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Tiger advocate mauled to death by pet ( Canada )
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| January 11, 2010
Posted on 01/11/2010 6:48:35 PM PST by george76
A Canadian man has been mauled to death by a 295-kilogram tiger after winning a lengthy legal battle for the right to keep exotic pets...
Norman Buwalda, 66, was found dead in the tiger's pen on his property in rural Ontario ...
"He had gone in to feed the tiger and possibly had been attacked," Mr Carlson said, indicating there were no witnesses.
Mr Buwalda had also kept two lions and a cougar, police said.
In 2004, a tiger attack on a 10-year-old boy visiting the property sparked a ban on keeping wild animals as pets.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Hobbies; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; attack; badkitty; canada; cougar; g79; kittyping; lions; maul; napl; tiger; tigerattack
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:48:39 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:51:11 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
To: george76
“...He had gone in to feed the tiger and possibly had been attacked...”
He just didn’t realize that he was the feed.
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:51:13 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Pharmboy
>>Definition of irony?<<
Pretty much. Up there with that “Grizzly whisperer” who got mauled to death.
These animals are wild and it is hubris (in this case mortally so) to believe we can change them through any amount of “love.”
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:54:16 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: george76
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:54:26 PM PST
by
Ronin
To: george76
Be careful what you wish for. RIP.
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:57:12 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: george76
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posted on
01/11/2010 6:59:43 PM PST
by
PilotDave
(America; nice while it lasted... I miss it already.)
To: george76
>Norman Buwalda, 66, was found dead in the tiger’s pen on his property in rural Ontario
Found dead?? PC translation: tiger found with pieces of his owner inside the pen.
To: Pharmboy; jazusamo; fanfan; proud_yank; GladesGuru; girlangler; tubebender
For one last time, he fed the tiger.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:01:09 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: freedumb2003
Up there with that “Grizzly whisperer” who got mauled to death. These animals are wild and it is hubris (in this case mortally so) to believe we can change them through any amount of “love.” Defending the Grizzly Whisperer (GW) has become a hobby of mine. Doing so on FR is like tilting at windmills, but hey, we've all got to have a hobby.
I've always been very impressed with GW because he actually figured out how to communicate with grizzlies in the wild. Okay, okay, in the end they ate him. But that's just a detail. For many years, and hundreds of separate times, he proved that it was possible to communicate with them and get accepted to the point where they'd let him hang out with them. From a scientific standpoint, that is an astounding discovery.
Magellan never made it around the whole world. Drake vanished. But they were on to something big, and so was GW. He was not a Darwin Award - he gave back big time to our knowledge of the natural world.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:04:45 PM PST
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: george76
He had gone in to feed the tiger Mission accomplished.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:04:45 PM PST
by
earlJam
To: max americana
Do tigers dig human burgerbits?
THEY’RE GRRRREATTTTTT!!
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:09:09 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
To: george76
From the sound of Norman and his backyard zoo I’d say he was darned lucky to make it 66. When the 10 year old boy was attacked it should have been the end of those animals at his place.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:13:42 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: elcid1970
Some time you get the tiger and some time the tiger, etc, etc....
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:14:54 PM PST
by
Recon Dad
( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 83)
To: Ronin
I was wondering about this headline. I figured after the 6th or 7th girlfriend there wouldn’t have been many Tiger advocates around.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:21:31 PM PST
by
21twelve
To: george76
Norman Buwalda, 66, was found dead in the tiger's pen on his property in rural Ontario Sounds like poor Norman was Bewitched, Bothered, and Buwalda.
To: george76
There was no question the tiger definitely was fed.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:47:16 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: PGR88
possibly had been attacked...” Wow. That's one sharp coroner.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:51:17 PM PST
by
LouAvul
To: LouAvul
Wow. That's one sharp coroner.
Socialized Medicine scores another one.
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posted on
01/11/2010 8:00:34 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: george76
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posted on
01/11/2010 8:02:01 PM PST
by
Moltke
(DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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