Things not to do with your 600-pound tiger

[shereads]

Don't let it escape in a South Florida suburb, where after a day-long hunt and an attempt to dart it with a tranquilizer, your pet tiger is shot to death by an apparently panicked law enforcement officer who may or may not have been threatened by it.

Also, part of the state is on fire.

 

[damppanties]

I want to meet that little man inside your head.

 

[cantdog]

Lovely Florida

Do you smell smoke? It can be very disconcerting, to say the least.

We were at camp one day when the smell of forest fire filled everything, all day. Thin, diluted smoke lay over the lake surface like fog.

And our camp has no telephone, lights, or any road in to it, even.

I crossed the water and drove to Lincoln for news. The smell and the fog/smoke came and went in intensity, but never actually cleared completely, the whole trip in to town.

The word was, a couple of thousand acres of Canada, Quebec, was burning. The actual fire was hundreds of miles off. I drove and canoed back and relieved everyone's mind, but I can tell you, you do not want to smell it like that. Hackles rise. Worries set in. You
have to be downwind! You wouldn't smell it if you weren't downwind!

 

[shereads]

The little man doesn't come out on command. Didn't you learn anything from watching "The Three Faces of Eve?"

Cant, I'm at least twenty miles from the fires, and when the wind shifted this afternoon, the house was thick with smoke even with all the windows closed.

 

[Guest]

I think a person who keeps a tiger as a 'pet' (outside of owning their own genuine jungle) should be shot.

Perdita

 

[cantdog]

Anyone who sees a shrink ought to have his head examined.

 

[shereads]

He's a former Tarzan. Seriously.

I know it's stupid and irresponsible, but I couldn't help feelng sorry for him when I saw the footage of the two of them, ex-Tarzan and tiger, rolling around together like a kid with a kitten - and then heard the news that "Bobo" had been killed.

Bobo? What kind of name is Bobo for a Bengal tiger?

 

[Guest]

Bobo should have been the owner's name.

firmly, P.

 

[doormouse]

I want to meet that little man inside your head.

That's such a clever idea for a tag dp.

(going to read about the garden boy now...) ;-)

 

[SnoopDog]

Don't let it escape in a South Florida suburb, where after a day-long hunt and an attempt to dart it with a tranquilizer, your pet tiger is shot to death by an apparently panicked law enforcement officer who may or may not have been threatened by it.

Also, part of the state is on fire.

I just hope you never ask this question to Roy from Siegfreid & Roy

Snoopy

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Things not to do with your 600-pound tiger

I just hope you never ask this question to Roy from Siegfreid & Roy

Snoopy

If only all wishes were so easily granted.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

*cries* Poor little tigey-wigey!

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

He's a former Tarzan. Seriously...

Obviously, the man lost the gig because he couldn't keep his geography straight.

http://www.123spot.com/images/tigers/tgr27.jpg


Tarzan lives in Africa, while tigers live in Asia, mostly in the Indochina subcontinent.

(Discounting zoos, circuses, Vegas acts, and potential lunatics volunteering to become Tiger Noshes & Bites, live, on the hoof.)



http://www.tiger.to/g/pug.jpg Please note, the All for Tigers page has an URL linking to a Missing Kid site.

Be warned!

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

SHEESH!

Are those Miami cops NEVER satisfied?


Woman Who Offered Pig as Tiger Bait Faces Charge

Fri Jul 16, 2004

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida woman who offered up a Yorkshire pig as bait to entice an escaped tiger back home will face charges of animal cruelty, local newspapers reported on Thursday.

Linda Meredith, of Loxahatchee where "Bobo" the tiger was killed by wildlife officers on Tuesday in a shooting his owner labeled a "murder," is being punished for putting the piglet in a car trunk, an official told the Palm Beach Post.

"I was appalled," said Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve. "Carrying an animal in a trunk in 90-degree (32 degrees Celsius) heat, where it's probably 140 degrees (60 degrees Celsius) inside, is not acceptable."

Meredith had urged sheriff's deputies to hold the piglet by its hind legs or twist its ears to make it squeal and attract Bobo, who spent 24 hours as a fugitive after escaping from former B movie Tarzan actor Steve Sipek's home, 50 miles north of Miami. The deputies declined to use the pig.

Meredith said she also was outraged to find out she could face animal cruelty charges.

"I can't believe they have the gall," she told the Palm Beach Post. "I was just trying to help the tiger find his way back home. Apparently, it's not nice to be nice."

Meredith said that the trunk of her Cadillac was air conditioned and that she had planned to eat the pig anyway once it had grown up.

Wildlife officers had hoped to shoot Bobo, a 600-pound (270-kg), six-year-old Bengal tiger, with tranquilizer darts to end his dash for freedom. But he was killed by an officer armed with an M4 rifle after he said the big cat lunged at him.

Sipek, who played Tarzan in two movies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who has a permit to keep exotic animals as pets, decried the shooting as unnecessary. Covered in the blood of the cat he raised since it was a cub, Sipek has given a string of TV interviews saying Bobo's death was plain murder.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been inundated with hate mail and phone calls from distraught cat lovers, and supporters have set up a Web site to collect donations to help Sipek protect his other animals -- another tiger, two lions, a black leopard and a cougar.

Neither Sauve nor Meredith could be reached for comment.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.

 

[Clare Quilty]

I think a person who keeps a tiger as a 'pet' (outside of owning their own genuine jungle) should be shot.

Perdita

There was a family in western Canada who used to have a website, where you could see streaming video of their 500 pound siberian house tiger. The children of this woefully stupid couple, never gave the tigress a moment's peace.

