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What is your opinion of private ownership of Lions and Tigers?

Posted on 8/27/26 at 7:46 pm
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
36672 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 7:46 pm

I'm ready to eradicate pit bulls and we’ve got dudes with lions behind chain link fences in their backyards.

I pretty high on the freedom scale, but banning individuals from owning big cats, poisonous snakes, etc, is cool with me.


This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 9:00 am
Posted by TexasTiger33
United States of America
Member since Feb 2022
16208 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 7:48 pm to
I don't think it's right because they deserve to live free

Almost feel the same way about an aquarium, but I might get me a nurse shark here soon and make a whole
s-water setup

Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
184775 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 7:51 pm to
The big cat trade is full of inbreeding and illegal trade

Only established conservation groups and zoos should be allowed to have them in the name of preserving them from going extinct

LSU fits that standard. Private individuals do not.
This post was edited on 8/27/26 at 7:52 pm
Posted by ob1pimpbobi
College Station
Member since Jul 2022
3291 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 8:15 pm to
I will one go further. I hate Zoo’s. They are depressing. Those animals are not meant to be in cages for our children entertainment.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
184775 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 8:17 pm to
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I will one go further. I hate Zoo’s. They are depressing. Those animals are not meant to be in cages for our children entertainment.



Many animal species would be completely extinct or near extinction today without zoos and aquariums
Posted by ob1pimpbobi
College Station
Member since Jul 2022
3291 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 8:20 pm to
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Many animal species would be completely extinct or near extinction today without zoos and aquariums


Totally get that. However, there are ways to help a species without putting them in cages.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106161 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 8:21 pm to
Omar, tyfys
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
63389 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 8:23 pm to
quote:

What is your opinion of private ownership of Lions and Tigers?


NFL is the ultra rich Republican Club

They own The Lions, The Tigers (defunct Cleveland team), and DA BEARS!

The Packers are the only NFL team that is both public AND non profit

They have over 1/2 million shareholders
Posted by Prominentwon
LSU, McNeese St. Fan
Member since Jan 2005
95101 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:05 pm to
What about bears?
Posted by LSUA 75
Colfax,La.
Member since Jan 2019
5145 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:56 pm to
What about elephants?
If I was seriously rich I’d like to have an elephant.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
63389 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:59 pm to
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I was seriously rich I’d like to have an elephant.


Shoveled a lot of poop in my days, you need $$$$ for the labor to pick up LOTS of elephant poop.
Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
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Posted on 8/27/26 at 10:18 pm to
Posted by Rabby
Member since Mar 2021
1908 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 1:07 am to
I have seen a few privately or corporately owned large cats. It is very rarely a good situation for the cats.

Even some zoos are pretty poor.

Not a fan of most of what I have seen in how these animals wind up living.
Posted by Outdoorreb
Member since Oct 2019
2777 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:57 am to
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I ready to eradicate pit bulls and we’ve got dudes with lions behind chain link fences in their backyards.


You going to tell me how many breaths I am allowed in day next? Eradicate? Talk about the ego you got. How about discussing legal permits first.

Sorry you weren’t born a dictator like you wish you would have been. No, I have never owned any kind of bulldog in my life. I I will stick with cattle and bird dogs.
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
30599 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:59 am to
I'm not sure about Lions and Tigers but there's a ton of Cougars around here.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
36779 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 7:01 am to
quote:

What is your opinion of private ownership of Lions and Tigers?



Made for an amazing documentary on Netflix
Posted by Shut Up Mulllet
Member since Apr 2021
1023 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 7:54 am to
Only certain people.
Only for rehabilitation.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
62257 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 7:56 am to
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What about bears?


Oh yeah

All of them.
Posted by SparkyWilson
Member since May 2026
294 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 9:41 am to
Bad idea to keep any wild animal confined in a domestic setting save a zoo. Like that highly misguided couple that kept a chimpanzee as a pet and treated it like a person while keeping it heavily medicated for compliance. It then literally went ape on a friend of the family who was holding its doll trying to get it to come back inside.
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
Member since Aug 2018
18957 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 9:59 am to
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WOW, they weren't kidding... A 300-pound lioness and her cub really are on the loose in Indiana

The lioness was wearing a BLUE HARNESS.

Nobody reported a missing lion. No sanctuary is short a lion.

No permits exist to own a lion in that county.

Somebody in Indiana has an illegal lion and suddenly REAL quiet

Source: NYP, G101-3 on FB / Writer: Daniel
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