re: Instead of leaving mike in a tiny cage for the games like the old days...

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but honestly, would you, as a wild animal, want to sit in a cage for four hours with tons of noise etc?

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I don’t know... I’m not a wild animal. Just because a human would be annoyed with being in a cage for a few hours doesn’t mean a tiger is. People need to stop attributing human emotions to animals.

The early articles said it was the decision of the vet that cared for Mike. Everything he said showed that it was strictly him that did not want Mike at the games.

I lived in south stadium and would come out to watch the visiting team's busses arrive to the tunnel. Mike's cage was in the dark, in the tunnel. When the teams walked by, he would growl about 135 db. It would scare the hell out of them.

This vet has taken that away.

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lived in south stadium and would come out to watch the visiting team's busses arrive to the tunnel. Mike's cage was in the dark, in the tunnel. When the teams walked by, he would growl about 135 db. It would scare the hell out of them.

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You sound so fricking stupid. You could put barking dogs in the “dark tunnel” to scare them. Mike never scared anyone over 10 years old.
Try scaring your opponent with a suffocating defense and scorching offense.

No motherfricker. You are stupid. You are claiming that something didn't happen that I saw many times. Come at me a little nicer from now on, not like a flaccid dickhead.

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Seems like he's disappeared from national awareness now that he no longer shows up to the games.

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I can’t believe y’all don’t realize that the above is EXACTLY WHY they quit bringing him to the games. LSU was getting heat from PETA (not PITA you oafs) and other animal activists and wanted it to end. They floated a trial balloon of no more live tiger mascots and, thank God, some major donors / power players blew a gasket. So the compromise was no more bringing him to the games.

Ever notice that the new enclosure / habitat has embossed Roman numerals for Mike I, Mike II, etc along with the years he was at LSU? Then notice that they have already put Mike IX, Mike X, Mike XI, etc up there. That was a not so subtle reminder that the university is expected to keep a live tiger.

Mike not going to the games is just a first step in LSU not having a live mascot. This could very well be the last live Mike we have on campus.

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It's a sanctuary now, arse. He's never going to go out to games. Ever.

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No shite. That's a fricking tiger in the vicinity of 90,000 meals. Or mauling victims. Go visit mike, he does not need to visit you.

Shot like that died in the 70's with lawn darts, kids toys without GFI switches, and refusing to wear seat belts.

a-hole still doesn't get it!

Thanks to this thread, this ad comes up below the thread:

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give him headphones like the players have when they walk down the hill

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So how will he put these on while lacking the opposable thumbs?