Can you belive the person who shot the tiger 5 times?

Question

I think it is so ridiculus!!!!! Tell me your opinoin please.

Answer 1

you mean the one at the SF zoo? i live near SF so that is pretty freaky and i think they should have shot the tiger with a tranquilizer.

Answer 2

tanilioness, excellent explanation. You rest my case.Thanks

Answer 3

by tanilion... Member since:

April 19, 2007

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1505 (Level 3) As someone who has worked with lions, tigers and other big cats for over 7 years at a rescue I will try to give an informed response to your question. Tranquilizer darts fired from special guns are really only an option if an escaped animal is NOT posing an immediate threat to human life. I have witnessed animals being tranquilized by sub cu (under the skin but not directly in a vein) darts and have even calmed a young female lion til she finally fell asleep after being darted in a squeeze cage to keep her from injuring herself while the sedative took effect. In an ideal situation, darts take up to 15 minutes before a relatively calm animal is safe and asleep. An excited or frightened animal may take up to thirty minutes to surrender to the drugs' effects. The zoo workers would have had no authority to prevent the police from firing bullets at the tiger. Nor should they have. In the situation where this tiger was literally in the process of mauling a person, and having already killed another, unfortunately, there was no other decision to make other than shoot to kill. Obviously, I love big cats since I spent 7 years of my life volunteering to be able to work with them. Take a look at my icon. But, in this case, there was simply no other choice. Only in the movies do tranquilized animals fall safetly asleep immediately, in real life it takes too much time to prevent dangerous situations like what happened at the San Francisco Zoo from occurring. And as for using 5 shots to bring the tiger down, tigers are extremely strong and hardy animals capable of surviving ghastly wounds and even being able to hunt other animals while recuperating from those wounds. The police only had pistols, which fire small bullets, and 5 shots were probably required to stop the tiger from attacking. It sounds cruel, and I am a devoted animal lover, but the force the police used really was reasonable and necessary to prevent further loss of human life.