18 January 2009
Circus! - Roger & the house-trained Tigers
Meet Roger Flack, the trainer and tamer of the tigers. Well-fed and in great condition, the seven tigers eat 200 kilos of red meat a day.
You see them playing in the smaller photo. If you enlarge it, you'll see a wooden frame just below the large wheel. The tigers squat over this box to urinate. It stands, presumably, over a drain. Well they are cats, after all and that's what cats do but it hadn't occurred to me that circus tigers would be house-trained. They are!
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The way tigers are being wiped out in the wild by poachers and angry farmers zoos and circuses will soon represent the only hope of survival for the species.
I think they are the most beautiful animal on the planet..
i love tigers too.
and yet, like many i suppose, i get a bit uneasy when is see them performing their 'tricks'
They are gorgeous and will take your word for their care and conditions. I love the close up of the white tiger. Magnificent.
V
Beautiful animals.
Whaat fab animals. Wow tigers that are house broken??? hee Polite tigers. Trainers in Monaco really do their a "thorough" training job haa. that's great. However, a happy cat is a well performing cat and truly they do a good job.
it brings to mind; all those pics of Ranier playing with the young cubs. He really had a trainers heart to want to work so closely with those animals like that and to allow the cubs to roam the palace with the kids as pets was a story that was quite amusing and endearing.
They are beautiful! I had no idea they could be house-trained!!
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