Rajab Butt, a Pakistani YouTube video maker, received the miniature lion as a wedding gift last month from a guy named Umar Dolla, who manages the YouTube channel Lion Hub.

He attempted to argue that, despite giving away the lion’s cub, he was still the animal’s owner, but a judge found that Butt had seized the unlawful cat and therefore became the new owner of the cub.

Butt, who has over five million followers on the video-sharing platform, was issued a community service order, which requires him to create and broadcast an animal welfare film that is at least five minutes long every month for the next year.

The goal is to teach his audience about animal welfare, and by the end, he’ll have produced more than an hour’s worth of video.

Butt said in a statement that he regretted retaining the lion cub and that ‘having wild creatures in such conditions is unacceptable.'”.

He stated, “As a social media influencer, I should provide good stuff. I set a bad example by not retaining the lion cub.

Pakistan’s wildlife authorities will assist Butt with his film production efforts.

The YouTuber was reported to the police when a wildlife officer saw one of Butt’s videos, which showed him receiving the lion cub as a wedding gift.

Butt stated that he would now ‘perform community service using my social media channels and disseminate a positive message about the rights of wild animals.’.

Tariq Janjua, director of the Lahore Safari Zoo, where the lion cub currently resides, stated that lions could not be tamed; therefore, keeping them as pets was both cruel to the animal and extremely harmful to humans.

To see how deadly attempting to domesticate lions can be, go no farther than the ‘Lion Man,’ Leon van Biljon, who reared three lion pups as his ‘children.'”.

He used to sleep in their enclosure as a youngster, but one day in 2019, the 70-year-old walked inside to repair the fence that kept the now-adult lions confined.

Turning his back on the animals he’d reared since they were cubs, one pounced on him and locked its jaws around his neck; when others came, they discovered the guy drenched in his own blood, with the lions around his body.

Rescuers had to shoot the lions to reach van Biljon’s body, but it was too late; he had died.