Here's the story of Roy's tiger attack, as told by ...

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 3:40 pm

... the trainer who was in charge of the tiger.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/featu ... up-1197216

Séamas · Post by **Séamas** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:01 pm

Back when my wife went to (Ringling) Clown College she got all sorts of books and literature about the history of the circus.
Basically the longest part of the history was animal acts--starting with Equestrian shows, but also more unsavory things like bear-baiting--where a bear would be chained up in the town square and the impresario would see how many dogs it would take to kill the bear--and the bear taking out numerous dogs in the act. People are sick and have been for a very long time.

One interesting aspect the big cats aren't the biggest danger. The cats usually will signal displeasure, so the trainer will just have that cat sit out the act if it seems in a bad mood. Or if it is showing hostility, the trainer will have some time to get out if its way or get the cat out of the cage.

Elephants can be far more dangerous, they also get very jealous. On more than one occasion a circus elephant has killed it's trainers' spouse.

Bears are apparently among the worst as they will just snap and go bananas.Apparently there have been acts with polar bears, which is about as stupid as you can get.

I think there is an unfortunate cultural problem where people seem to think a big cat or a bear--or wolf can be "domesticated". They can't.

macnuke · Post by **macnuke** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:05 pm

moral of stick fiddling with animals. ....

if you don't have a big gun and shoot to kill......
you are not at the top of the food chain like you think you are.

Pithecanthropus · Post by **Pithecanthropus** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 10:00 am

Disappointed. Was expecting "... as told by the tiger."

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 10:10 am

Ha!

I like the look on the face of the Indian guy in that first pic; Like he's thinking, "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod its a stick fiddling TIGER and it thinks I'm lunch!"

Séamas · Post by **Séamas** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 10:44 am

DukeofNuke wrote: Ha!

I like the look on the face of the Indian guy in that first pic; Like he's thinking, "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod its a stick fiddling TIGER and it thinks I'm lunch!"

That tiger's uncle ate my uncle!

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