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"The Ifaw estimates that up to 10,000 tigers are currently being kept as pets in basements and backyards across the US. In October, police in New York abseiled into a man's flat to remove a tiger and an alligator he had been keeping as pets." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3262187.stm[^] I foolishly thought "no way can that be true"... "I think if you're capable, financially property wise, and you want it - we're Americans, we live in a free country - then go get it!" says Larry. Spike [the Bengal Tiger] is one of an estimated 10,000 tigers kept by private citizens in America - that is more than remain in the wild. But what makes people get big cats as pets in the first place? Larry says it's mainly ego. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1927813.stm[^] " A US police sniper has accomplished a daring operation in an urban housing complex - sedating and removing a 350-pound (160 kg) Bengal tiger from a New York flat. When they arrived at the scene, they found a three-to-five-foot-long (1-1.5m) caiman alligator as well. "This is an only-in-New-York story," Commissioner Kelly said" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3166010.stm[^] I still find it amazing that more Tigers are held as pets in private residences - in the US of all places - than there are in the wild... How did they get them there? I'm guessing they are mostly bred for pets, but then I am also guessing you can't pick them up from your local pet shop? Do people not notice the owners standing in their doorways at night crying "here kitty kitty" while waiving half a gazel carcas above their heads?! I thought we had a problem with exotic wild cats being released after they became illegal to own, but this is just... :wtf: :omg: :eek:
David Wulff
I knew someone in college who was an avid herpetologist. He had a ~15 foot python, a cayman lizard (I think) , and a few other poisonous / dangerous / insane "pets". What he couldn't get legally, he would get through a network of like minded people.
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When I was still at school we were offered either a white lion or a cheetah cub as a pet. It was all systems go until my mother came up with some wierd excuse about feeding it... so unreasonable... :rolleyes: Seriously though, think how cool it would have been for a loner geek to walk onto her highschool grounds with a lion on a leash :cool:
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Meg's World - Blog Photography - The product of my passionMegan Forbes wrote: Seriously though, think how cool it would have been for a loner geek to walk onto her highschool grounds with a lion on a leash Somehow, I *can* imagine you doing that. :~ Vikram.
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I knew someone in college who was an avid herpetologist. He had a ~15 foot python, a cayman lizard (I think) , and a few other poisonous / dangerous / insane "pets". What he couldn't get legally, he would get through a network of like minded people.
People like that are decidedly weird. We used to have LAN parties over at a friends house. His mom ran an animal shelter from their home. Not for cats, dogs, rabbits or abandoned hamsters. No, that is what they would have fed half the animals she kept (actually they bred rabbits in the backyard for Foo, their pet anaconda, one of three rather large snakes they had.). I remember coming over to his house one day. His mom dragged me into the bathroom, told me to strip down to my shorts and, no not what you are thinking, grab the tail of Foo. They were giving it a bath and it took three of us and some tranquilizers to keep the thing in the tub. I had both my hands around it, my fingers barely touching each other. From that day on I phoned him up before I came over to make sure it was not Foo's bath day. No wonder the guy never brought girls home. She would have found snapping turtles in the pool, tarantulas in the lounge, anacondas in the bathroom and iguanas in his bedroom. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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"The Ifaw estimates that up to 10,000 tigers are currently being kept as pets in basements and backyards across the US. In October, police in New York abseiled into a man's flat to remove a tiger and an alligator he had been keeping as pets." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3262187.stm[^] I foolishly thought "no way can that be true"... "I think if you're capable, financially property wise, and you want it - we're Americans, we live in a free country - then go get it!" says Larry. Spike [the Bengal Tiger] is one of an estimated 10,000 tigers kept by private citizens in America - that is more than remain in the wild. But what makes people get big cats as pets in the first place? Larry says it's mainly ego. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1927813.stm[^] " A US police sniper has accomplished a daring operation in an urban housing complex - sedating and removing a 350-pound (160 kg) Bengal tiger from a New York flat. When they arrived at the scene, they found a three-to-five-foot-long (1-1.5m) caiman alligator as well. "This is an only-in-New-York story," Commissioner Kelly said" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3166010.stm[^] I still find it amazing that more Tigers are held as pets in private residences - in the US of all places - than there are in the wild... How did they get them there? I'm guessing they are mostly bred for pets, but then I am also guessing you can't pick them up from your local pet shop? Do people not notice the owners standing in their doorways at night crying "here kitty kitty" while waiving half a gazel carcas above their heads?! I thought we had a problem with exotic wild cats being released after they became illegal to own, but this is just... :wtf: :omg: :eek:
David Wulff
I know a lady who owns a mountain lion, several African Cervals (not quite sure how you spell that),a lemur and a couple of bobcats as well. You would be amazed at how affectionate those cats are towards her. Anyone else however is a different story....haha. But they pretty much have their own house in the backyard that is kept at a constant temperature throughout the year.(Upstate New York can be cold in the winter.) The thing is it is perfectly legal for to keep these animals because she has some sort of license. The cats aren't disabled in anyway or anything, they are perfectly healthy and hand raised. They are amazing animals, but I must say that I wouldn't want one as a pet.
