They don't have negative connotations until they eat your leg, but they don't eat a…

Traditional sign of sovereignty and power. Trying to imitate the cowardly lion on Wizard of…

Like gargoyles. The City of Pasadena wants to identify itself with something powerful and beautiful.

Somebody was a Leo! (Leos look out for other Leos)

In oriental culture, they are put in front of buildings as a symbol of protection.

They’re familiar but exotified by the environment.

They are part of the environment.

They were important at the time but contemporaneously they’ve become lost because of technology.

They are invisible until they bite your leg off.

They are desensitized on the building.