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"Honey, the hyenas are on the sofa again!”

Photos of a guy named Hassan Shwaykani, playing with his pet hyenas at his home. The pictures show him and his wife lovingly enjoying the hyenas. But while the captions do say he is a hunter of dangerous animals, they don’t say how the decision to keep them indoors instead of in an outdoor “hyena house” seems to be working out. For instance, how many other Mrs. Shwaykanis have there been? Do the hyenas mind being hit on the snout with a rolled-up magazine when they misbehave? Are any of Shwaykani’s limbs artificial? And does the word “stay” mean the same thing to hyenas that it does to my dogs, which is to say, nothing at all?