Posing with "Tame" Zoo Animals

[sabaidii2 171]

Go to Nong Nooch or other zoos, and you can often pose with a Lion, Bear, Crocodile (crocs are never tame), or whatever.

 

Personally, I've always been hesitant about doing so. Why? While that lion may be old and toothless, its overall size makes me think that if the animal ever became angry or frightened, a single swipe of its paws could do me in.

 

Is my concern overblown? Sure, 99% of the time. But it's that last 1% I focus on, as mentioned below

 

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/cheetah-mauls-woman-60th-birthday-trip-133156169--abc-news-topstories.html

[kaiser71 30]

http://youtu.be/3PXwteQ5hQw

[ozibill 546]

Animals are meant to be feral - they are not toys for us humans - asking an animal to conform to what we want is against their nature - so I say let them live their lives without expecting them to perform for us - do not pose with them or accept the possible consequences.

[Montydog 135]

I’ve never liked the practice and have never participated. Most of these animals are sedated so that they can be used to generate revenue for there handlers, a cruel practice that if you’re an animal lover you should not condone.

[Gary 4,119]

A wild animal is a wild animal and never to be trusted. This is natures way and no one should ever put them in a position to be a supposedly tame animal and have fools petting them and having their pictures taken with them. Even the docile elephants sometimes go crazy.

[Siam Sam 964]

It's immoral but what can you do? Not my country. A tiger is my favourite animal so it was such a wonderful experience to sit with one.

[Montydog 135]

You say it’s your favourite animal yet condone the poor bugger being drugged out of his skull so you can have a holiday snap.

[Grimm 29]

Siam Sam, that has got to be the strangest argument to condone bad behaviour I've ever heard. They throw white guys off tall buildings, but hey, its not my country so I'll toss a few too.

 

It's not just that these animals are drugged, but they are constantly being raided because the animals are illegally captured and traded. The animals have short lives which breeds a constant need for new stock. There is always a news story every year about them slipping a few dead cats out the back door for the people that like tigers so much they eat them.

 

I always avoid these places.

[Hub 203]

Siam Sam, that has got to be the strangest argument to condone bad behaviour I've ever heard. They throw white guys off tall buildings, but hey, its not my country so I'll toss a few too.

 

It's not just that these animals are drugged, but they are constantly being raided because the animals are illegally captured and traded. The animals have short lives which breeds a constant need for new stock. There is always a news story every year about them slipping a few dead cats out the back door for the people that like tigers so much they eat them.

 

I always avoid these places.

 

+1

 

Before I read your post, I thought along similar lines; "I love dogs, so lets go to Korea and eat some."

[Dungheap 243]

Wild animals ... belong in the wild.

 

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[gs joe 1,776]

Siam Sam, that has got to be the strangest argument to condone bad behaviour I've ever heard. They throw white guys off tall buildings, but hey, its not my country so I'll toss a few too.

 

It's not just that these animals are drugged, but they are constantly being raided because the animals are illegally captured and traded. The animals have short lives which breeds a constant need for new stock. There is always a news story every year about them slipping a few dead cats out the back door for the people that like tigers so much they eat them.

 

I always avoid these places.

 

 

I commend his honesty , I like many have been caught up in the moment ,

but will agree its not the brightest of ideas ,

 

with hindsight I would not participate again .

 

Joe

[Siam Sam 964]

Siam Sam, that has got to be the strangest argument to condone bad behaviour I've ever heard. They throw white guys off tall buildings, but hey, its not my country so I'll toss a few too.

 

I think you're being a bit dramatic. Sitting next to a tiger and having your picture taken is not tantamount to throwing someone off a building. You're so concerned about animals yet I bet you eat them and wear products made from animals. That's okay though yeah?

Edited May 6, 2012 by Siam Sam

[yogi100 1,925]

I think you're being a bit dramatic. Sitting next to a tiger and having your picture is not tantamount to throwing someone off a building. You're so concerned about animals yet I bet you eat them and wear products made from animals. That's okay though yeah?

 

Very true.

