February 7, 2012
Published: 9 Dec 09 10:24 CET
Updated: 9 Dec 09 11:28 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091209-23821.html
An animal trainer is in critical condition after he was mauled by three tigers in front of a Hamburg dinner theatre audience on Tuesday evening, according to police.
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It's a big freakin feline death-machine!! Why do people have so much difficulty understanding such simple concept?!
These fools deserve the "darwin-award"....
Cruel basta*rds like that deserve no mercy.
In any case, I think such circus tricks should be tried with leopards or pumas/cougars....I just wanna be there to see what happens (tigers and lions are probably the most tolerant/domesticated of predatory cats).
When the animal "attacked" Roy, it didn't actually do any such thing. It wanted to *protect* him. How do these animals usually carry their young around? By the neck. The animal felt that Roy (who had been its companion and trainer since its birth) was in danger so it tried to get him out of that danger. It did not turn on him.
The same *might* have been true here.
BTW I also completely disagree with animals as circus entertainment. I have been to human only circuses and thouroughly enjoyed them. The sad thing is that these animals will probably be put down. They certainly can't be returned to the wild as they may no longer have the skills to survive - that is of course assuming they were captured and not born in slavery.
I never take my kids to the circus of suffering for wild animals.
Maybe one day will come and people start to wake up.. that tigers,elephants and all other animals aren't born to preform those stupid idiotic tricks but that they are WILD animals.
I hope that because of the fault of human that the tigers have to pay for it,but I think that people will never learn and blame it on the animals.