I was surprised the vet nurse was allowed to take the tiger cub home with her, but I expect the safari park paid for her tiger license
TBH I think its an amusing publicity stunt for the safari par. The tiger will be eventually too large to keep indoors but its worth hand-rearing a healthy specimen of a white Bengal Tiger – its pretty much guaranteed a cushty existence as a stud….
mudstomper wrote:
I suppose they do serve a purpose in keeping certain species alive etc but last time I took my ex and her kids to Colchester I found the place really disturbing, just wanted to let everything loose, ok that probably would have meant the chimps hurling penguins at the ‘tangs and the very pissed off siberean tiger killing everything in sight but you get my drift……
Colchester wasn’t the best of zoos, I think they may even have got a bit of a bollocking from Defra in recent years about the conditions there, and have been made to invest in more space (or it changed ownership recently)
I went there a few years back and had much the same ideas, except I thought the cages could be used to put families in in sink estates, the apes moved into the estate instead, and it would be fun to set the tiger on chav gangs.
I expect though it would result in us getting in trouble for the tigers bad diet, and the orangutans and chimps leading a march on Tendring Council offices to complain about the bad conditions and that at least stuff got fixed on time in the Zoo..
