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Date Posted: 10/ 7/03 9:20am
Author: Jessie
Subject: Any wild animal ...
In reply to: pat 's message, "Re: O/T "We'll return you to 'Crouching Tiger, Screaming Sigfried and Roy' in just a moment..."" on 10/ 4/03 3:13pm

Is basically a loaded weapon in a game of russian roulette. "Training" takes out a few bullets but there's still more than that left. (my animal behaviour prof's example but it works. probably that's why he was the professor ;) And Jack Hannah used a similar analogy on the news last night so I guess it's a popular one ).

What that tiger did - grab by the neck, drag - is basically the textbook example of how a tiger attacks its prey. Spot on.

Hope Roy'll be okay. Even more hopefully they'll do the smart thing in this case and get the tiger to a nice place where it can live without having humans having extensive direct contact - a zoo or a wildlife preserve. They are a gorgeous - and unfortunately quite rare - species. Just gotta remember that they're also years of predator instinct under many pounds of pure muscle with sharp pointy bits ;)

(which is the same reason why everytime someone notices my interest in wolves and asks 'want one as a pet?' I look at them as if they're mad. mad I say.)

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