Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 January 2010
20:0637218#1
Read this on the sky news bit when I came on here. A tiger in Ontario, Canada has killed it`s 66 year old owner. The usual thing we see now, not known yet whether it will be put down or not. With the subject of human execution on several posts here lately, perhaps we could have a politically correctness put on it, ie, the convicted child murderer will be put down, or put to sleep. We make pleasant sounding phrases when we wish to kill non-human animals, even when it`s not their fault. Another example of this selfish species of ours. Your views, live or die?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 January 2010
20:0937219#2
certainly not, the victim should never have kept a magnificent animal as a pet and living in a cage.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 January 2010
07:5237260#3
I agree.
Roger
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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12 January 2010
08:2737269#4
Thats what you call tough luck Colin.
If you keep spiders or snakes for instance then you know that one day you could possibly be bitten, In his case eaten.
Not the tigers fault at all. re introduce it back to the wild.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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12 January 2010
14:4737289#5
Thanks all of you. Just to say, obviously the owner loved it, so they must certainly have not wanted it put down. But then again, license or not, they should not be kept as pets. He was in the cage when it happened. Sky news stated that they don`t know the reason for it turning on him. Have you ever heard such absolute rubbish? It`s a wild animal you empty head`s, (and with more brains than what you lot have got I suspect).
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Guest 689- Registered: 10 Sep 2009
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13 January 2010
00:2037379#6
Quoted on TV that there are now more tigers as private pets in the United States than wild in Asia. Maybe there is something to be said for it. I understand that Howlets exports their Tigers back to the wild.
I personally don't agree with Zoos or Circuses or even the holding of exotic pets. But then I don't understand how man can mistreat man the way he does.
David H
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13 January 2010
15:2637424#7
Sorry, not sure if it`s Linda or David H or both above, but the top line is very interesting, and the middle I agree with to a degree, (some species face extinction in the wild thanks to us lot), and circus`s are repugnent in these modern times. Regarding the last sentence, if you read up on Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins and other learned biologist`s on evolution, you may begin to understand exactly what a horrible, selfish species we are. The way man treat`s man, does not surprise me in the least from my reading`s, `You scratch my back, I`ll ride on yours`.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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13 January 2010
15:3837435#8
Howlets is alot more than just a zoo all their animals and wild life are very well looked after and have lots of room and as you said some go back into the wild .But there is aneed for Howlets and others like to if they was not there it would be the end of seeing and breding them.By the way just to let you know I done alot of the welding in both of their parks and that is holding all the fencing and cageing up.
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13 January 2010
15:4137436#9
You realise in your statement above Vic, if something escapes and eat`s someone, the press is going to be round your door.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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13 January 2010
15:5737438#10
Thats O.K. with me as know I like the press my door is always open to them.But I did love working in the parks i even got to know some of the Animals and would sit there talking to them, I got on well with the big alpes i would just sit on the out side of the cage and talked to them.we would get there about 0700hrs each morning and that is the first thing I would do go over and have a chat,I did get told off one morning for feeding them. We build the new ape house down at port lim,you can log into it on the pc,I was down there over ayear and was there the morning that the keeper was killed very sad also one of my boxing mates from Canterbury was also a keeper at howetts and he was killed aswell. But I have worked at both parks know the family as well and they do look after the wild life.
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13 January 2010
16:2137442#11
We`ve given women the vote in the past Vic, perhaps if we can give Ape`s the vote, you`ll have some more U.K.I.P. members.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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13 January 2010
17:0337446#12
Thanks for that Colin but you might be right if they vote I WILL TAKE THEM.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 January 2010
21:4337475#13
i have no problem with places like howletts where the animals keep their dignity and relative freedom.
vic is right that all is done to release a lot of species back into the wild.
the keepers there love their charges, not like the prats who like to own big cats and have them under their control to inflate their egos.
like linda, i detest zoos and circuses, much better to see a self confident animal preening itself and enjoying life.