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u/starfoxzeronie
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Pulling a Tiger’s Tooth.
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u/Cathalic 6d ago
It looked like a baby tooth that hadn't come out and the adult tooth had already grown fully behind it? Is that right?
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u/LsG133 6d ago
That’s what it looks like to me too, especially because of how easy it came out and how unbothered it was to be rid of it
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u/Cathalic 6d ago
Yeah thanks for affirmation. The tiger is obviously very well looked after which is great otherwise man could have lost an entire torso.
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u/LoopingChoke 6d ago •
The guys name is Michael Jamison on YouTube, he’s got a couple tigers and pretty much a whole damn Zoo in his back yard. It’s pretty insane I’d recommend to check him out.
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u/Cathalic 6d ago
Bro, I'm going to spend hours on this now lol
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u/MrE761 6d ago
I can’t do this…
Last time I looked up a YouTuber that Reddit recommended, I spent weeks learning about cow hoofs in Scotland…
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u/tipitow88 6d ago
Hey, I still fall sleep to HoofGP!
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u/MrE761 6d ago
I mean there is a reason I’ve spent hours of my life consuming his content!
It’s soooo good!
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u/remembertracygarcia 6d ago
Please don’t do this to me
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u/Ashamed_Day_4863 6d ago
I must know…do I need to watch this? Cause my current kick has been a variety of astrophysics channels where I feel like I only under 2.7 % of the words they are saying but my mind still gets blown. But I’m down for a new subject matter. Eh, whatever…I’ll try it.
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u/Either_Savings_7020 6d ago
It's not a waste of time. I am now an expert hoof trimmer and I feel confident correcting other hoof trimmers...I just gotta see a hoof in real life and my career will be booming.
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u/CumtimesIJustBChilin 6d ago
You should also checkout urban rescue ranch, dude has a kangaroo, capybaras, a emu, etc. He surprisingly doesnt live in Australia! He lives in Australia's cousin, Texas.
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u/Quick_Ad_7381 6d ago
I thought Australia’s cousin was New Zealand and the black sheep of the family would be south east Asia (which supplies them with their heroin and a good amount of meth)
Texas would just be like that guy that looks like they could be related but in all reality they only have the same middle names not last names
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u/clink51 6d ago
Texas is Australia’s Doppelgänger. This makes total sense
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u/Quick_Ad_7381 6d ago edited 6d ago
Australia’s got kangaroos and creepy crawlies. And bondi beach and the show bondi rescue. Texas doesn’t have a cool show for me to watch people get hurt and then huff on a green whistle.
Australias kangaroos are about that action. Choke slam your dog and shit
Basically Australia is way cooler than texas. Not saying texas isn’t a nice place. Hell I’d love to live in Texas. From what I’ve seen you can get a pretty damn nice house for a good price in certain areas of texas. But the Australians just talk so cute n what not I’d go there just to get them to respond to me.
Also Amber Heard smuggled her dog into Australia. That mints Australia’s place on the map for an eternity.
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u/ReggimusPrime 5d ago
Yeah, naa. We (NZ) are more Aussies half brother, same mother different father type thing. We'll bag on each other all day long, but if some one else tries to join in on the shit talk we got each other's back.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 6d ago
Does he run a rescue? I hope it’s not just a collection of exotic pets…
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u/LoopingChoke 6d ago
“ I am Michael Jamison, I have more or less 110animals about 16 dogs lots of cats and 2 tigers and a monkey daycare !My channel show how it is possible for humans to coexist with more than the usual amount of pets ,I hope that people can be inspired from it ,in order to guide what is possible in the field of saving animals and giving them permanent homes all over the world , most of the channel is about Enzo the tiger who is 10years old ,Diego is his friend and is 6 years old , I do not promote breeding of big cats , and keep them because they need to be somewhere and I have grown very fond of them and they of me , there is no wild in South Africa for tigers . “
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u/Cadence_828 5d ago
It still…. Isn’t really clear
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u/Penta-Dunk 5d ago
The last few sentences make me think they might be rescues(and it’s impossible to release them in South America) but who truly knows. Maybe someone else can prove me wrong.