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People like that are decidedly weird. We used to have LAN parties over at a friends house. His mom ran an animal shelter from their home. Not for cats, dogs, rabbits or abandoned hamsters. No, that is what they would have fed half the animals she kept (actually they bred rabbits in the backyard for Foo, their pet anaconda, one of three rather large snakes they had.). I remember coming over to his house one day. His mom dragged me into the bathroom, told me to strip down to my shorts and, no not what you are thinking, grab the tail of Foo. They were giving it a bath and it took three of us and some tranquilizers to keep the thing in the tub. I had both my hands around it, my fingers barely touching each other. From that day on I phoned him up before I came over to make sure it was not Foo's bath day. No wonder the guy never brought girls home. She would have found snapping turtles in the pool, tarantulas in the lounge, anacondas in the bathroom and iguanas in his bedroom. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: From that day on I phoned him up before I came over to make sure it was not Foo's bath day. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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I know a lady who owns a mountain lion, several African Cervals (not quite sure how you spell that),a lemur and a couple of bobcats as well. You would be amazed at how affectionate those cats are towards her. Anyone else however is a different story....haha. But they pretty much have their own house in the backyard that is kept at a constant temperature throughout the year.(Upstate New York can be cold in the winter.) The thing is it is perfectly legal for to keep these animals because she has some sort of license. The cats aren't disabled in anyway or anything, they are perfectly healthy and hand raised. They are amazing animals, but I must say that I wouldn't want one as a pet.
Wow, I never heard of anyone having a serval for a pet before. I've read that civets make decent pets, but anything else is asking for trouble in my opinion. The thing is, there's no reason to keep these animals as pets. I think it entails a destruction of the wild animals' dignity, although I'm sure the animals involved don't have an opinion one way or the other. :) People that keep wild animals as pets probably sometimes do it because they think the animals are beautiful, but in my experience it's more often because they wanna seem exotic themselves, the same way that "gangstas" often keep Rottweilers and pit bulls because they wanna be known as badasses. (Bazidasses?) It's really stupid. You can't buy style, but I guess it's easy to fool some people. Regards, Jeff Varszegi
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People like that are decidedly weird. We used to have LAN parties over at a friends house. His mom ran an animal shelter from their home. Not for cats, dogs, rabbits or abandoned hamsters. No, that is what they would have fed half the animals she kept (actually they bred rabbits in the backyard for Foo, their pet anaconda, one of three rather large snakes they had.). I remember coming over to his house one day. His mom dragged me into the bathroom, told me to strip down to my shorts and, no not what you are thinking, grab the tail of Foo. They were giving it a bath and it took three of us and some tranquilizers to keep the thing in the tub. I had both my hands around it, my fingers barely touching each other. From that day on I phoned him up before I came over to make sure it was not Foo's bath day. No wonder the guy never brought girls home. She would have found snapping turtles in the pool, tarantulas in the lounge, anacondas in the bathroom and iguanas in his bedroom. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
What is a LAN party? I used to think it's something where people play games on the LAN. :-O But... :-O Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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What is a LAN party? I used to think it's something where people play games on the LAN. :-O But... :-O Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Not. Seven uber geeks who have no girlfriends and no lives get together at a mates house for four or five days of all out battle. C&C, Duke Nukem 3D, StarCraft, Quake etc. We would bring sleeping bags, mattresses ("go to the mattresses"), our PCs, cabling and tons of junk food. I would spend a day hating kinked cables, broken terminators and stupid IP conflicts that DOS had trouble resolving. The rest would stay out of my way while I did that and patched everyones systems while deleting the invisible skin and triple damage ION cannon strike hacks that half the daft buggers thought they could get past me. A few days later those still able to walk would stumble home and pass out for a few days of z's. Coffee, coke, pizza and those 5 foot high packets of chips (that tasted like polestyrene but were dead cheap) were what we survived on. We were pretty nuts actually. Once did not sleep for three days, was just totally wired on caffeine and played like a demon. Must have taken a decade off my life I reckon. Ahh, to be young and stupid again. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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People like that are decidedly weird. We used to have LAN parties over at a friends house. His mom ran an animal shelter from their home. Not for cats, dogs, rabbits or abandoned hamsters. No, that is what they would have fed half the animals she kept (actually they bred rabbits in the backyard for Foo, their pet anaconda, one of three rather large snakes they had.). I remember coming over to his house one day. His mom dragged me into the bathroom, told me to strip down to my shorts and, no not what you are thinking, grab the tail of Foo. They were giving it a bath and it took three of us and some tranquilizers to keep the thing in the tub. I had both my hands around it, my fingers barely touching each other. From that day on I phoned him up before I came over to make sure it was not Foo's bath day. No wonder the guy never brought girls home. She would have found snapping turtles in the pool, tarantulas in the lounge, anacondas in the bathroom and iguanas in his bedroom. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
That is one wierd tale !! Regardz Colin J Davies
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That is one wierd tale !! Regardz Colin J Davies
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This could be addictive
**The minion's version of "Catch :bob: "It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
LOL, I could just imagine you having a ball at that house Colin. You would get on with the mad mother what with your leaping from helicopters and wrestling kangaroos and all. More often than was reasonable my friend would be late for school because Foo or Nuck Futz (the iguana) had gone AWOL and he had to canvas the neighbourhood making sure they did not get up to mischief. You would see the mom driving their beat up booger green Peugout 504 station wagon around the block as he walked in front trying to find these animals. The SPCA and cops did not approve of her but hell, when someone reported a rare and dangerous animal on the loose they would hit the speed dial for her. Heh, we ended our friendship badly but looking back it was Interesting Times. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Megan Forbes wrote: Seriously though, think how cool it would have been for a loner geek to walk onto her highschool grounds with a lion on a leash Somehow, I *can* imagine you doing that. :~ Vikram.
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