Posted on 05/12/2007 8:29:57 PM PDT by Omega Man II
To put it succinctly: don't @#$% with a tiger!
"Tyger, tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
He would have ripped her heart out and ate it if he had been able to.
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Actually, all ownership including zoos, etc ought to be banned for any animals which are not currently domesticated. I can’t even go to zoo anymore, the animals are all miserable even in the best of conditions.
Medical research? Well, we have plenty of murderers in jail who owe society something. Let ‘em volunteer, if there aren’t enough voluinteers, volunteer ‘em.
As for the assclowns who put those kids within striking distance of those tigers, death by boola-boola.
“The tiger must have slashed a femoral artery or something?”
Well, an answer to that question would be INFORMATION, some thing this article lacks. Good to know the poor woman got to chat with her fiance and that several of their children were present.
Absolutely one of the worst pieces of news writing I can remember reading.
May the poor deceased rest in peace.
Seriously, selective breeding has caused domesticated dogs and cats to stay at a "puppy" or "kitten" stage indefinitely. Grown dog behavior is much like that of wolf cubs in the wild. Cats are less problematic because they're smaller, but they still have arrested development compared to the big cats.
That's also why tiger and wolf cubs are "cute" and tractable until they mature sexually, then become dangerous.
Liberal Utopian dreams that the Lion shall lay down with the Lamb.
Predator animals occupy a world so alien to Liberal human beings that they would likely die from shock if they got just a momentary true glimpse of it.
Ask Canadian Freeper Kanawa, who had to kill a full sized Black Bear that was stalking him, with his hunting knife last summer, to defend his own life and that of his dog.
This woman died needlessly and stupidly. A Waste. Darwin award. The children present there will never have such delusions.Too bad they had to see it, and were not suitably educated about predatory animals. Perhaps one could have prevented this tragedy.
In the modern zoos many of the animals seem to be doing well by any objective standard -- good health, glossy coats, bright eyes, active and curious. I'm not certain that wild animals recollect or long for the "great outdoors" - where of course many would die an early, prolonged, and miserable death due to disease or poaching. Particularly in third world countries where agriculture and development bring them into direct conflict with humans.
In fact, zoos (and the better circuses) have played an important role in preserving the gene pool for endangered wild animals.
If you were a hunter perhaps you would understand the true cruelty of zoos.
One visit to a long term prison for violent offenders, and you would be shivering in your boots just after walking through such a place. Its much worse for predatory animals than for predatory humans.
The world is just like that. Animals eat other animals, with a delight which most humans see as abject cruelty.
Put yourself in that world with a liberal vacant smile and your feather duster. If you are not just about the fastest 100 meter sprinter in the world, you would simply be dead meat.
A predators burp would be the only footnote to your life , in the natural order of things.
Such is the world of fang and claw, and as humans, we deserve no part in it without understanding that.
Zoos preserve nothing. They are black holes of suffering imposed on animals and the natural order. Show me one where there has not been tragedy and death. You can't.
Look at the people who refuse to believe that certain breeds of dogs can't be trusted and snap and that they are NOT family dogs....
Sorry about the woman but Darwin frowned upon her and that was that.
Darwin's frown kills at 3000 meters.
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