So, it appears that these dumbasses were fucking with the tiger. One of them apparently climbed over the fence and dangled his feet down at her or something like that. She jumped, grabbed on, and then used that to get out of the pen.

I can totally see this happening, too. "Ha-hah, little tiger can't get me, hah hah OH MY GOD OHMYGOD PULL ME OUT PULL ME OUT" and his friends are pulling him back while the tiger is using this opportunity to get additional purchase and BAM! The tiger has dumbass steaks for dinner.

She bloods all three. Lets two of them run; kills the third. Stalks the remaining two at her leisure.

Unsurprisingly, what a tiger would do.

So, I'm angry about this. And the more I think about it, the more pissed off I get.

I liked Tatiana the tiger and now she's dead. I like tigers in general. They're my favorite part about the zoo. I have, in the past, made my love for tigers known.

Three kids decide to fuck with the tiger and be dumbasses and because of this - because they didn't follow basic wisdom that four year olds know (e.g., "don't fuck with tigers") - because of this, Tatiana the tiger is dead.

elderdan and I were talking and we figured that the other two kids would eventually cop to the thing, but lay the blame squarely on the dead kid. "We told him it was a bad idea, we tried to get him to stop, etc., etc." I feel horrible for the kid's parents: what a horrible Christmas.

But I feel worse for the tiger.

It's actually refreshing to actually be angry about something new for a change.

Seriously. Tigers = Awesome.

That is all.