Posted on 05/12/2007 8:29:57 PM PDT by Omega Man II
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. :*(
How many people have to be killed by their "pets" before people realize that wild animals are ..... wild?
He was frightened and he felt faint and he tried to say an act of contrition and he remembered how it started but before he had said, as fast as he could, “Oh, my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee who art worthy of all my love and I firmly resolve ... ,” he felt too faint and he was lying face down on the floor and it was over very quickly. A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.— Hemingway, The Capital of the World.
-—More than anything my heart goes out to the tiger.-—
Would she be willing to pay for counseling for the tiger, I wonder?
No thanks, I think I'll stand over here.
Hopefully the children got refunds or free day-passes or something...
Is it even Sunday the 13th there yet?
Here's your Oscar for best performance standing and waiting.
More to the point, why don't people respect that a CAT is a CAT? About the only difference between a housecat and the tiger is size. My little housecat would have mauled me to death in a snit ten times over if she was as big as a tiger. *sigh*
A cat is a cat. Declawing them -- amputating the last joint of their fingers, so to speak -- is just nasty. I'll stick with my mini-cougar, thank you very much. She gets feisty, but her claws are a LOT smaller and I'm a LOT bigger.
These animals are 500-700 lbs, immensely powerful, with 2” long claws and 1-1.5” teeth and are super-predators, the very top of the food chain. One swat of their massive paws or a bite from their powerful jaws can tear a human to shreds easily. Their instincts are to dominate their domain and to kill for food. Too many people that try to interact with and domesticate these magnificent animals and others like them end up mauled or dead. They are tempting God by putting themselves in harm’s way on purpose.
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.
If any zoo kept tigers in a cage that small they would be denounced for cruelty.
Yeah, the tiger must be feeling quite distraught. Well maybe he can plead insanity/s;)
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They’ll do that quicker than an Aztec priest.
Hopefully the children got refunds or free day-passes or something...
Was it an “Evil” petting zoo?
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