Popular zoo told to stop putting piglets in with tiger

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Popular zoo told to stop putting piglets in with tiger

 

Thai caption: Tiger "playing" with a piglet spooks spectators

Picture: Sanook

 

A popular tiger zoo has been told they face having their licence revoked if they repeat activity that local officials have condemned. 

 

Sri Racha Tiger Zoo was putting piglets in with a female tiger to attract tourists. 

 

But the move backfired when a tourist posted a four second clip in which the tiger - a female named Saimai aged about 21 months - seemed to go for one of the piglets. 

 

Signage at the cage said that Saimai had been raised on pig's milk and had been around pigs since she was young. The sign referred to her "gentleness". 

 

But the local authority and animal welfare took a dim view. 

 

After the clip was widely shared on social media they went straight to the zoo and put a stop to it. 

 

Sanook reported that the pig concerned was not harmed. 

 

Now pigs were in the pig enclosure and tigers were in theirs. 

 

The zoo was warned they would have their licence revoked if there is any such repeat. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

 

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[johng]

2002

Tiger,pig and Dobermann

[ezzra]

Anything for money i guess, cruel and reprenhansive acts never mind all the the sake of mo' money...

[VocalNeal]

Doesn't Thailand have quite good cruelty to animals laws?

[RotBenz8888]

And what about stop putting people in with tigers?

Edited January 27, 2020 by RotBenz8888

[Geoffggi]

Hey the Tigers have to be fed sometime..........LOL

[DrTuner]

Wild animals are wild animals. And who could resist a bit of yummy bacon.

[Basil B]

4 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Doesn't Thailand have quite good cruelty to animals laws?

Thailand has many excellent laws, compliance is the issue...

[kidneyw]

Maybe Saimai is vegan.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Doesn't Thailand have quite good cruelty to animals laws?

Thailand has many laws.. getting people to abide by them is the tricky bit,

and then prosecution... well that's a long long long story!

[tinca tinca]

On 1/27/2020 at 10:02 AM, VocalNeal said:

Doesn't Thailand have quite good cruelty to animals laws?

will have somewhere.....but any laws in this country are a waste of time....NO ONE RESPECTS them especially on the roads !!!

[Leaver]

On 1/27/2020 at 1:56 PM, johng said:

2002

Tiger,pig and Dobermann

 

Tiger, Pig, Doberman, and a Chinese tourists.  Oh, sorry, he's on the other size of the glass.  ????

[spinner2020]

given their national philosophy, you might think Thais would be good to animals but they are – if anything – even worse than the Chinese.

Zoos anywhere are rarely good for livestock but here they are a disgrace – see pic above of three or more disparate species in a cage smaller than a BKK hole-in-the-wall bar.

Yes, I admit I have put the wife in with crocodiles – not for a photo but to get eaten*.

But the animals are so drugged/effed they don't notice her. I've seen kitchens in China taking more care of live menu items than zoos in Thailand.

 

*I mean for them to eat the wife, not the other way round.

 

[jacko45k]

14 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

Tiger, Pig, Doberman, and a Chinese tourists.  Oh, sorry, he's on the other size of the glass.  ????

The pig was fine with it until he joined them!

[Leaver]

8 hours ago, jacko45k said:

The pig was fine with it until he joined them!

If only the Thai's were accepting of foreigners on their patch as the animals in this photo.  ????

[BritManToo]

20 hours ago, spinner2020 said:

given their national philosophy, you might think Thais would be good to animals but they are – if anything – even worse than the Chinese.

Zoos anywhere are rarely good for livestock but here they are a disgrace – see pic above of three or more disparate species in a cage smaller than a BKK hole-in-the-wall bar.

Yes, I admit I have put the wife in with crocodiles – not for a photo but to get eaten*.

But the animals are so drugged/effed they don't notice her. I've seen kitchens in China taking more care of live menu items than zoos in Thailand.

 

*I mean for them to eat the wife, not the other way round.

 

 You do understand Tigers are nocturnal, and sleep all day.

No need to drug them.

[DrTuner]

6 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

 You do understand Tigers are nocturnal, and sleep all day.

No need to drug them.

If somebody wakes me up when I'm sleeping I'll certainly bite their head off. Leave 'em tigers alone.