Good Eye I saw it under the table now-that made me laught
Well, here in Brazil people joke that the state of Paraná (where the city of Maringá is located) is the "Brazilian Russia". They say a lot of strange things such as this family raising a tiger happen there, so I think you have a point hehe
Here's the thing about having "exotic" animals as pets.....you may be able to get them yo like YOU, but they could express their natural instincts around others they don't know. They will never be like owning a cat or a dog.
I admire this family's dedication to animals and agree with their cause in some respects. But the fact is, even if an animal's instincts appear to have "gone dormant", they will always be there and can flare up at almost any time even when you don't realize what provoked them until it's too late. In some cases, we never know, but there is always a cause. You can certainly train behavior, but there is no training DNA. Of course, I'm sure science could someday be advanced enough to genetically alter them to not attack humans, but that in itself would open up a whole other can of "playing God" controversy. I'm not saying we should always fear and distance ourselves from anything stronger or bigger than us, quite the opposite. Society should work to give most animals their best chance at a good life and be able to have a peaceful, loving relationship (to an extent) with them as the majestic, intelligent beings they are. My point is, there are some tides in nature you CANNOT swim against, and trying to do so anyway regardless of potential consequence is a dangerous example to set for others.
I agree. I love Tigers, and I think it's admirable that they're trying to protect these beautiful, endangered animals. However, I do not agree with them having 7 Tigers as pets. You can NEVER get rid of an animal's instinct. Domesticated animals even still have natural instinct in them. The reason why they don't attack people though, is because it took hundreds of years of specific breeding and working with the animals to get where we are today with cats, dogs, horses, etc. So they can try to make these tiger's instincts become "dormant," but no matter how hard they try, it won't work. It just takes too long of time to domesticate a species of animal from wild to tame on the level that they desire.
Yeah, I feel the same to an extent about pit bulls. I've seen cases of pits who were raised by loving owners and never faced adversity in their life, but for some reason one random day went and killed a child. By the same token, I've seen pits who grew up in dog fighting rings, knowing only violence, yet strangely went on to live and later die as affectionate pets without a single incident. Just as you can't judge people based on race, genes, or nationality as the same, I would apply that same logic to most pits. To simply annihilate the entire breed, as extremists suggest, will start us down a path eliminating anything that could threaten us until we're eventually all alone or miserable. If we preach love and tolerance amongst ourselves, we should set that same example for animals. Otherwise, we're just dictating what lives or dies on a global level, essentially usurping the balance of nature, which I don't agree is something any species should have absolute control over, even humans. In the end, maybe it comes down to individual cases rather than labeling the whole based upon the majority? I don't know, but I do know there's a BIG difference between a specifically bred dog with varying behavior vs a wild jungle cat created over centuries of evolution.
The sad thing, when a tiger just has a bad day and takes it out on one of the people and ends up killing that person (through no fault of its own), it's the tiger that has to be subsequently put down. These people are so ARROGANT to think that they can actually control these gorgeous PREDATORS.
Living With Tigers: Family Share Home With Pet Tigers
