Tiger and Piglets.

• Julie
  June 2nd, 2006 at 11:48 am

  Hey, this is a tourist gimmick and the animals live in horrible living conditions. I received an e-mail similiar to this: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_tiger_and_piglets.htm

  Check out these sites: http://www.awionline.org/pubs/quarterly/05%5F54%5F1/541p1011.htm
  http://www.bornfree.org.uk/zoocheck/zcnews040501.shtml

• Loopy Loo
  June 2nd, 2006 at 12:19 pm

  Too cute!

• Alex
  June 3rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm

  That is sad, Julie. Thanks for the links!

• Loopy Loo
  June 3rd, 2006 at 4:07 pm

  ok, well now i feel like an idiot for writing ‘Too cute!’ i didn’t see the comment and links Julie had posted.

• Katster
  October 10th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

  Loopy Loo - you are NOT an idiot. It IS cute and it is not a bad thing. It is good that all these animals are happy together! It does not matter if tourists happen to like seeing cross-species, that is a GOOD thing. It enables the zoo to better care for the animals.. And, if I may risk being a bit sentimental, maybe it suggests that we, humans, might be able to get along a bit more, despite differences…

  Not sure why Julie is so critical about this situation, everyone is safe and happy. There are a lot of unhappy endings to animal stories… maybe she should devout her studies toward those… like the millions of cats and dogs put down in this BIG FAT SELFISH country of ours.

  There is nothing wrong with finding this story cute or enchanting, because it is both. You are just a tender-hearted sweet animal lover.. and that is NOT IDIOT!!!

• The Dude
  February 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 am

  Kaster, If you would do a bit more of research you would find out that these cute tigers are put to sleep and sold in China for their body parts in traditional medicine. These people do comemrcial breeding while the wild counterparts of these tigers will become extinct within the first half of this century. The other tigers in the zoo balance on ropes and get beaten if they don’t.

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