re: LSU traditions, and why our governor doesn’t give a sh’t about them.

Go back to the democratic underground you troll.

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I'm talking about emotions. Having a reaction to physical pain is an automatic response to any living thing that has working nerves. Emotions come from the soul, which animals do not possess.

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oh, so you’ve never had a pet dog?

dogs absolutely feel emotions.

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I can remember as a kid getting bit by my dog while trying to pet him, because I did so while he was eating. Does that sound like a rational thinking being to you?

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perfectly rational.
i’d stab you with my fork if you tried to pet me while i was eating.

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Holy frick

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Do you know how most animals die in the wild?

All this bitching and whining is enough to make me not want a tiger in the stadium. The melting over this is equal to the left melting over Trump.

What you've posted is more of the same that has been stated for years. This isn't new research. Once again, they are trying to assign human-like emotion to basic reactions in animals. If an animal physically feels bad, either because it's sick, or cold or hungry, or whatever the case may be, they might appear to be distressed, but how does one assign an emotion to that, rather than keeping in mind that animals understand threats to their survival? There is never an answer. It is simply inferred and accepted that it must be an emotion.

My comment about them bonding with their caretakers are not contrary to my point, as you claim. Because, remember, that after animals have left their mothers, there is no co-dependence that remains. They bond because they know that their mother is their life source. That is their instinct. Same with their caretakers. If someone is feeding them and continuously demonstrating from their birth that they are not a threat to the animal, then the animal does not perceive a threat. Because animals that are raised with humans never learn how to live in the wild, they are dependent on their caretakers. This is not my opinion, but what people who I would otherwise disagree with on most other things about animals would say.

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It’s only incoherent because you are ignoring the facts. LSU has to have a lot of special permits and accreditation to have a live tiger on campus. Part of maintaining that accreditation requires that LSU, among other things, actually demonstrates that it gives a shite about the wellbeing of the the animal. See if you can figure out the logical leap there instead of limiting your thought process to “me want tiger to roar in stadium.”

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I'm not at all ignorant of the facts. The burden is on people like PETA to demonstrate how a tiger's well-being is adversely affected by being wheeled out in a cage for a little bit, while otherwise being treated like an animal king. I've heard all of the arguments about the crowd spooking the animal, because it isn't used to it. Well, that is why you bring them up from the beginning in those environments. LSU is bringing in a different tiger from somewhere else just for this game, as I understand it. Of course, this hasn't stopped PETA from complaining. There are live mascots all over the country, in Colorado, Texas, UGA, A&M, to name a few. Those animals don't look spooked. Their handlers have to know what they're doing. And if LSU brings a tiger into the stadium, as they have before, they have to know what they're doing. Who is PETA to decide what's ethical?

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See above. And also note that you have provided no evidence at all to support anything you’ve stated, other than your own clearly ignorant opinions.

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So you want me to show you evidence for something that I'm saying doesn't exist? You realize that's what you're asking right? What I've stated, that you call my "opinions" only happens to be observational "evidence" from all of recorded history. It is a very recent phenomenon that people have started trying to claim that physical reactions to different situations were the same as human emotions. I hear people say that their dog "loves" them because they lick their face every time they see them. If their dog loves them, then why does the dog eat the human's food as soon as they walk away from their plate? We seem to be redefining what emotions are. Dogs lick your face, because that's what they do. I go to a friends house and see their dog for the first time, and it wants to lick my face. Does it love me? Is it happy to see me? It doesn't even know me.

So I'm asking the animal "experts" to prove to me how they can discern such things. All I see is "research suggests", but the research also consists of words like "might" and "seems". Very subjective terms for something that is so "widely accepted".

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The melting over this is equal to the left melting over Trump.

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This is a poorly thought-out, lazy comparison.

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He is a slimy politician that understands that he can play on the emotions of a passionate fan base.

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Aside from a few retarded fans on this website, nobody was even asking for this to happen. Hes just butthurt from LSU telling him no.

The news said the Tiger left Florida on Thursday so it’s likely sitting in a trailer in some hotel parking lot for the next few days

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Metaloctopus

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Bro, you convinced us you were retarded 2 pages ago, you don't have to keep trying.

Who cares bring your whingeing somewhere else.