Atlanta issuffering from an infestation of tigers. (For urban tigers, one counts as an infestation.)
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the suburbs of Atlanta.
PETA is remarkably sedate here. I would think they would’ve complained that the police should’ve offered hugs instead.
And now there’s a dachshund with an ego the size of a St. Bernard, if it didn’t already have one.
Poor lonely wandering bewildered predator. Although its predation skills can’t have been very sharp if it couldn’t take down a mere dachshund.
Somehow I doubt its owner will be coming forward to claim the corpse.
Tigers should be left striped, as Nature intended. Spots are for leopards. :mad:
Though death befell the escapee,
At least it rhymes with ‘symmetry’.
Calvin is gonna be pissed!
Who’s afraid of a cute li’l orange-and-black pussycat?
A tiger is just big pussy that eats you.
You are a goddamn genius.
Owner came forward; it was an escaped former performing tiger from Ringling Brothers, who was being transported from Florida to Tennessee to begin its new life as a performer in a German circus. Transport company states they have no idea how it got loose.
Welp, I was wrong – the owner has come forward. Turns out six-year-old Suzy, a circus tiger, somehow escaped during an overnight stop in transport from Tampa, Florida to Memphis, Tennessee.
CNN story (warning: autoplay)
IMO the tiger should have been sent to a sanctuary where it could have lived its life out in comfort. I don’t know if death might have been preferable.
At first no one was really concerned until one exceptionally bright University of GA fan realized that they don’t play Auburn until November…
While it’s sad that a tiger died, the fact is that captive tigers are a dime a dozen. Or rather, that you can’t even give them away. Big cats breed well in captivity and produce several cubs. The reason tigers are endangered is that there isn’t enough wild habitat for them, not because each individual tiger is a precious jewel.
Captive big cats are very expensive to house and feed and care for, and there are a lot of them, so every place that can care for captive big cats already has as many as they can handle. Just like in the wild, the limiting factor is habitat for captive big cats.
Last week I was sent on a call for a possible baby lion in someone’s front yard. Turned out to be a fox but it’s the thought that counts.
One of my favorite pieces of correspondence from the ancient world involved a lion in an attic. (Full book PDF here–this letter is on page 118.)
Yeah, those belong in wardrobes
What a country!
I can assure you he already had it. That is a feature of The Dachshund.