Posted on 12/27/2007 6:35:20 AM PST by fignewton
San Francisco police are investigating the possibility that one of the victims in the fatal tiger mauling on Christmas Day climbed over a waist-high fence and then dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of a moat that kept the big cat away from the public, sources close to the investigation said Wednesday.
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Actually, it does not come as a shock to me. From what I have read and heard, the cat was being taunted. And it is a shame a beautiful cat has to be put down because it decided it was going to get the last laugh.
I don't feel sorry for the alleged hulligans. I don't think its funny when animals are tortured (Mike Vick should have gotten 5-10 years). However, I draw the line when an idiot on this forum espouses that the youths should have been shot. your "out of the gene pool" comment makes me wonder about you as well. As a parent, I'd hate to think that an indiscretion would cost someone's son his life. Its not like the kid raped a girl, knocked over a bank, or murdered someone. From all indications, he was teasing a tiger. Dumb - yes. Should it result in a death sentence - no.
Wonder all you want,I already made my mind up about your comments.You feel sympathy for them, I feel sorry for a animal that was provoked by your beloved “hooligans”.As the commercial used to say “past performance is indicative of future results”.Riiighhhttt, they had such bright futures ahead of them,..now they can move on to the elderly and children in the neighborhood. Once their scars are healed nicely.
It's up to human beings to keep our true nature (as food animals for tigers) secret from them. Once they know it's all over and we must destroy them.
Just like Water Buffalo, not all humans are frail and weak. Some are the big bulls that are deadly to the big cats.
Some humans are in control of the cat due to the cat's innate understanding of self-preservation. Some humans are food to the cat due to the cat's innate perception of weakness or illness.
The cat doesn't need to be put down once it comes in contact with a weak or sick human. It needs to be isolated from those humans and controlled by the big bulls.
These weak and sick kids lured the cat out and the cat did what cats do. It killed one weak and sick human and attacked a couple of others. Then a big bull human came and killed the cat.
Not all tigers are man eaters. Man eating tigers should not be kept for a zoo.
Note to self: never let kids stay at Fawn’s Infestatorium.
Cats are not automatons. They are smarter than their game. You cannot ever afford to let a big cat know that you are not their “mother” but instead are just food.
when the hunting is easy they'll stalk and kill until they have a larder-load of meat.
In fact, in cool climates and up in the mountains all cats regularly store up food in a tree or burrow. In hot climates they take fresh game up into a tree for "ripening". Meanwhile they go about their business of stalking and hunting.
Then they eat.
It's not like they are mind-numbed glutons.
Yes—I already told my 9 year old about the attack, and didn’t follow any of those tips, really—my 9 year old has recently received a ton of scratches across his face from pissing off our family cat, and I let him know that this will be his future fate as a 19 year old punk (the tiger attack and death) if he keeps up his bad habit of teasing animals. . .
I feel bad for the tiger.
Tigers are an endangered species. Morons are plentiful.
And Morons out breed tigers 1000000 to 1.
It is most definitely the fault of people that the tiger had to be put down. On that I'm sure we both agree.
You first...
And your comment shows you have no sense of humor. Gallows humor, specifically. It is absurd to see people blaming the tiger, which is a born killer and carnivore. If these youths provoked the attack and some else got injured they would now be facing serious charges.
Some "mistake".
I think the zoo has to explain how this happened. But I also think these guys were up to no good. A tiger in a zoo is not to be taunted . If you taunt it you may die if it can get you. Seems pretty simple IMHO. Hope a lesson is learned here.
Millions of people probably walked by that enclosure and saw the tiger safely.
The boys were attacked because at least one went over the barrier and they teased the tiger. It was likely able to escape the enclosure before, just didn’t because it was fairly content and the enclosure was the tiger’s territory. The tiger was young, healthy, athletic, and they invaded its territory and made it angry enough to get radical on them.
Siberian tigers are an endangered species. That might have violated the Endangered Species Act.
For animals in the wild I would agree. A tiger or mountain lion or a bear that discovers that humans are tasty and crunchy and good with ketchup is going to continue to be an increasing threat. I wouldn't necessarily think that it must be the same for those in captivity.
October 1988: Tinkerbelle attacks animal health technician Gail Hedberg, who was treating the elephant for an abscess on its cheek. The elephant knocks the technician down and does a headstand on her. Hedberg suffers a crushed pelvis.
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