Stupid humans and "cute" animals.

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There are more privately owned tigers in the US than there are wild tigers. That just blows my mind.

I saw a pair of tigers being fed at a zoo once. Holy fucking shit, Batman! They were fed what essentially looked like a giant hot dog. It was horse meat. Saying they ate the food would not begin to do it justice. It was more like they annihilated it. When the food was being loaded into a part of their enclosure they were cut off from, they were roaring so loud I could feel my bones vibrating. When the door to the female's side of the feeding area was released, She shot in there, leaped into the air and spun around in a 360 degree spin. She landed on her feet with the 7lb. horse hot dog in her mouth, having deftly snatched it off the elevated platform where it had been placed. The feeder said she weighed 450 pounds. Four hundred fifty pounds of muscle, claws and teeth with effortless speed and the grace of a ballerina.

I have a hard time understanding how a person's survival instinct doesn't kick in and rebel at the thought of having an animal like this as a pet. You can pet and snuggle one like a big kitty but catch it at the wrong time... So a zebra? People do much worse.