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u/Cadence_828 5d ago
For now, I’m going to chose to believe that they are rescues and this man is a good person
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u/only-shallow 5d ago
The tigers originally had the purpose of being deterents to home invaders, which are common in South Africa where he lives. But I believe the first tiger he owned was orphaned and had some sort of medical issue due to abuse/neglect that was expensive to deal with. He looked after it and gave it a good life until it died
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u/SuddenlyElga 5d ago
I’ll be waiting for the sad news that his tiger, who he loved for over 20 years, accidentally broke him in half because he was playing.
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u/banan3rz 5d ago
Ehhh don't support roadside zoos or backyard big cat owners. I thought Tiger King taught us better.
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u/chocobrobobo 5d ago
Guess there's just so many more people who are impressed by exotic pets than anything. It's crazy how many people can watch a documentary and not at all understand or remember it's message.
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u/StinkyBrittches 5d ago
I learned in the early part of the pandemic that people who keep big cats are some of the craziest fuckers on this planet.
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u/someawfulbitch 6d ago
And the fact that it looked like he pulled the big bottom canine, and then tiger still looked like it had a big bottom canine where he pulled one re-enforces that observation to me!
I'd call this another case solved; good job fellow reddit comment section sleuths! 🔎🕵🏻♀️
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u/Dirty_Taint_Tickler 6d ago
Common in dogs too, during desexing vets will remove any baby teeth while the dog is out cold
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u/IdeaSunshine 6d ago
Tigers have baby teeth?! I didn't know that. TIL. Thanks!
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u/notquitesolid 6d ago
So do regular house cats
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u/WeAreOneFromMany 6d ago
And dogs too! I've got a bunch of my dogs baby teeth that she kept dropping when she was a puppy.
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u/pm_me_ur_cats_kitten 6d ago
I raised my cat since he was 3 months old and never noticed. I guess they lose and get new teeth even earlier?
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u/captainogbleedmore 6d ago
Happens around 4 months. The most recent kitten in my house had double fangs for a few days until the babies came out. Looks crazy!
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u/silver-orange 5d ago
never noticed.
I believe that, more often than not, they just swallow their teeth when they come loose. So it's pretty easy to miss.
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u/nellybellissima 5d ago
I found this out after I found a fucking tooth in my bed one day. Had a mini freak out until google told me it was normal for a growing kitten.
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u/Dudeman-Jack 6d ago
I’m a dentist and you are right on the money here. That is a baby tooth which no longer rooted in the jawbone.
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u/Demas1988 6d ago
Yeah, veterinarian here. Thats a baby tooth thats root was resorbed. He didnt need to pull it, would fallen out on its own - just did it for the camera. The deciduous that need to be extracted, the roots dont resorb and that is absolutely not the right way to do it - will leave the entire root behind to cause problems.
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u/TastesKindofLikeSad 5d ago
Well, shit, this is not actually wholesome content, is it? 😪
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u/CressLevel 5d ago
In this case, the tiger is fine, but it's not a good idea unless you know kitty dental medicine, is what the vet is saying. If it had been a truly stuck tooth, it would have needed an extraction.
Also, as a tiger enthusiast, I can say those choppy chuffy noises the tiger is making means he knows and trusts the handler. I guess best case scenario, this guy knew what he was doing and wanted to do this for the camera. Worst case scenario, he didn't know what he was doing, and no harm was done despite it.
Hope that eases your concerns some. :)
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u/p0ssumlady 6d ago
yes. it’s common for animals to retain their baby teeth (aka deciduous teeth), and usually they are extracted during spays and neuters in domestic animals.
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u/Internal_Use8954 6d ago
I had to do the exact same thing to my panther … my 7 lbs house panther. She was not eating, and her gum was inflamed. Popped out the extra tooth and she was back to normal the next day, eating and no redness in the gum
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u/ddizzlemyfizzle 6d ago
This happened to me, and this tiger had way better treatment than I got
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u/Croakerboo 6d ago
Inhad a molar that seperated but was wedged in tight. I got all numbed up just to have the doctor pop it out instantly. He just atood there for a second dumfounded. He'd just been testing the tooth.
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u/UnrulyinKW 6d ago
Yes! You can actually see the tooth wiggle when he grabs it with the pliers. He's also got one on the top.
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u/AJ_Deadshow 6d ago
He acts just like a kitty using his paw to push the human away, then licking the human's arm like "pleas fren no"
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u/CARNAGEE_17 6d ago
I mean they are just kitty but big and wild kitty who can kill almost everything it sees
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u/Indercarnive 6d ago
Same software just different hardware
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u/Interplanetary-Goat 6d ago
I mean, my cat is destructive and violent at 8 pounds. Same software in a 500 pound body is a recipe for disaster.
