Reclaiming lions is always such a frustrating experience. Today I realized I overlooked my sub male last night, and he was a heavily dressed lion with a pile of expensive decors. Now that I reclaimed him, all the decors were removed. This always drives me nuts way more than paying the reclaim fee.

Some time ago I also overlooked two of my lionesses while feeding and playing with them all, and consequently they left the pride. To my horror I realized these lionesses happened to be two of my favorites, and as such they were heavily dressed with all sorts of event decors. In fact, their dressups were some of my best.

With this, once I reclaimed them I got both lionesses back completely bare. No words can express how frustrated and annoyed I was over this because I didn't remember exactly which decors I had on them, and also because this is incredibly infuriating in a game where decors have limited usage. Thanks to this inconvenience, all those expensive event decors and both backgrounds had one use wasted away.

Here's my suggestion:
I understand the point of this system, it's supposed to return your decors and backgrounds so they aren't lost with the lion once the reclaiming time is up. However, when a neglected lion that leaves the pride has decors/background, it's more than likely that it's a lion the player cares about and WILL claim back. In a game where decors have limited uses, it would make far more sense for the decors to be returned only when the reclaiming time runs out. This way if the player really doesn't mind losing the lion, they will still get the items back... and at the same time, those who do care about the lion will have it returned with its outfit untouched.