Do you think when wild cats lash out on their trainers it's a fluke bc they are wild or is it anger?

Question

Such as the attack on that guy in Vegas a while back with the white tigers. Some say the tiger was trying to protect him while others say that he was just acting on a wild instinct. But I mean for reals, this guy and that animal had a bond for lots of years. Do you really think it could just turn on him for no reason like that?? I don't know if I buy that.

Answer 1

Well you have to think these are wild animals and no matter how tame you got them to be or how much in captivity breeding you did over the years they still retain their wild instincts. Like horses for a classic example. We have bred them for a long time so we think that they are tame now because of several different generations were in captivity. Wrong all animals still do. I do not them but the tiger could have had a bad day and wanted to be left alone because he was moody like how you want to be alone certain days.IT does not matter how long he had a bond for that animal was still wild and is born and made to be wild. As much as I think it would be cool to have one they are better off in the wild. There was a woman that I read about a few years ago in a magazine she was working with a tiger not in a show but like a zoo and was mauled by him. Another acount that a trainer had a bear I think a black bear and the producer wanted a picture sitting next to the bear and she was attacked by him for no reason. I think that they could be saying that they want to be alone and we dont listen to the signs.

Working with horses they could lash out at anytime. Any animal can attack without reason.You just have to think this big cat was not ment for this. When you think about tigers do you think about seeing them in the wild roaming freely or preforming circus acts? there you have your answer then

Answer 2

Hi again. in 15 years, i have had one attack and that was my fault. It was with a new tiger that was shot, and we won it;s trust back but it was upridictable. Soo we take the cats to the beach and he found a fish which he started eating. They get very terrirtoial when they have a big meal, even the closest tigers we had who comes inside our house occasionally. soo i was trying to get them back in the trucky and i touched the tiger who leaped on me and broke my arm ( Fully sized Siberian tifer) that was all he did.

No with Roy, the man i vegas, i met him once at a breeding program meeting and i knew he was not the man to harm an animal. From what i here he fell and his tiger grabbed him by neck to pull him off stage. Now for a tigers neck nothing would happen but for a humans. He still works with that tiger though. Bonds do work but you must understand that they are still animals.

Answer 3

http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring...

The lions and tigers were Roy's domain, and his ability to communicate with them was marvelous and mysterious at the same time. Roy didn't so much train the animals as bond with them through a technique he called "affection conditioning," raising tiger cubs from birth and sleeping with them until they were a year old. "When an animal gives you its trust," Roy had said, "you feel like you have been given the most beautiful gift in the world."

But on the night of October 3, that trust was broken. Forty-five minutes into the show, at about 8:15 p.m., Roy led out Montecore, a seven-year-old white tiger born in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 380-pound cat became distracted by someone in the 1,500- member crowd and broke his routine, straying toward the edge of the stage. With no barrier protecting the audience, Roy leapt to put himself between Montecore and the front row, only a few feet away. The tiger kept coming. Roy gave him a command to lie down, and Montecore refused, gripping the trainer's right wrist with his paw.

"He lost the chain [around the tiger's neck] and grabbed for it, but couldn't get it," says Tony Cohen, a Miami tourist who was sitting ten yards from the stage. With his free hand holding a wireless microphone, Roy tried repeatedly tapping Montecore on the head, the sound reverberating through the theater. "Release!" Roy commanded the tiger. "Release!"

Montecore relaxed his grip, but Roy had been straining to pull away, and fell backward over the tiger's leg. In an instant, Montecore was on top of him, clamping his powerful jaws around Roy's neck. Now Siegfried, standing nearby, ran across the stage yelling, "No, no, no!" But the tiger was resolute, and dragged his master 30 feet offstage "literally like a rag doll," as another witness recalls.

Just because they had a bond doesn't mean the tiger was domesticated. According to this article, I think the tiger was acting on instinct. The tiger was distracted and wanted to check out the distraction. However, the distraction was in the audience, and Roy couldn't just let the tiger wander off the stage. I don't think the tiger was trying to hurt him, but a tiger is able to do a lot of damage with little effort.

Any animal has the potential to harm us. Animals that are trained also can choose not to listen to their trainer. When a wild animal decides not to listen to it's trainer, it's going to listen to it's instinct.

And I think there are a few factors that determine how or why an animal attacks.

- was the animal abused

- does the animal have an aggressive or dominate personality

- how does the trainer treat it's animals

- the animal's past history

- is the animal scared

- is the animal injured

- something triggers the animal's instinct (such as running and the animal chases you like prey)

-etc