Quote Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
OK....so your defending cruelty to animals, and saying its OK for some stupid kids to provoke wild animals, and torment them, and your also saying that the stoopid kids bear no responsibility for their actions?????

Thats pretty ignorant.

FWIW, even if the fence had been at the suggested height, when the cat got mad enough, it was gonna get out anyway.

You can't protect people against their own stupidity.
They should be able to design an enclosure that the cat cannot get out of even if you wrapped yourself in bacon and catnip, threw rocks and called him a big "pussy." There is no excuse for having an enclosure that a tiger can get out of.

You might not be able to pretect someone from their own stupidity, but I want to be protected from somebody elses stupidity. So if THEY provoke a tiger, it doesn't get out and eat ME. Otherwise I'm never going to the zoo again.

That said, I totally agree that anyone who taunts a tiger should pay a price. I'd be OK with throwing the kid in with the tiger, as long as the tiger did not get out and hurt anyone else....