re: LSU announces changes to Mike the Tiger routine. No more stadium visits.

It's got nothing to do with PETA. Unless lsu sources a tiger from a for-profit breeding operation (illegal), they couldn't get a tiger with their setup the way it was. They are renovating his enclosure and agreeing to not take Mike into the stadium so that they can achieve sanctuary status and be eligible for zoo transfer tigers that they couldn't get before.

I'd bet they exhausted all their options to legally source a tiger without complying with the sanctuary/zoo accreditation program. Unable to proceed, they gave in so they could get a tiger.