Half-blind sanctuary owner hand feeds his 14 big cats - including a 700lb Siberian tiger

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | October 27, 2014 | Jenny Awford

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wouldn’t want to be his neighbor. Big Cats + Florida Sun = Stench.

[CatherineofAragon]

Such beautiful cats.

If I had it to do over, I would love to work with them...not in a situation where they’re made out to be “pets”, no. It only takes a second for a terrible accident to happen. When a house cat wants to play, it scratches your leg. A big cat may want to play and take your leg right off.

[RichInOC]

[looking at his hands]

…5…6…7…8…9…10.

I guess it’s not necessarily true that if your housecat were that size he’d eat you. At least not right away. Or all at once.

[Envisioning]

Cat piss on that scale must be like tear gas

LOL. No doubt.

For those who don't want to go to the link. What could possibly go wrong? Big kitty (((ping)))

[Will88]

700 pounds? Didn't realize tigers got that big. Would have guessed they were just 300 to 400 pound kitties.

[Inyo-Mono]

Tigers are the largest cats in the World. The average African Lion weighs around 450 pounds and Tigers are much larger.

[Lx]

This looks like the big kitteh is tenderizing him...

[SZonian]

Wow! That is a really big cat...

[Redcitizen]

I’d say something about their size but the cat got my tongue.

[Starstruck]

Carl Bovard, the other white meat.

[cynwoody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRqkW2jkF0

[Stoat]

THANK YOU cynwoody and everyone else for all of your great posts!  I found a bit of additional info on Carl Bovard and his sanctuary among the YouTube comments in the link that cynwoody graciously provided.  This comment is from  Carmen Wiggins and is in response to a generic, foul-mouthed anti-American comment:

Sid, Carl lives two doors down from me and the ENTIRE reason he does what he does is because he wants to fuel peoples passions for big cats.  He has many, many more variety of cats at his place including leopards and cheetahs, bobcats, panthers and a few smaller kinds I cannot recall the name of.  He also has two bears,  alligators,  lemurs, and breeds of squirrels, raccoons,  a wallaby, and I am absolutely sure I have forgotten some.  These are not just pets, many are rescues from foolish people who had more money than sense or the animals were abused.  If it was not for places like Single Vision most of these animals would be put down.  They were NOT ripped from the jungles, all of these animals were born in captivity. You will never meet a bigger animal lover than Carl.  I will not say to you what you said to Americans but you really should walk a mile in someones shoes before judging...  

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(Stoat comment)  I admire his passion and what he's done, but I also wonder what's going to happen to all of these beautiful animals after he's been killed or horribly maimed?  Will the State then come in and put some or all of them down? 

Hopefully his tremendous passion extends to dealing with the ramifications of likely scenarios and his animals will be allowed to continue living where they are, perhaps with different and slightly less 'hands on' caretakers.  Such a shame that the Daily Mail article didn't address such obvious questions.

Single Vision doesn't have a fully functional website up yet, but here's where it will be when they get it done:

Single Vision, Inc. - Coming Soon!

[Daffynition]

The greatest evaaaaaaaaaah.

[Slings and Arrows]

I believe in freedom. Briefly and incompletely, he is free to keep the cats, and I am free to think him grossly reckless for the manner in which he does so.

[Slings and Arrows]

Richard Gere was interested until he found out that the trainer was Gunther Gebel-Williams.

[Stoat]

Agreed.

[Daffynition]

LOL That's deep.

[trisham]

Beautiful!