Xanda

Name: Xanda
Born: 11th of September 2016, Ukraine
Arrived at Love Lions Alive sanctuary: 28th of April 2021
Tawny Male Lion
Lives with: Joy
Parents: Unknown

When we talk of Xanda, we don’t want to tell you of the horrors of his previous life, it doesn’t fit him. We feel that everything about Xanda says…”move on, don’t hold me down with negative thoughts, let me be everything I was meant to be and am”.

He started life in a miserable zoo, was rescued and then continued to live in a zoo. As one can imagine, he is not entirely sure about trusting anyone after this. Xanda, according to us, is a prince, a noble knight, but with a tussle haired roguishness about him that adds a youthful glint. If you meet Xanda, you will feel a sense of delight and want to be his “friend”.

Xanda lives with his sister, Joy. He is loving and chivalrous towards her and they are a happy pair. They bask in the sun, hold their heads into the wind, roll in wet grass and they leap through the rain.