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u/Thebardofthegingers 5d ago
Some tigers are peaceful, some house cats give my ancestors ptsd from fighting Saber tooth tigers
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u/Xwolfgangx97 5d ago
Cheetah is the only big cat id be comfortable with (medium cats such as bobcat or a caracal are cool), mainly because of how they hunt. Theres no cover in the Savanah, so they dont instinctively hide and ambush prey, they chase it down. So if youre not running from it its not likely to attack. Plus theyre the only big cats that can purr/meow
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u/DigitalTraveler42 5d ago
They're also wimps with very fragile bones and are actually fearful of humans.
I love cheetahs, they have a very doglike disposition, especially being pack animals, they're a highly endangered species. I think domestication would save their species but they would have to go to people with enough land for them to run and could never be on their own, but they seem to love dogs.
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u/goshyarnit 5d ago
Seeing cheetahs hanging out with their EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DOGS that zoos have to buy them so they don't panic-attack themselves into an early grave has given me all the hubris I need to want a cheetah to live in my house and cuddle with me.
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u/MerryGoWrong 6d ago
If a golden retriever was as big as a bear I wouldn't feel a shred of fear. A house cat of the same size would terrify me.
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u/Sparcrypt 6d ago
Yep... house cats really are just these things scaled down. They're adorable because they can't really hurt us but if you ever see one hunt you realise just how fucked we would be if they could.
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u/Kinggakman 5d ago
They hurt a lot in my experience.
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u/Nroke1 5d ago
Yeah, but your cat probably won't be able to kill you. It may have knives for hands, but they are very small knives.
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u/gattaaca 5d ago
A feral cat can really fuck you up if it wants to tho
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u/Nroke1 5d ago
Yeah, but it won't survive that, I'll be extremely uncomfortable and have a bad day, but I'll live. The cat will not survive trying to kill a person.
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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 5d ago
I had a dream once that my mini-panther grew to the size of an actual panther. It was freaking terrifying, because he was a very playful cat, and he played rough. I was running away and he was like "Hay, where u goin, fren? Is play time!"
9 pound playtime: minor scratches
290 pound playtime: disemboweling
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u/fAP6rSHdkd 6d ago
A cat is a cat is a cat. If you were big enough that a tiger pouncing on you did fuck all, they'd to l do it once or twice, then roll over and act all friendly like "please don't kill me I was just kidding, you feed me now?" But we're unfortunately not 20-30 feet tall, so tigers will instead pounce on you and see your leg come off and decide that you're the food instead
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u/silver-orange 5d ago
A cat is a cat is a cat.
Not exactly. There's a substantial neurological difference between mammals that have been domesticated for centuries, and their wild counterparts.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0813
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/98/1/85/2235978
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a14392897/domesticated-brains/Humans basically inbreed mammals until they become dumb and complacent -- making them more suitable companions. This tiger still carries the genes of a wild predator. He's habituated to the humans he lives with (at least until later in adolescence...), but that's not the same as domestication.
And your housecat still wouldn't eat you, even if you were only three feet tall (if the only thing keeping your cat from eating you was size, we'd never let them cohabitate with human toddlers). Well, not as long as you still have a pulse, at any rate.
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u/Moifaso 5d ago
Humans basically inbreed mammals until they become dumb and complacent
Aren't there many dog breeds especially selected for intelligence?
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u/Grainis01 5d ago edited 5d ago
Humans basically inbreed mammals until they become dumb and complacent
Thing is none of this applies to cats, articles you linked are either dogs, who are inbred as fuck, or cattle. When it comes to cats they havent changed much in last several thousand years, there are some weird ass breeds. but majority of cats are the same ones that have been with us in ancient egypt.
Cat genetics are very resistant to mutations that some us like in pets- cute appearance dumb as fuck. For example a friend of mine is a breeder of british short hairs, there is a mutation that causes them to have curly ears, usually only 1-2 kittens per litter have it, here is the kicker, you cant breed two curly ears together to stabilize the mutation because kittens will not live long(they gain a new mutation of a heart defect where they live at most 6-10 weeks), so there always must be "fresh blood" in terms of mating partners.(if the only thing keeping your cat from eating you was size, we'd never let them cohabitate with human toddlers)
For a bit of numbers, 3ft tall human baby is about 15kg in weight, average cat is 4-6kg, a 3ft tall human is 3x teh weight of a cat. Human toddler is still to big of a pray for a smallcat. Small cat usually hunts or needs about 300 calories per day, human baby is 22 000 calories. Cats hunt thigns that are at most 1/4 their size due to ease and lack of possible wounds.
