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re: LSU needs to retire Mike now
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:52 am to Choupique19
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:52 am to Choupique19
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List all of the reasons LSU has a live tiger on it's campus.
A wild tiger? No reason in the world.
A rescue tiger born in captivity living in a shady facility now that would be allowed to live like a king on campus? Self explanatory.
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:53 am to LSULyle00690
He has some of the best care in the world right where he is. This is as dumb as a helmet sticker for Mike.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:27 am to The Hurricane
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It was Mike saying "I'm a tiger, not a dancing monkey. F off".
classic! So do some of the true morons on here that think shoving him in a trailer and when he starts roaring and pacing back and forth truly believe he is doing this because he loves jacking up the crowd? No, it's because he is stressed the frick out because he knows he is enclosed in a 4x6 trailer and he can't get away. So get over it people, this tradition is over with!
This post was edited on 5/24/16 at 11:33 am
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:34 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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His main purpose is to get the crowd pumped up for a football game. Its one of college football's best traditions. He doesnt do that. Needs to be retired. Especially now that he's sick.
I am just as pumped up to watch LSU play whether Mike is in attendance or not I usually show up to my seats right as the band starts their march out because that is what gets me pumped up more than anything before kick off.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:44 am to LSULyle00690
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LSULyle00690
Nice going... almost 300 down votes. And here
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:47 am to TNTigerman
Can I ask a serious question? Why are people keeping on comparing Mike (cat) to a dog? Maybe I'm confused, and got taught wrong in school but the two are not the same thing. Most cats hate to ride in cars, I've have had some pretty scary incidents having to trasport cats from place to place. Not very fun.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:54 am to LSULyle00690
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Let him move into a zoo or some other tiger habitat
Is that how you typically deal with one of your own when they're down?
Mike should stay in his own home where he is most comfortable and at ease.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 12:20 pm to Choupique19
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I bet if he could tell you, he doesn't want to walk circles around his habitat all his life either. Why keep him fenced in?
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I don't want to go to the dentist, but I do it. I don't want to pay my house note, but I do it. Life ain't about being perfectly comfortable at all times, for humans or animals.
As I am reading this thread, I am trying to understand both sides of this argument. However, the above two statements are some of the most off-base that have been posted so far.
1) You aren't going to put a live tiger who was born and raised in captivity out in the wild. The "why keep him fenced in" statement means you either think he should be let out in wild to live in a tiger's natural habitat or you think we should let a live tiger run around campus. Either way, it's a poorly thought out response and would ultimately result in Mike's demise either way.
2) The "I don't want to......but I do it" quotes might fit with human thought processes, but those thought processes don't work with the animal kingdom where instincts and survival dictate the actions of animals. Mike is a 400+ pound animal that can kill in an instant if it feels it's backed into a corner and threatened. If he doesn't want to go into the travel cage, then I don't know anyone that is willing to go and force him into it.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 12:37 pm to Jim Rockford
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He has a better habitat now than he'd have in 99% of the zoos.
yeah, I don't know of many places that are nicer than he has now. I sure as hell wouldnt put him in the BR Zoo. Their record as of late is pretty horrible.
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But the trailer business at games should end for good, with this Tiger and any future one. There's no need for it except to gratify ignoramuses.
this X1000. you can't even see the tiger thru the bars and expanded metal on the cage. You just as soon throw a stuffed animal in there. The crowd would never know. As for an intimidation factor, let a stellar defense scare the opposition. Or maybe a well-executed, crafty offense.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 12:45 pm to stho381
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1) You aren't going to put a live tiger who was born and raised in captivity out in the wild. The "why keep him fenced in" statement means you either think he should be let out in wild to live in a tiger's natural habitat or you think we should let a live tiger run around campus. Either way, it's a poorly thought out response and would ultimately result in Mike's demise either way.
I'm not talking about this Mike, right now. I'm saying why have a tiger at all if he's not for show and tell? Obviously this Mike is comfortable in his home. But if the day he was born, Roscoe was put out in the wild with a family of tigers I bet he'd be just fine.
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Mike is a 400+ pound animal that can kill in an instant if it feels it's backed into a corner and threatened. If he doesn't want to go into the travel cage, then I don't know anyone that is willing to go and force him into it.
For 40 years LSU had a live tiger parade around the stadium before the games. Only in the last two or three years has it become an issue. Somehow, someway, the LSU vet staff used to get a tiger in the travel cage.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 12:49 pm to stho381
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If he doesn't want to go into the travel cage, then I don't know anyone that is willing to go and force him into it.
