Celebrities Who Got Bizarre Pets

Melanie Griffith and her lion

If you didn’t already know, Melanie Griffith is the daughter of Tippi Hedren. If you don’t know who Tippi Hedren is, then you might know her as the woman who had a deep and intense love for lions! Yes, the actress was introduced to these big cats while in the height of her career, and soon welcomed them into her home where she could raise them as her own. What’s so unusual about this – apart from the fact that most people don’t have lions as pets – is that she was also raising her daughter, Melanie Griffith in the same house. Because of this, Melanie grew up around these animals, and once noted that a lion by the name of Neil was her best friend.