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Tigers As Pets?

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York man who kept a 400-pound tiger and 280-pound alligator as pets in his apartment said Monday that he was trying to create a sanctuary for the animals and that he had not put others at risk.

CNN: Tiger owner says he sought animal haven
Monday, October 13, 2003 Posted: 12:48 PM EDT (1648 GMT)

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https://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/10/13/harlem.tiger/



Personally I disagree, Tigers are my favourite animal and they should be left int he wild and not owned as pets. They don't deserve that!

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Lei, you're so right. This reminds me of my grandmom, she told me that when she was a little girl, she had a tiger as a pet (she lived in the country side) then when the tiger became too big, the police came and take him away. She said she cried so much and her family could hardly feed the huge animal.

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The tiger he had probably wasn't born in the wild so it wasn't a matter of leaving it in it's natural habitat. Still I think people are quite misguided when they take a wild animal and think they can tame it. Sigfried and Roy is a good example of the risks involved. Now they did this as their living and were professionals yet look what still happened. Can you imagine how much greater the risk is when it is just an average person deciding to raise a tiger as a pet?

A wild animal is a wild animal with very strong instincts bred into it for survival.

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Yeah. Tigers are my favourite animals and I love them to death! I would love to own one but it would just be stupid to. If i really like them it would be better to leave them int he wild rather than torture it by putting it in a cage. I've always wanted a tiger for a pet though. Hehe.

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I love tigers too! specially the white ones are soooo big and so extremely cute!!!!!!!!!!

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I like em because they are so big! Look cool and are Ferocious. White Siberian Tigers are my favourite because they are SO big and super strong! They just look cool too. Bengal tigers are my least favourite because they are tiny and not very stryong.

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Tigers are cute but panthers are cuter Why would someone torture animals like that? They shouldn't be holed up in a tiny room like that. They are too cute to be tortured like that Even if it is at a zoo, they have more room and get fed properly.

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There's a forest monastery outside Kanchanaburi, in W. Thailand, where the monks specialise in looking after orphaned animals. Their holdings include seven tigers, now all adults. The cats live in cages, which doesn't look good, but are quite happy, since the place is set in extensive forest grounds and they're taken for a couple of walks by the junior monks every day. Junior means junior; the day I visited, there were eight boys, the oldest about sixteen, cheerfully playing with these huge animals, even riding them along the paths. The Thais maintain that there's no danger because no animal would harm a monk, recognising and revering their holiness. Myself, I wonder how much holiness a ten-year-old can have accumulated, but there's no question that the kids were clearly in charge and that the tigers were in very good condition too.