 

If a bull could speak and you told him that he was going to be given a bit of a sedative so it would be safe for a human to sit on his back to have a photo taken he'd go for it every time rather than being told that he would get killed by a bolt being fired into his his head, his corpse cut into sections, his skin used to upholster the seats in fancy cars and his flesh eaten by humans and their pet animals!

[spike 236]

Was at Cherry Bar with a few mates a couple years back when a snake man came in looking for customers.

 

Don't know what it was with one of my mates...maybe his cologne...but the big snake opened his mouth, exposed his fangs and made a lunge at my mate just missing his nose....never seen anything like that before.

[OOOPS 4]

heres a another couple of wildlife poses that are causing an uproar courtesy pattaya one

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9232512/Mythical-swan-photo-taken-down-after-bestiality-fears.html

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2012 by OOOPS

[jacko 8,815]

Very true.

 

If a bull could speak and you told him that he was going to be given a bit of a sedative so it would be safe for a human to sit on his back to have a photo taken he'd go for it every time rather than being told that he would get killed by a bolt being fired into his his head, his corpse cut into sections, his skin used to upholster the seats in fancy cars and his flesh eaten by humans and their pet animals!

How do you know that?

I think it is quite an honour to be used to upholster an nice Bentley Continental.

[simon_cook 22]

It's immoral but what can you do? Not my country. A tiger is my favourite animal so it was such a wonderful experience to sit with one.

You sad fuck!

[jacko 8,815]

You sad fuck!

Had the sister over and a picture with a tiger cub was obligatory.

[Siam Sam 964]

You sad fuck!

 

Says the one with a dog as his avatar.

[simon_cook 22]

Says the one with a dog as his avatar.

At least the dogs not drugged out his skull,asshole

[blackpudding 2]

Got to agree with most of the posts here, it's strange to say you love a certain animal and then be happy to condone those who chain it up for the entertainment of others. I'm always amazed by the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi, the place is absolutely packed all the time with foreign tourists but you get dragged around from one chained-up tiger to the next for 10 mins, and then it's pretty much all over!

Think people's egos and desire for a cute pic too often overrides everything else.

[jacko 8,815]

The bitch I sat next to last night was far from tame.....

Drugged up, maybe.

[simon_cook 22]

The bitch I sat next to last night was far from tame.....

Drugged up, maybe.

Aren"t they all

[roorsoldja 325]

meh, I like animals but i too have had the photos with tigers lions and bears (oh my) I only felt like shit after getting pics with the bear as it was obviously abused the tiger looked fine. I was offered to see a cock fight but rufused since that is terrible. I guess fish in an aquarium is bad too ?

[spgfcs 57]

I've had pictures with tigers, crocs, orangutang, elephant, bears, snakes and a monkey dancing on my head (I was scared there, scared he would shit in my hair). To me it is part of the charm of Thailand, enjoy it before its polluted by lawyers like in the Western world. Sure animals can attack, although very rarely. But then what are we doing in Thailand but courting danger? Many of us are at risk of catching a dangerous STD - and that's probably more likely than an animal attack.

 

I've taken motorbike rides around Pattaya where my TGF and myself were just trashed and not wearing helmets (the police aren't out this late I was told). That was much more in danger then with these animals. I've done alot stupider things and see others doing even more stupid things wandering around town drunk at 1 am.

 

Not to mention that in rare cases some girls in Pattaya aren't treated much better than the animals. I'd be more concerned about that than over some captive creature.

 

BTW the best place to see tigers in in Chaing Mai - Tiger Kingdom: www.tigerkingdom.com. For about $30 we were put in a large cage with about three or four young tigers (not cubs) and two handlers for about 15 minutes with a photographer taking a photo shoot, about seventy shots. If they were sedated it was only mildly, the were walking around the cage normally and didn't appear sleepy. It was simply amazing, something very few people here have a chance to experience.

 

Its like an abortion, if you don't like them than don't have one. But don't force your subjective moralty on me. If I let people do that I'd never have gone to Thailand in the first place.