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Tatiana the Tiger or: How did she get out?
Dec 27, 2007 | 7:29 AM
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According to the news a Siberian tiger named Tatiana somehow got out of her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoological Park and on Christmas Day near closing time she attacked and killed one zoo goer and mauled two others. And the authorities are scratching their heads trying to figure out how she managed a 20 foot lateral leap and a 25 foot vertical jump all at once to get free of her specially designed-to-be-escapeproof enclosure.

Now the cops nailed poor Tatiana and she paid for the sin of being a tiger with her life. And the cops have designated her enclosure a crime scene because they figure she couldn't get outta there without human assistance. After all, she's only a dumb animal, right?

HELLO! Official types! Didn't you or your guide dogs notice the trees growing from her enclosure right up the side to nearly the top of the wall? Didn't any of your miniscule minds contain the information that tigers can climb? Hmmmmm, maybe what that zoo needs is fewer human keepers and more animal ones. Any prey animal could tell you that CATS CAN CLIMB! And would never have planted TREES, fer goshsakes, in a cat enclosure and then let them grow that high.

SHEEESH! In that whole report I couldn't find enough working brain cells to fill a walnut shell.

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unklehenry read my blog
Dec 27, 2007 | 7:50 AM

Agree, Anne ... we'll hear more about this ... loved a comment by one of the officers involved ... "..... then we re-engaged the animal .... " ....... that phony terminology should be reserved for those of their own kind.
terrellmom read my blog view my photos
Dec 27, 2007 | 7:54 AM

The officials keep saying that the change of the tiger getting out was minimal. It should bave been impossible for the tiger to get out, as in NO chance at all. Even if the teens were messing with her, she should not have been able to get out of her enclosure. I understand the need for zoos and we all love them but it is kind of cruel to the animals at times. In some cases zoos are the only thing keeping an animal from becoming extinct but then there are those animals that should be in the wild.
junecleaver read my blog view my photos
Dec 27, 2007 | 8:34 AM

The Siberian tiger is endangered. Police & others ought to be better trained in the handling of an escape. Tigers are highly intelligent animals. I keep wondering what the boys were doing to her that caused her to become angry. If there were trees that the tiger could climb, then that was the zoo's fault. However, I believe that they should have shot her with a tranquilizer gun instead of bullets. She paid for human stupidity with her life, just as most animals do. Also, the public needs to be better educated in the characteristics & traits of various species. Too many people view & treat animals as playthings, to be agitated, hurt, & annoyed. I feel terrible for the boy's family, however I still wonder what he & his friends were doing to the tiger that caused it to say, "That does it". I have sat quietly near cat enclosures at the zoo & have had no trouble. Zoos even post signs telling people how to behave around the animals & that if they're caught mistreating an animal, they can be evicted from the zoo.
terrellmom read my blog view my photos
Dec 27, 2007 | 9:30 AM

you're so right june. i feel horrible for the teen who died and his family. but the tiger is an animal and was doing what nature tells it to do. people need to realize that animals must be treated with respect. not sure whose fault it is but it's a tragedy for the humans as well as the tiger.
Onyx read my blog view my photos
Dec 27, 2007 | 9:47 AM

I love big cats, always have. It is unfortunate that the boy was killed and the tiger had to be put down, but that animal is WILD and should be left in the wild in its own habitat. I am all for saving endangered species, but I do not like zoos. I think the entire concept is cruel.

Animals should be free in their own Wild Kingdom. Not on display for us to stand there gawking and pointing and grinning and taunting. So far, I haven't had the opportunity to see wildlife roaming free, but something deep inside of me churns when I watch them in cages. It's not amusing to me.
texcitizen read my blog
Dec 27, 2007 | 12:50 PM

Now there is also an angle suggesting that the teenagers taunted the tiger, thus provoking the big cat to attack them. IF this theory proves to be the cause, then I can only say that these teenagers deserved what they got. NEVER antagonize wild animals! Maybe these KIDS thought that these animals in the zoo are like Disney animals that they can think like human beings. HELLO !
texcitizen read my blog
Dec 27, 2007 | 12:53 PM

Darn the Siberian tiger is an endangered animal, on the brink of extinction. These teenagers are not!
furbie read my blog view my photos
Dec 27, 2007 | 1:15 PM

texcitizen - I'm beginning to think that teenagers with brains ARE extinct !
texcitizen read my blog
Dec 27, 2007 | 2:23 PM

Furbie teenagers with brains are RARE and they are vanishing quickly because they are now outnumbered by moronic ones
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