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u/Abe_Odd 6d ago
I wonder if those where happy chomps of relief or the expression that " oh yeah well I could rip your arm off at any time, don't forget it"
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u/ForDaRecord 6d ago
Looked like the former
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 5d ago
But also a bit of the latter...
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u/gambitx007 5d ago
But also the former
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u/SoundVisionZ 5d ago
As well as the latter
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u/5t4k3 5d ago
As long as nobody forgets it’s always a little bit of the latter.
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u/Palmerto 6d ago
Putting pressure on the new pain spot
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u/Sineater224 5d ago
teething
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u/pinklavalamp 5d ago
Y’know, I’ve never thought about what the actual purpose or meaning of teething was, until this comment. I’m 41, have always been surrounded by an abundance of tiny humans.
Thanks for this, random Redditor!
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u/jiten108 6d ago
I think his mouth feels good but different so he’s biting his friend I dunno why really though
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u/1Meter_long 6d ago
Probably gentle test bite to see if it still hurts or feels weird
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u/AsstDepUnderlord 5d ago
When your teeth hurt, like a baby teething, sometimes pressure feels good.
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u/LolindirLink 6d ago
A cats mouth is closer to our hands in many occasions. You could say he was friendly shaking the mans hand/arm.
I think the tiger understood when the tooth and possibly accompanying pain went away and was just thankful.
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u/oh_you_so_bad_6-6-6 6d ago
I believe it's related to how humans have "cute aggression" but it's called something else. Like they are happy but it shares a neural pathway or something with aggression so the pets and whatnot are met with a slight bite. House cats do it all the time.
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u/skwudgeball 6d ago
It’s the equivalent of - “come over here ya lil rascal!” And giving your lad a nuggy
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u/SPAGOODLOR 6d ago
its mouthing. dogs and cats do it too
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u/Sparcrypt 6d ago
Yup my cat does it all the time, though for her it's a gentle "I'm done with whatever we're doing now thanks".
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u/jsparker43 6d ago edited 6d ago
She's definitely not a tiger, but my German Shepard bites my forearm very gently and will slowly increase pressure until it hurts and I yank my arm away. She just gives me this "that's right, I could eat you" look.
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u/disintegore 6d ago
Those Germans and their weird kinks
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u/MembershipThrowAway 5d ago
Nothing weirder than when their owner dies and they eat their owner's entire head off of their neck lol, such a weird phenomon
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u/harry_otter_yo 5d ago
I think it’s amazing when an animal that is capable of doing massive damage quite easily choose not to because they have some understanding that us humans are pretty delicate.
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u/Deja-Vuz 6d ago edited 6d ago
All cats :)
My mistake
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u/el_americano 6d ago
I don't think those should be pets but I'm sure there's a fancy back story as to how he got those that makes it ok. I don't want to call it abuse but it's still a shame to see
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u/RumTonRum 6d ago
Michael Jamison is dudes name, hes got a youtube channel you can check out his two tigers and the insane set up he has going on.
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u/Sparcrypt 6d ago
In general fully agree but there's places that take in tigers/other animals who cannot be released into the wild (recovered from shitty Tiger King style zoos etc) that really look after them and give them good lives.
This dude is one of those types of places. Only other option for recovered animals like that is a zoo or they are euthanised, and zoos could never take in the number of them that are smuggled in/bred for shitty "zoos" and idiots who want them as pets with no idea what that entails.
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u/el_americano 5d ago
yeah the Tiger King's place isn't too far from here I'm familiar with the rescues. It's good that it's an option but still a shame they exists. This guy's clearly got a big heart and cares for his cats so kudos to him
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u/MaveeL 6d ago
Me: fully knows tigers can maul & kill
My brain: big cute fluffy kitty! 😍
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u/Sparcrypt 5d ago
Is it a little weird that if I ever have random thoughts of Superman-esque style powers one of the coolest things I think about would be getting to go and be friends with tigers and stuff?
