[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.

[GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco]

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.