[pillut48]

The tiger must have slashed a femoral artery or something?
Don’t know what it will take for people to stop treating these wild animals like housecats. :*(

[Dumpster Baby]

"The use of exotic animals in entertainment is simply playing with fire"

How many people have to be killed by their "pets" before people realize that wild animals are ..... wild?

[claudiustg]

-—More than anything my heart goes out to the tiger.-—

Would she be willing to pay for counseling for the tiger, I wonder?

[Charles Henrickson]

PAT WILDE

No thanks, I think I'll stand over here.

[SteveMcKing]

Hopefully the children got refunds or free day-passes or something...

[babygene]

Is it even Sunday the 13th there yet?

[Fairview]

Poor foolish lady. You have to question the wisdom of anyone who is so trusting of genuinely savage animals. Or the wisdom of anyone who is so hippy-ish as to name her children Dakota Dumstrey-Soos and Kodiak Dumstrey-Soos.

Those children! It’s impossible to imagine the emotional pain of young kids who saw such a horror. Prayers for their peace and comfort.

[this is my name not yours]

PAT WILDE? Grrrrrrrreat!

[The Red Zone]

"The tigers are being kept in 12-foot square (3.6 metres square) chain-link enclosures with a mere padlock on the enclosure. The animals' owner had admitted to walking the tigers, his kids feed them," she said.

If any zoo kept tigers in a cage that small they would be denounced for cruelty.

[Daralundy]

ping

[hole_n_one]

From the Siberian Magic's website..........

[fortunecookie]

'Pet' tiger mauls woman to death

What are people thinking? They're not called 'wild' animals for nothing. After hearing about Roy's (of Siegfried and Roy) mauling by a 'pet' tiger, with all their training and years of experience at 'handling' wild animals, you think there would be fewer 'pet' tigers. It's sad, but not entirely unpredictable, to hear of her mauling death.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Another Bad Kitty ping

[Jeff Chandler]

a bizarre, freak accident involving a tiger named Gangus.

Not really all that bizarre or freakish, or even an accident for that matter. It was a tiger, after all.

[CarrotAndStick]

Was this the woman?

[KarlInOhio]

My arm! It hurts where the tiger’s biting it!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"The tigers are being kept in 12-foot square (3.6 metres square) chain-link enclosures with a mere padlock on the enclosure. The animals' owner had admitted to walking the tigers, his kids feed them," she said.

These are extremely powerful predators that patrol territories of many square miles every day in the wild. Take a large, dangerous predator whose nature compels him to roam a large territory, stick him in a 12-foot enclosure certain to stress him to his limits and then try to treat him like he's your pet cat - yeah, that's going to work out.

I'm very much against government interference in the lives of private citizens, but this is one case where government should be involved - unless an individual or a private corporation can show proof that they are capable of keeping such rare wild animals in conditions that aren't destructive to the animals and in which the animals can't harm unsuspecting neighbors, ownership should be banned.

[DTogo]

Tanya Dumstrey-Soos spoke with her fiancé Kim Carlton, who owns the farm, by mobile phone as she lay dying.

Lesbian killed by man-eating pussy. The irony...

[Mila]

“The use of exotic animals in entertainment is simply playing with fire,” Moriarty said.”

Yes, you can take the animal out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the animal.

[hawkeye101]

I watched a show on Animal Planet a few years back, where they filmed a zoo with tigers, and the people who take care of them. These people had a remarkable close relationship with the tigers, but they also said these are still wild creatures with natural hunting instincts, that being raised in captivity does not modify those instincts. One of the tigers' keepers had his leg badly injured just by a tiger accidentally backing into this man. Tigers can weigh more than 4 times a grown man, and have a biting and clawing power so intense, they have killed a 15 foot crocodile in a matter of seconds (just search on youtube for tiger v. crocodile).

To put it succinctly: don't @#$% with a tiger!