Beware! There’s a lion at home

Aleksandr and Maria Dmitriev a young couple from Penza Russia have been living with a mountain lion in their tiny onebedroom apartment for the past three years Messi is a threeyearold cougar In the wild it is considered an apex predator but Messi was born in a petting zoo and has spent most of his life as a house cat so he basically behaves like an overgrown cat for nowMessi the domesticated cougar tied to a leash like any ordinary pet Aleksandr Dmitriev cuddling MessiThe Dmitrievs are aware that Messi is a predator that will at some point test their strength to establish who is in charge of the house but they have taken steps to keep his wild side in check Aleksandr and Maria both trained psychologists have always loved cats Their hairless Sphynx Kira had always been enough for them but in 2018 when they heard that a newborn cougar cub at the local petting zoo in Penza was in serious need of medical attention they couldnrsquot just sit byMessi the cougar with Maria DmitrievSince the animals at the zoo live in small enclosures they decided to give this ill cub a better chance at life So they decided to buy him and were surprised when the petting zoo actually accepted They brought Messi home and managed to nurse him back to health but it didnrsquot take long for them to realise that if they wanted to keep him they had to make some adjustments around their homeMessi is seen sitting comfortably in his new homeAleksandr and Maria converted the hallway of the apartment into the felinersquos headquarters lining the walls with bamboo panels which are better suited to withstand its sharp talons and can easily be replaced The big cat has gained a huge following on social mediaIs this the greenest building yetGeorgia Techrsquos Kendeda building has been certified as a lsquoliving buildingrsquoA Building in Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech does more good for the natural environment than harm The Kendeda building has proved over a year of operation that it meets the standards of the International Living Future Institute In the building therersquos no conventional flushing with the toilets consuming only a teaspoon of water per use And the waste is composted in digesters in the basementThe building does not have conventional air conditioning and mostly relies on dehumidifying the humid air making it more comfortable and less sticky Finally there is a piping system that can pump cold water through concrete floors to cool the building if it gets above 78 degrees Fahrenheit ldquoKendedarsquos goal was not really to build a building Our goal was to be a catalyst for changing how buildings should be designedrdquo said the foundationrsquos sustainability advisor Dennis CreechGodzilla shark from New Mexico gets a nameA 300millionyearold Godzilla shark discovered in New Mexico in 2013 is finally named Dracopristis hoffmanorum or Hoffmanrsquos Dragon Shark by discoverer JohnPaul Hodnett He was a graduate student when he unearthed the first fossils of the shark The sharkrsquos teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species The shark is named in honour of the New Mexico family that owns the land where the fossils were foundGoats pigs are passengers on a Chinese trainBizarre new video shows pigs goats and sheep strolling the aisles of a train in China coexisting peacefully with regular riders The lowspeed traintrip takes nine hours to traverse Sichuan Province allowing rural farmers to load their livestock and sell them both on the train and other places in the cityCreature stuck in tree is a croissantA woman in Krakow Poland had quite a fright when she saw a bizarre looking animal that had been hanging in the lilac tree outside her home for a few days The woman called for help When the officers showed up at the scene they realised that the animal in question was a croissant according to a Facebook post by the Krakow Animal Welfare SocietyCreative director turns homeless man into modelAli Olakunmi a young homeless Yoruba man from Nigeriarsquos Osun State was sleeping under the same bridge that creative director Afolabi chose as the backdrop for a fashion shoot Since Olakunmi had the features he was looking for in a model he approached Ali overnight changing his fortunesKpop artistersquos bangs are turning headsA member of a popular South Korean Kpop group has been getting a lot of attention because of his unusual hairstylemdashlong bangs that completely covers the upper half of his face including his eyes Junji is one of the seven members of OnlyOneOf an allmale Kpop group founded in 2019Hersquos easy to identify among his bandmates as hersquos the one with the face half covered with long blonde bangs Hersquos been sporting the bizarre hairstyle since January 2020 and has managed to generate quite a lot of buzz in South Korean entertainment business because of itThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its 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