More: I guess a lot of people you've already heard but Charles the lion dog was misunderstood as a lion that escaped from the zoo and Norfolk Virginia. He was on CNN Anderson Cooper Good Morning America Inside Edition and the rest is history. Couple things a lot of people might not know about Charles he loves to visit nursing homes and he knows the feeling of each person in there somehow and reacts to that way he does not have any enemies and he is the sweetest dog ever.