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California Teen arrested for smuggling Tiger Cub purchased in Mexico for $300

Patrick S.

Banned
So, a rare tiger is $300 in Mexico, while a fox, which is an animal I see running around everyday on my drive to work, costs $7000 in Russia...
 

HeatBoost

Member
So...

...is it racist of me to think that the guy he saw with the full grown tiger was a drug lord?

Like, who the fuck has a tiger on a leash OTHER than a drug lord? Or a stage magician.
 
So, a rare tiger is $300 in Mexico, while a fox, which is an animal I see running around everyday on my drive to work, costs $7000 in Russia...

You can get foxes for less, I think the Russian ones are expensive because they've been selectivly bred to be more domesticated.

Is Loki one of those Russian Domesticated foxes you get for $8,000 that are really rare??
No... we paid 300.00 for Loki he is more like your flea-market garage sale type of cheap fox, but he is my little flea-market fox :)

http://lokitheredfox.com/frequently-asked-questions.html
 
So, a rare tiger is $300 in Mexico, while a fox, which is an animal I see running around everyday on my drive to work, costs $7000 in Russia...
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Don't confuse wild fox with Russian pet fox. Russia has monopoly on domestic pet fox they spent decades to bleed.
 

Pikma

Banned
So...

...is it racist of me to think that the guy he saw with the full grown tiger was a drug lord?

Like, who the fuck has a tiger on a leash OTHER than a drug lord? Or a stage magician.
Would a drug lord sell his tiger for $300 tho?
 

chadskin

Member
They're cute when they're all grown up, too.

Sneaking+up+on+a+tiger_5a0652_6025853.gif
 

Surface of Me

I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
So...

...is it racist of me to think that the guy he saw with the full grown tiger was a drug lord?

Like, who the fuck has a tiger on a leash OTHER than a drug lord? Or a stage magician.

No.

It is racist of you to associate "drug lord" with a certain race though.
 
$300 seems ridiculously cheap for a tiger. This story has reminded me of an Ricky Gervais Show years ago where Karl Pilkington claimed he'd found a website where you could buy a tiger for $1000 and a chimpanzee for $50K.
 

Namikaze

Member
I actually thought the title said "Teen arrested for smuggling Tiger's club purchased in Mexico" lol, I thought it was gonna be about Tiger woods. I need more sleep.

They're cute when they're all grown up, too.

Sneaking+up+on+a+tiger_5a0652_6025853.gif

Uh huh.."cute." I don't wanna die so I'll keep my distance.
 

valkyre

Member
If you had a tiger from birth would it be fully domesticated and calm / gentle as an adult?

Cats are never 100% domesticated, whether it is a tiger or a normal cat.

Thats the beauty of them, thats what cat owners admire about them. Their instincts remain largely unchanged even after thousands of years of human interaction. That is the "exotic" thing about this species. They are independent animals that if you let them roam free, are fully capable of supporting themselves. And they know that. The know they do not need you to survive, unlike dogs, who are completely dependent on either being fed or scavenging trash. Cats will hunt their food and deal with their personal hygiene themselves.

That doesnt mean that cats dont show affection, on the contrary they are very affectionate. But they will always do so, knowing that they are simply sharing space with you sort of like awesome roommates, never as your "property".

That's why there is a saying that goes: "a human chooses his dog, but a cat chooses its human"

So the answer is no.

A cat will never be fully domesticated., much less a huge Tiger which is capable of even killing you by trying to play with you or trying to show you affection.
 

Sami+

Member
No it's a wild animal. Domestication takes hundreds of years naturally.

The Soviets managed to figure out how to do it in a shorter time but it still took them like 50 years to fully domesticate wild foxes. Then they got bored and got rid of all the cute domesticated foxes.

This might just be the most Russian thing I've ever read
 

Luigi87

Member
So cute.
Totally terrifying for me when grown up, lol, albeit still a beautiful animal.

Hopefully is set up in a proper place of care now.
 

U2NUMB

Member
This summer my family and I visited a big cat rescue. They had well over 100 tigers and lions.. the stories they told were depressing as hell. Stop thinking these are house cats people.. geeze

Some states also need to get their head out of their ass and ban this sort of thing. I believe Texas was one that pretty much lets you have whatever. They told stories of emergencies in houses so fire crews or police show up only to be face to face with a tiger, crazy.
 

GhaleonEB

Member
Cats are never 100% domesticated, whether it is a tiger or a normal cat.

Thats the beauty of them, thats what cat owners admire about them. Their instincts remain largely unchanged even after thousands of years of human interaction. That is the "exotic" thing about this species. They are independent animals that if you let them roam free, are fully capable of supporting themselves. And they know that. The know they do not need you to survive, unlike dogs, who are completely dependent on either being fed or scavenging trash. Cats will hunt their food and deal with their personal hygiene themselves.

That doesnt mean that cats dont show affection, on the contrary they are very affectionate. But they will always do so, knowing that they are simply sharing space with you sort of like awesome roommates, never as your "property".

That's why there is a saying that goes: "a human chooses his dog, but a cat chooses its human"

So the answer is no.

A cat will never be fully domesticated., much less a huge Tiger which is capable of even killing you by trying to play with you or trying to show you affection.
This is a good post, and a wonderfully succinct distinction about the differences between cats and dogs. I loved my cats as a kid, but it's accurate to say we co-habitated rather than me feeling like its owner. Cats remaining semi-feral has long fascinated me.
 
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