Hey,...it isn't just me. Look what SabanFan did to them... http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19654 :rofl: Look at the date.
Here is a small article about the PETA comments. LSU will do what they want and these PETA people are idiots. http://www.nola.com/sportsflash/lsu...-12/1179842050172940.xml&storylist=lsu_sports
i agree with them. keep that amazing animal prisoner. for what? the jollies of football fans that pass by for 2 minutes a few times a year. boy that's real important. at least the cage isnt pathetic anymore.
nope. i hate peta, but i agree with them here. i hate seeing such a majestic animal have to live neutered for no good purpose. at least zoos educate.
so you're saying, that LSU's $3 million, 15,000 square feet habitat is not sufficent for an endangered tiger that has been born in captivity and doesn't know what the wild is but at the same time, preserving a species and letting a tiger pretty much double his life and have all the resources to be healthy and happy. It would be cruel not to help out a get a new tiger. I learned about tigers mainly because I loved mike. here is something that might ease your mind though. http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/043/mike.html It's important to note that the Tigers LSU have had were all born in captivity and not taken from the wild. So the couldn't survive in the wild. Mike was also a valuable education tool for the study and conservation of big cats. LSU has one of the best vet schools and I can't help but credit that to all the mike in the past.
So do universities, obviously. They aren't going to capture a wild tiger and imprison him. A zoo cub is going to be spared life in a small cage for life in one of the best Tiger habitats in the nation.
Wow! Surprises me that anyone who loves animals/advocates humane treatment, etc. would have any issues with a Tiger being kept/adored in such an awesome facility and so well taken care of. I've always felt that extremist animal rights people were a bubble off and I'm a person who lets my pets/livestock want for nothing. To beat the rain, I just left my father, who I'm sitting with, to go get some alfalfa hay to bring to a nurse goat we have penned up to graft two kids (Goats) to so I'm not the black-hearted type.