 

[shereads]

Meredith had urged sheriff's deputies to hold the piglet by its hind legs or twist its ears to make it squeal and attract Bobo, who spent 24 hours as a fugitive after escaping from former B movie Tarzan actor Steve Sipek's home, 50 miles north of Miami. The deputies declined to use the pig.

1) I'm appalled at her insensitivity

2) It's hard to fault her logic. What we allow to be done to animals in this country's insanely underregulated meat packing industry makes most of us guilty of worse things than holding a piglet by the hind legs to bait a tiger.

3) I'm sorry Bobo was shot. As much as I adore animals, I don't know what I would have done if I'd been alone with a 600-pound escaped Siberian tiger who had missed a few meals and started to approach me. But I can narrow it down, with a degree of certainty, to one of two words that start with "sh" and end with "t."




"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

~ From Babe, a movie to be enjoyed while not eating takeout from the Chinese place that makes your favorite babyback ribs.

 

[Somme]

Just open the fridge door and it'll come bounding 'ome.

 

[Alacrity Fitzhugh]

SHEESH!

Are those Miami cops NEVER satisfied?


Woman Who Offered Pig as Tiger Bait Faces Charge

Fri Jul 16, 2004

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida woman who offered up a Yorkshire pig as bait to entice an escaped tiger back home will face charges of animal cruelty, local newspapers reported on Thursday.

Linda Meredith, of Loxahatchee where "Bobo" the tiger was killed by wildlife officers on Tuesday in a shooting his owner labeled a "murder," is being punished for putting the piglet in a car trunk, an official told the Palm Beach Post.

"I was appalled," said Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve. "Carrying an animal in a trunk in 90-degree (32 degrees Celsius) heat, where it's probably 140 degrees (60 degrees Celsius) inside, is not acceptable."

Meredith had urged sheriff's deputies to hold the piglet by its hind legs or twist its ears to make it squeal and attract Bobo, who spent 24 hours as a fugitive after escaping from former B movie Tarzan actor Steve Sipek's home, 50 miles north of Miami. The deputies declined to use the pig.

Meredith said she also was outraged to find out she could face animal cruelty charges.

"I can't believe they have the gall," she told the Palm Beach Post. "I was just trying to help the tiger find his way back home. Apparently, it's not nice to be nice."

Meredith said that the trunk of her Cadillac was air conditioned and that she had planned to eat the pig anyway once it had grown up.

Wildlife officers had hoped to shoot Bobo, a 600-pound (270-kg), six-year-old Bengal tiger, with tranquilizer darts to end his dash for freedom. But he was killed by an officer armed with an M4 rifle after he said the big cat lunged at him.

Sipek, who played Tarzan in two movies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who has a permit to keep exotic animals as pets, decried the shooting as unnecessary. Covered in the blood of the cat he raised since it was a cub, Sipek has given a string of TV interviews saying Bobo's death was plain murder.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been inundated with hate mail and phone calls from distraught cat lovers, and supporters have set up a Web site to collect donations to help Sipek protect his other animals -- another tiger, two lions, a black leopard and a cougar.

Neither Sauve nor Meredith could be reached for comment.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.

Uh did I miss a page QUOTE The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been inundated with hate mail and phone calls from distraught cat lovers, and supporters UNQUOTE what about the little piggy? Aren't the piggy lovers distraught? How could she think of letting them twist the poor piggies ears to make him squeal? Everyones only thinking about the tiger. I'm gonna go eat some bacon and eggs and cry tears for poor piggies everywhere.

 

[doormouse]

<WEG>

I can think of better ways to make a pig squeal

And I'm talking the male species (runs real fast before they come pouncing)

 

[Alacrity Fitzhugh]

<WEG>

I can think of better ways to make a pig squeal

And I'm talking the male species (runs real fast before they come pouncing)

Oh, a pig hater huh? Just because you like mouses, or mice's, or mousse's, well you know what I mean. But think about the pigs, poor pigs are tortured, forced to live in pig sties, or styes, or hell the hell do you spell styies, forget it, you know what I mean. Think about the poor pigs out there, covered in slime and mud, forced to wallow in pig shit, and the cruel and unusual punishment of never getting to watch Porky Pig Cartoons. Oh the pain and sorrow!!! Well, you know what I mean.

 

[shereads]

I associate cartoon pigs with my first awareness of the existence of Bizarre Pop Culture. I don't know how old I was, just that there was a brand of bacon called 'Lays' and its commercials featured singing, dancing pigs who seemed to be celebrating the great taste of their flayed flesh.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

With every 12-piece bucket of KFC — 2 stale buns, 1 pint of stringy cole slaw, and 9 greasy pieces of pseudo chicken: 2 drumsticks (all stick, no drum) 3 wings, 1 backbone, a neck, a gizzard, and a suspicious-looking lump — you receive a complementary DVD of “Chicken Run”.

Take that, Subservient Chicken!

 

[Lisa Denton]

O.k., I'm bad, but heck this is a thread on an erotica site with a title "Things you shouldn't do with a 600 pound tiger" and so I can't believe nobody said it yet. "Here kitty, kitty, let me see that pretty tongue you got there."

 

[shereads]

O.k., I'm bad, but heck this is a thread on an erotica site with a title "Things you shouldn't do with a 600 pound tiger" and so I can't believe nobody said it yet. "Here kitty, kitty, let me see that pretty tongue you got there."

Beastiality is prohibited at Lit because domesticated animals rarely live past 18. I don't know how old Bobo was, but I wouldn't trust his tongue or any part of it.