Comments on: Captive Exotic Cats and Public Safety… The Numbers Don’t Lie !!…

By: fornetti

fornetti — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:48:58 +0000

I do not believe this

By: Gloria

Gloria — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:19:35 +0000

Ardeth, don’t you realize that members of extreme Animal Rights Activists Groups who have become disallusioned with how far (too far) they will go have admitted to the fact that they raise these animals themselves and then let them loose or even kill then so they can point fingers at “real” owners? This is happening all over the country. Read up!

By: AmyR

AmyR — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:52:01 +0000

We have someone in our area that said to be quite adept at ‘finding’ reptiles turned loose by irresponsible owners to further his agenda- which is apparently ego and recognition because there always seems to be a friend with a camera close by….hmmmm. I’m sure they’re (the animals) sacrifice is rationalized as to the good of the cause by many of these extremist- many of them don’t even care what they do to fellow human beings in the name of the ’cause’. Yes, the jury is still out and likely to remain that way since most of this type of ‘case’ goes unsolved. If someone were to have a tiger as a pet I’m sure other than just the owner would know about it and the truth would come out eventually. However, if you have many and claim that good ole superior ’sanctuary’ status no one would bat an eye if one of many were no longer there huh? Who is really in charge of the head count anyway…hmm again.

By: J. Lewis

J. Lewis — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:02:50 +0000

So because there may be an irresponsible owner somewhere we should punish everyone who owns a tiger or one of thousands of other species of exotic animals? Anyone who has worked with exotics for any length of time will tell you that the activists are known for dumping dead animals and even cutting cages/fences to allow live ones to ‘escape.’ This is especially true right after a major media flurry or just before a vote. It’s all part of the plan to ban everyone from owning anything that does not conform to the activist definition of a pet. I will believe this animal was killed by an irresponsible owner when he is caught and convicted. In the meantime….the jury is still out.

By: timbalionguy

timbalionguy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:18:10 +0000

Ardeth, you are making a common mistake here, of believing everything the media tells you. What makes you think this was really someone’s pet? Lets reason this through. If you had a pet tiger you couldn’t care for, what would you do with it? If you did decide to shoot it, chances are you would want to give it a decent burial or cremation. Even if had become a handful, or a problem, you would certainly want to dispose of it properly. The last thing you would want to do is create more problem for yourself. So, disposing of the tiger along a major roadway would only serve to bring attention to its existence. So, lets assume here that someone wanted to have a dead ‘pet’ tiger noticed, like a certain sanctuary owner in Texas who wants to make everyone who owns a big cat look like an idiot. So, this person shoots one of their tigers, puts a collar on it, and dumps it along an interstate. Of course, this is done just after a major tiger incident somewhere else, to try and accentuate the negative image of tiger owners. Also consider that this particular sanctuary owner is strongly suspected of having done this before. So, who is the real coward here? It is the person who murdered this tiger simply to make all tiger owners look bad.

By: ardeth

ardeth — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:44:08 +0000

Unless I missed something, Rexano, you haven’t said anything about that young, dead, declawed tiger found on a Texas highway, also on Christmas day. This poor animal was obviously someone’s pet and had become too much to handle, and so the idiot owner couldn’t think of anything better to do than shoot the tiger, wrap him in a tarp, throw him out of a car, and then make a cowardly anonymous call to police informing them about it. This, to me, represents the human-centric, self-absorbed mentality of people who get off on imprisoning wild animals.