Dr Chris Brown bitten by lion on stage
TV CELEBRITY vet Dr Chris Brown has revealed he was bitten by a lion on set of his new TV show Vet Gone Wild. The 39-year-old opened up about what he was doing before the animal snapped.
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TELEVISION vet Chris Brown has detailed the time he was bitten by a wild lion.
Announcing his new TV show, Vet Gone Wild, the former star of Bondi Vet revealed he copped an incisor tooth through his hand when trying to treat a lion in Africa.
“I got bitten by a lion at one stage in Africa,” he told Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa breakfast show.
Brown, 39, explained that the incident occurred when trying to treat the lion for a tumour, which was caused by eating horse meat.
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“A lot of these things are caused by humans so it seems right to help them out,” he said. “The way you dart them is you put out a dead animal and they come in looking for a cheap feed. It is like the free ticket to the buffet. They’re eating the dead animal and from a hidden position you dart them in the backside and then they fall asleep in their meal like they’ve had a few too many.”
He continued: “It is imprecise how asleep they really are when you first walk up to them. Using a high tech broom stick you walk in and stick the broom stick in their ear and if they twitch, then they are not asleep enough and you have to give them another shot. If their ear doesn’t twitch then it is safe enough to move them. So we moved this lion but before we could actually stick the tube down its throat to give it an anaesthetic, you’ve got to get the meat out it has been eating so you have to stick your hand right down its throat.”
It was then that the lion bit Brown.
“I started pulling the meat out and must have hit a sensitive spot and as I did that, it clenches down and its whole incisor tooth went straight through my hand and my arm.”
Vet Gone Wild is an Animal Planet show produced out of the United States.
It will see Brown travelling to exotic locations, including Costa Rica, South Africa and Namibia, treating animals in what he calls “extreme house calls essentially where there is no house”.
“Over the years I have established some pretty good contacts in the animal world,” he said. “Legitimately the first episode is in Thailand and it is an elephant that had trouble giving birth. It came out but then it wouldn’t produce milk. You arrive in these countries with very little gear because you are not sure what animal you are going to be treating so you have to put it together on the fly. It is a little bit McGyver. It is a little bit adventure.”