Choupique could do it. Just ask him. He knows how to do everything. He could teach those slackards at the vet school how to handle a reluctant tiger.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 12:54 pm to Gray Tiger
Or they could just ask the fine folks that have gotten Mike to football games without any issues since 1936.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 12:58 pm to LSULyle00690
For the time being, he needs to stay right where he is, in a place that he knows and is comfortable with, not to mention the incredible care he will be getting.
Look, this cancer can't be cured. They can extend his life and help him along but at some point, he will succumb. At some point, the tough decision will need to be made to remove him from the public eye. No one, No one, wants a situation where a group of 2nd graders are watching him at the window, and he walks towards them and collapses halfway there.
I'll be taking my kids to go see him again real soon.
As far as the trailer thing... the only reason he is growling is because he is angry at being put in a small trailer and being prodded. IF he wants to go for a ride, awesome. If not, that's ok too.
Look, this cancer can't be cured. They can extend his life and help him along but at some point, he will succumb. At some point, the tough decision will need to be made to remove him from the public eye. No one, No one, wants a situation where a group of 2nd graders are watching him at the window, and he walks towards them and collapses halfway there.
I'll be taking my kids to go see him again real soon.
As far as the trailer thing... the only reason he is growling is because he is angry at being put in a small trailer and being prodded. IF he wants to go for a ride, awesome. If not, that's ok too.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:15 pm to LSULyle00690
let him be...if you want to help, mike's gofundme account is now open to pay for his med bills.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:16 pm to Choupique19
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I'm saying why have a tiger at all if he's not for show and tell?
You should just admit you made a dumb comment instead of doubling down on stupid. You're coming across like a petty child who can't admit talking out of his arse.
The tiger can be viewed perfectly fine while in his enclosure, and he's a part of campus. Mike can still be a part of LSU's culture without being prodded into a tiny trailer and made to freak the frick out. Every time I've ever gone to see him plenty of people are there viewing, reading the plaques and sharing the history with their kids, while he doesn't seem stressed at all.
Your argument is essentially that since I bought a horse for riding I should run it until it falls over dead, or force retrieve my duck dog in august until it can't walk. Mike isn't there just so your arse can catch a 15 second clip of him on the field before the game because you're too lazy to actually go to campus.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:17 pm to LSUFanHouston
I love Mike. As a kid, I never fully could comprehend how cool and unique it was that there was a live freaking tiger on campus.
With that said though, the tradition of him making an appearance at football games is so overrated by LSU fans. He literally just lays down in a trailer that is so protected with bars that the visibility of Mike of decent at best. It's not nearly a chill-inducing as the War Eagle or Colorado's buffalo.
With that said though, the tradition of him making an appearance at football games is so overrated by LSU fans. He literally just lays down in a trailer that is so protected with bars that the visibility of Mike of decent at best. It's not nearly a chill-inducing as the War Eagle or Colorado's buffalo.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:20 pm to Choupique19
quote:Your ignorance on the subject of tigers is entertaining. So this family of tigers would have just started setting a place for little orphan Roscoe at their dinner table, is that it? There are no tiger families that accept others. Female tigers look after the young, teach them to hunt, only until she is ready to mate again. Many times male tigers will kill young cubs because they are ready to mate again.
I'm not talking about this Mike, right now. I'm saying why have a tiger at all if he's not for show and tell? Obviously this Mike is comfortable in his home. But if the day he was born, Roscoe was put out in the wild with a family of tigers I bet he'd be just fine.
quote:Nope. Roscoe has been around for nine years so for at least that long LSU has not been forcing tigers into a travel cage. Some how, some way, LSU decided that it was cruel to use cattle prods, ropes, drugging -- whatever it took -- to get LSU's tiger into a travel cage.
For 40 years LSU had a live tiger parade around the stadium before the games. Only in the last two or three years has it become an issue. Somehow, someway, the LSU vet staff used to get a tiger in the travel cage.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:23 pm to Choupique19
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It's his sole purpose for being on campus to start with. For families and kids to look at.
And anyone who wants to see him can do so in his habitat. And quite frankly, anyone who really cares about seeing him would rather see him there than only see a cage being pulled around that stadium. For that matter they could pull the empty cage around the stadium with a recording of a tiger roaring and no one in the freakin place save for the driver and the people on top of the care would ever know the difference.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:23 pm to LSULyle00690
Should just get him a mate and get all the tiger booty he can until he's called to the upper room
Posted on 5/24/16 at 1:23 pm to tigerinthebueche
Maybe there could be a hologram Mike the Tiger (a la 2pac) running around on the field and jumping at the opposing team.
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