Cops seek owner of abandoned cub

Dutch police were on Sunday seeking the owners of a small lion cub found abandoned in a cage in a field outside the central city of Utrecht.

“[On Sunday] we received quite an extraordinary message: ‘a witness has found a mini-lion in a cage in a pasture’,” police said on their Facebook page.

“When we arrived at the scene, we discovered a lion cub in a cage. It seems to have been abandoned,” the police said, estimating the little feline to be about four months old.

The cub was first spotted by a jogger near the small village of Tienhoven, about 10km north of Utrecht.

The cub was taken for examination by a veterinarian, and then to the Lion Foundation in northern Netherlands. –