# Check out this whackadoodle apprentice program **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943 "2013-11-27T19:13:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/21 "2013-11-28T03:37:39Z")
Well, well, well… Bhagavan Antle, Director of T.I.G.E.R.S.: “one of the most notorious exploiters of tiger cubs in the country.” > **[Doc Antle AKA Bhagavan Antle](https://911animalabuse.com/antle-bhagavan-doc/)** > > Doc Antle AKA Bhagavan Antle ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/22 "2013-11-28T03:37:42Z")
What fucking flakes - I don’t care if you are a navel watching vegan bunny hugger olympic class athlete, if a tiger decides you are a snack, you are a snack. They really need to get their heads out of their asses and just admit they are nuts and you need to be just as nuts to apply. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/23 "2013-11-28T03:43:47Z")
I’ll do it! Except I don’t like tigers much. Can I be in charge of the ducks instead? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/24 "2013-11-28T04:10:30Z")
Nope. You get the monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/25 "2013-11-28T04:38:37Z")
It is highly concerning to me that these people are in charge of wild animals. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/26 "2013-11-28T16:00:36Z")
They make you watch “Kill Bill 2” before you can apply :eek: ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/27 "2013-11-28T16:23:57Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/28 "2013-11-28T17:59:39Z")
Well, it still sounds like more fun, and better hours and better pay, than working as a personal assistant for Naomi Campbell. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/29 "2013-11-28T20:06:16Z")
Less chance of being disemboweled, too. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/30 "2013-11-28T20:27:25Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > It is highly concerning to me that these people are in charge of wild animals. It is highly concerning to me that these people cannot write a web page without spelling mistakes and typos. They do not seem to have great concern for details. They might forget to lock the tiger’s cage… ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/31 "2013-11-28T22:24:51Z")
He comes off like an egotistical conman that wants a patsy slave willing to jump through all kinds of insane humiliating hoops for the chance to work with big cats. The sad thing is that there are probably some people so desperate to do this he will have more than enough applicants. Beyond this there’s the oddness that after all these exacting specifications about this superhuman slave he wants to attend his big cat rodeo he can’t even be bothered to spell check his list of requirements. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/32 "2013-11-28T22:49:25Z")
All that to be an apprentice tigerkeeper? Bah. Maybe to be a journeyman **liger** keeper, but hell no for this. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/33 "2013-11-28T22:51:34Z")
This _cannot_ be a legal apprenticeship program, can it? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/34 "2013-11-28T23:01:20Z")
They don’t actually say what you’re apprenticing to _become_, other than a more experienced person who handles tigers in their shows. It’s not like you’re going to get a veterenarian’s certificate, or a degree of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/35 "2013-11-29T02:26:53Z")
Fucking whacko cult. IMVHO. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/36 "2013-11-29T02:57:22Z")
Heck, I can _walk_ a twelve-minute mile. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943/37 "2013-11-29T03:22:53Z")
It’s not that far from exploiting animals to exploiting people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-whackadoodle-apprentice-program/674943.md?page=1)