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So, people want to replace Mike VI with Tony (the gas station) Tiger
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:18 am
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:18 am
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If there's 3 things you don't want to buy from a gas station, it's:
-Sushi
-Live tiger
-Sushi
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With the unfortunate news that Mike VI, LSU’s live-tiger mascot, is in a cancer death spiral and will be euthanized within a couple of months, a win-win salve for a sad situation occurred to us: talk Michael Sandlin at the Tiger Truckstop into donating his tiger, Tony, to LSU.
Sandlin keeps Tony, a 550-pound Siberian-Bengal mix, in 3,200-square-foot enclosure at his rundown truck stop in Grosse Tete, practically within the shadow of Tiger Stadium but deep within the miasma of diesel fumes at his rickety place of business. Sandlin was grandfathered into state law in 2014 and allowed to skirt a law that prohibits private ownership of big cats and other large exotic animals.
But poor Tony — poor, poor Tony — lives in a barren cage with a small cinder-block enclosure to escape the heat, all for the minimal and dubious commercial benefit of a paltry stream of Texas- and Mississippi-bound curiosity seekers who pull off the interstate, observe the depressing environs and get back on the road, their day a little more joy-bare for the experience. We’d wager maybe one in 10 actually duck into Sandlin's redneck curio shop of a gas station for a Slim Jim. Sandlin!
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Someone, please, reach out to Sandlin and tell him, if he really loves Tony he’ll do the right thing. Start a petition.
If there's 3 things you don't want to buy from a gas station, it's:
-Sushi
-Live tiger
-Sushi
This post was edited on 10/8/16 at 11:25 am
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Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:19 am to CP3
Those people are stupid. We should be getting a tiger cub
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:20 am to CP3
Why in the absolute frick would they want that?
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:27 am to CP3
I'm all for helping out Tony, but not as the next Mike.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:28 am to LSUfan20005
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I'm all for helping out Tony, but not as the next Mike.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:31 am to CP3
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Grosse Tete, practically within the shadow of Tiger Stadium
20 miles away = within the shadow??? Lol
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:31 am to CP3
I think it would be good for Tony. Poor creature. Why not let him live out his days in a better environment?
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:35 am to MBclass83
How old is Tony?
The last thing LSU wants is to get Tony, only to look for another in a few years.
The last thing LSU wants is to get Tony, only to look for another in a few years.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:38 am to CP3
Is this Tony?
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:40 am to MBclass83
Sounds good though me. frick that gas station owner. Pay him a chunk of change and let's do this. Only PETA would complain and even then it would be on the quiet side just to appease their utopian nut case donors (you know, where we all live on an ark together).
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:41 am to jimmy the leg
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Sounds good though me. frick that gas station owner. Pay him a chunk of change and let's do this. Only PETA would complain and even then it would be on the quiet side just to appease their utopian nut case donors (you know, where we all live on an ark together).
I agree
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:43 am to CP3
If Tony is willing to load into the trailer on game day, I'm willing give him the interim-mascot position for the rest of the season. Kind of like Orgeron, except more civilized and articulate.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:44 am to CP3
off topic but the Diner at the Tiger truck stop has delicious food.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:49 am to Modern
I'm no animal rights nut job but I refuse to stop at that station. I would just as soon run out of gas and walk.
That environment is terrible for that poor cat.
That environment is terrible for that poor cat.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 11:49 am to heartbreakTiger
I agree it should be a cub. He could be trained to like humans like a pet. That would be cool if people could pet him.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 1:04 pm to BamaScoop
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That would be cool if people could pet him
Agree ... you first.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 1:06 pm to BamaScoop
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That would be cool if people could pet him.
Not sure if serious.
Also what difference would it make if we have to look for another tiger in a few years?
Posted on 10/8/16 at 1:09 pm to White Roach
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If Tony is willing to load into the trailer on game day
That's basically what he lives in now, a large trailer
....poor tiger 
Posted on 10/8/16 at 1:11 pm to MBclass83
I have been saying for years we should leave Mike in his habitat on gamedays so everyone can see him. Put Tony in the trailer and bring him in the stadium. Mike gets to stay in his posh quarters, we get a tiger in the stadium and Tony gets out of Grosse Tete for the afternoon. Everybody wins.
Posted on 10/8/16 at 1:18 pm to BamaScoop
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That would be cool if people could pet him.
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