Turns out some festive decorations make purr-fect toys! Locals are dropping off old and unsold trees at Linton Zoo in Cambridgeshire, giving the large cats new scratch poles and sources of heat.
Christmas is anything but over for these playful lions.
The big cats at Linton Zoo in Cambridgeshire, England, have been given old trees to play with as a post-festive present, reports the BBC.Bosses say the evergreen conifers are "like catnip" to the ferocious felines. Adorable footage shows the deadly animals using the needles as a gigantic scratch pole.
Zoo staff are also using the trees to keep the animals warm, by putting them in the zoo's bio-burner
Zoo director Kim Simmons said local residents and nurseries had been dropping off their old and unsold trees at the popular tourist attraction."We've already had quite a few trees coming in, which are giving the lions hours of fun," she told the Telegraph.
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