Shombay the lion accepts treatment
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Shombay is treated with subcutaneous fluids. He accepts the treatment voluntarily. This fluid gives him a normal life despite his kidney disease. His trainer, Alec Young spent months building a rapport with Shombay until the lion accepted the needle and fluids. Video courtesy of the Reid Park Zoo.
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Shombay, Reid Park Zoo's 7-year-old male lion, went into kidney failure almost two years ago and was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease.
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