Amira Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 A friend of mine told me today that the neighborhood I moved from last week has a tiger living in one of the homes. Apparently it escaped yesterday. Now I feel kind of cheated that I didn't know about it when we lived there. The tiger has been returned to its home. That seems to be an incomplete response to its escape, but whatever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I guess if your pet tiger walks up to the door and growls at you to open it, you open it. :D 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Here kitty, kitty . . . . 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 My grandpa had a mountain lion. Not relevant to the story, but it's cool so be impressed. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I bet those people ALWAYS bought from the meat guys that have the freezer in the back of their pickup truck. Except I know you didn't live in the US, so maybe not. Too bad, though. What size laser pointer do you think the owners have to keep a cat that big happy? 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 What size laser pointer do you think the owners have to keep a cat that big happy? Are you kidding? That would destroy the house! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 My grandpa had a mountain lion. Not relevant to the story, but it's cool so be impressed. I am very impressed -- and envious, too! That's so cool! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 My father's last girlfriend had a pet linx. It was creepy and always looking like it wanted to eat my son when he was a toddler. Happily the linx did not get to eat him. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 We used to live behind people who had a bear and an African Lion. It was decidedly uncool. ETA--that link does not make it crystal clear that this man is now dead. As was his young hired hand care taker, who was killed by the bear. Also, his lion used to get loose and walk down the road. Like, on a regular basis. And in any case, listening to the lot of them roar at night (or in the daytime) is not a comfortable feeling. It was unconscionable on every level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livetoread Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 An old boyfriend was sitting in his car in a residential neighborhood one evening. He looked up to see a fully grown tiger staring at him with its face right up to the window. He yelped, but then the tiger's owner peered in and told him not to worry, the tiger was leashed and just out for its walk.😳 And no, ex-boyfriend did not do drugs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 I generally have a lot of problems with owning exotic pets. I personally can't see the point, but even more, it's really difficult to provide a good environment for a wild animal (even one that's claimed to be "tame.") But you also only hear about the problems. I have no idea how many exotic animals permits are even out there. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I think I would be glad that the tiger didn't escape until after you had moved. Esp.. if your children spent any time outdoors. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 I think I would be glad that the tiger didn't escape until after you had moved. Esp.. if your children spent any time outdoors. Apparently the situation has been resolved and the tiger no longer lives in the neighborhood. It was an eight-month-old cub and it escaped at night so it wasn't a real threat to anyone at that point, but I am glad for all of my neighbors that it doesn't live there anymore. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 No one can handle a tiger, a bear or a lion well (read: humanely and safely) on a residential lot forever. No one. They are giant, intelligent, **territorial** carnivores/pretty darn good at killing omnivores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 We have a lynx mom and baby living in the trees in the empty lot next door. Wild animals should never be kept as pets and even if a tiger is raised from a cub by humans it is still a wild animal. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I find keeping exotic big cats to be extremely cruel. On that basis alone I would not be happy with it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Going to pull out our DVD of "Bringing up Baby"! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 My dad's girlfriend had a lot of exotic pets and most of them came to a bad end at some point. None of them lived long happy lives. It is wrong to keep exotic pets IMO. Animals have habitats for a reason. In Costa Rica I went to a zoo where all the amimals had been captured from the wild and the scream that one of the panthers made was unnerving. The poor things was livid at living indoors. It had been captured four years ago and was still mad. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 A tiger is never a safe animal. I walked through this zoo every day for four years and day after day the tigers were having their photos taken with people. No one seemed to think anything of it. And then a little girl died. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-03/29/content_839171.htm 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scbusf Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 The house I grew up in - our next-door neighbors had a cougar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 And who could forget the great tiger escape a few years back in the San Francisco Zoo? Anyone who ever watched a cat claw its way up a backyard fence should have known that that enclosure would not really contain that tiger. It was obvious, but remained that porous and dangerous for 65 years before this incident. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2011/02/tiger-maul-teens-san-francisco-zoo-provoked-report.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Jessica* Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 We live near a former animal sanctuary that was shut down for “repeat deficiencies related to housing and care of the animals.†They had 12 tigers, 3 lions, 3 bears, and 2 wolves. In inadequate cages. Our community is seriously lucky that they didn't escape and kill someone. At least your local escape was a cub? There's some comfort in that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 My thing is that if you can't tell the difference between the safety of keeping a tiger vs a house cat, a wolf vs a beagle, or a ball python vs a king cobra, you really shouldn't be keeping pets. It just seems like there is a logical limit to what kind of animal in any given class that can be safely kept as a pet by most individuals and facilities-and that the tigers, wolves, and king cobras should be left for the trained experts and specialized facilities. (As far as I know, there is still an escaped king cobra not far from where my nieces live in Orlando. I'm just praying it's found and recaptured before it hurts anyone. It's not the snake's fault it's in Florida-but it's still a very, very venomous, large reptile in a highly populated city-and one where if you want to see reptiles, you can visit Reptile World, several zoos within a fairly short drive, Animal Kingdom, or Gatorland). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 People are idiots. They think that because a housecat looks just like a tiny tiger, that tigers must be okay to have as pets too. They forget the ten thousand or more years of domestication that went into keeping that tiny tiger from slaughtering us all in our sleep. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Yikes! Some animals are not meant to be pets!! Probably not a good idea to have a tiger as one 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 A friend of mine told me today that the neighborhood I moved from last week has a tiger living in one of the homes. Apparently it escaped yesterday. Now I feel kind of cheated that I didn't know about it when we lived there. The tiger has been returned to its home. That seems to be an incomplete response to its escape, but whatever. If they had Rodents of Unusual Size, owning a tiger is preferable to firebombing the neighborhood. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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