Posted on 08/19/2005 6:47:26 AM PDT by Undertow
While it is very sad that the young woman lost her life, it is also sad that the tiger lost it's life. A tiger is a born furocious killer. Plucking it from it's natural habitat and placing it in captivity will not erase what mother nature intended it for. Killing the tiger was unnecessary. And before anyone says it, I am NOT a liberal animal rights activist!...lol
Yeah, I'm getting some piranha fish for the pool this weekend, the kids will love it.
"Bad Kitty!"
Idiots just won't learn...
"WHOOPS?"
Ugh...wild animals are wild animals. I won't even do the swimming with dolphins thing. Those are big evil animals ;)
You might be able to convince me too pose with a tiger cub (actually i think it might be fun). At least when he goes crazy he won't be able to eat me in one gulp or eviscerate me in one "playful" swat.
I wouldn't call you one, it's just plain old common sense.
yea, whats next sending your daughter who just graduated from HS to Aruba for a week. Then teaching her not to go make out with boys she doesn't know on the beach?
"While it is very sad that the young woman lost her life, it is also sad that the tiger lost it's life. A tiger is a born furocious killer. Plucking it from it's natural habitat and placing it in captivity will not erase what mother nature intended it for. Killing the tiger was unnecessary."
I totally agree. That tiger was killed for doing what comes instinctively. People do stupid, risky things and then destroy the animals when they react naturally. You can take the tiger out of the wild, but you cannot take the wild out the tiger. Needless deaths. So sad, all the way around.
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Oh no! It appears that someone has kidnapped the kitty!
ACK!
The tiger should not have been killed.
Make sure and feed the tiger before you take the pictures.
Since the tiger was, unjustly I believe too, killed, they should just take the carcass to a taxidermist, have it stuffed, then use it for next years pictures. That makes sense to me.
Taxidermy is cool. Just ask Norman Bates...:)
I agree the tiger should not have been killed, however because of the particular tiger's actions, I feel additional pictures with John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Cindy S. and Micheal Moore should have been scheduled.
I would PAY to be allowed - every time the zoo has a litter, the news crew goes out & they get to play with them & they're just as cute as can be. But those are CUBS. Anybody who plays around with a full grown tiger is nuts. You'd think her folks would have seen at least one of the stories about Siegfred (or was it Roy?) that got all chewed up by a tiger he'd known for years, right there on stage.
This one was touch and go for a while:
This area of Kansas is in the middle of nowhere, USA. Greta isn't interested as it would pull her away from the lush paradise of Aruba.
re: tiger should not have been killed.
Amen!
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