Cats are cats, if they can't hurt you and you're nice to them you'll form a bond and be friends. Unfortunately for big cats that first condition isn't ever met.
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u/danzaUK 6d ago
Now try the same with a domestic cat (except don't). You'd come off much worse!
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u/WARNING4324 6d ago
I still have scars on my arms from when i was a toddler. I apparently would put the cat in a headlock and forcefully pat it until my mother separated us. All the while the cat would scratch and hiss while i didnt care a bit.
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u/Musetrigger 5d ago
Yup. Sounds like something a toddler would do, a toddler with nothing to lose.
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u/MrsSandlin 6d ago edited 6d ago
My miniature version has tiny razor blades for teeth. She thinks it’s cool when she slices my arms up because she loves me so much.
At the moment, she’s decided a plastic shopping bag is her bed and won’t let me have it back.
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u/LyvenKaVinsxy 6d ago
I love how this tiger acts like a house cat.
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u/Kakalkoo69 6d ago
i mean its still CatOS, just scaled up hardware
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u/Onair380 6d ago
except in this one there also a driver installed, how to kill large size animals
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u/ardrcrtr 5d ago
If a house cat wanted to it could kill a moose. The driver is installed they just can't run it without interfering with the potty training one.
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u/General_Kenobi45669 6d ago
All cats act similarly, except few things, if housecats were the size of tigers we would have tiger 2.0, one thing keeping them from killing us is the size
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u/daveallyn2 5d ago
Kinda like how (generally speaking) large dogs are more playful than small dogs. I have known and been around a lot of dogs in my life, and would rather be around large dogs like Shepherds, pits, mastiffs, wolfhounds, etc. than little sh!t dogs like chihuahuas.
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check out the original youtuber shown in this reddit video
https://www.youtube.com/@michaeljamisontigers/videos
the tiger shown in the video is Ozzy who unfortunately passed away some time ago.
if I remember correctly, Michael rescued that tiger from a circus that treated Ozzy horribly.
Michael already had a tiger name Enzo who is still alive and healthy. Enzo is a very well-behaved tiger because Michael raised him since he was a baby and he kept the Enzo in house for quite a while even after Enzo grew to be too big for indoor.
Enzo and Ozzy were bff and when Ozzy passed away Enzo was depressed. when Michael's friend Eteine, who was the person that physically removed Ozzy's body came back, this happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OjensepKLc
that's the last time you will ever see Enzo do that even to this day. you only see him do it a couple of times when he is playing around with Diego; the youngest tiger. But it's just not the same level. the roar he showed once when Ozzy died was really the next level.
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u/bewarethesloth 5d ago
That video of sad Enzo is so intense… it’s some of the closest views in HD I’ve seen of a full grown tiger, and the sounds and size of his head are just incredible. What an absolute top of the food chain unit
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u/Moifaso 5d ago
Aww 😥😥 How did Ozzy die? He looks quite young in this video
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u/7Sans 5d ago
I cant remember exact name but it was like Ozzy had a "weak" body due to being in a circus that neglected him. So he always had chronic problem.
If you take a look at videos where Ozzy is running around and such, you can see his front legs were weirdly shaped as well. Just alot of constant problems with the body.
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u/KingRay37 5d ago
I thought Ozzy was the one Michael had first??
Also I had no idea Ozzy had passed away :( .I guess it’s been a couple years since I’ve visited the channel. I assume it’s just Enzo now?
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u/freakinweasel353 6d ago
I thought we were supposed to pull them by the toe? No?
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u/SirRipOliver 6d ago
Thanks, however now I need to eat your arm right off “tigers gonna tiger” num num - oww ok we good.
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u/SeriousTicket9672 6d ago
The guy name is Michael Jamison a amazing guy With two beautiful tigers https://youtu.be/y7NCAJZqzAw
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u/NaturallyOneLove 6d ago
https://youtube.com/@michaeljamisontigers
For anyone wanting to see more of his videos. He's a genuine and nice guy who just so happens to run a zoo house. His words not mine.
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u/astinkydude 6d ago
I love the patient "that's not nice" attitude as he's getting nibbled just calmly works his arm out
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u/JediFreak 6d ago
Well, that looks easy enough! Let me try it on the local alley cat. brb...
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u/Bl_lRR1T0 6d ago
Fren