Posted: 11/2/2011 9:59 PM
Post subject: America's Most Dangerous Pets
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Mitjitsu
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I saw this documentary a couple nights ago. Its done by the same guy who brought you America's Most Hated Family. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 I was wondering what were peoples opinions on the ethics on owning such dangerous pets. It seems to me people only want these pets when they're young and not thinking ahead when they reach an age of sexual activity. Where they are more prone to violence and unpredicable behaviour, thus end up ditching them in an animal sanctuary like the one seen in the documentary. Some people think its cruel that they are caged up in a zoo, but it seems to me a lose,lose, lose situation. If you put an adult tiger in a cage you get animal right groups saying how restricted they are. If you have them freely roaming around its owner then you'll have them potenially causing damage to property and death/serious injury to not just strangers but the owners themselves. If you release them back into the wild (assuming it was born and bred in captivity) then it will struggle to fend for itself and almost certainly be hunted to extinction.
Posted: 11/2/2011 10:47 PM
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That is completely absurd. TIGERS?
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Posted: 11/2/2011 10:57 PM
Post subject: I am predictable.
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Get a ferret. Problem solved!
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Posted: 11/2/2011 11:14 PM
Post subject: Re: I am predictable.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Get a ferret. Problem solved!
Don't they get in your pants?
Posted: 11/2/2011 11:32 PM
Post subject: Re: I am predictable.
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Mitjitsu wrote:
Ferret Warlord wrote:
Get a ferret. Problem solved!
Don't they get in your pants?
Still less dangerous than most dogs.
A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.
Posted: 11/2/2011 11:58 PM
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Here's a story my parents told me about their generation of the USSR (moozooh, AnS, and others can tell me if they have heard of this); There was a certain Moscow family which kept and cared for a lion in their apartment for many years. They had brought it up since birth, and this particular lion was very famous, starring in not only circus shows, but television specials and movies. Then, one day, the lion dismembered and partially ate two of the family members, and maimed a third one before the authorities came in and put it down. Moral of the story- Don't keep lions as pets, cute as they are!