How you keep a gator and a tiger in your apartment?

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― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 6 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I read that story earlier today. My favorite is where the guy talks about feeding the tiger by throwing raw chickens through a door opened just wide enough that it can't get its paw through.

Plus they were all calling it "an alligator-like reptile"...like WTF MYSTERY LIZARD!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 October 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

there's gotta be a wicked punchline to that question.

How you keep a gator and a tiger in your apartment?

sleeping head-to-claw/paw on the pull-out couch
very carefully
child-safety gates
duct tape
not for very long

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 6 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a caiman, not an alligator.

Fave quotes from the NY Times story:

Mr. Yates's brother Aaron, 24, said Antoine Yates cared for his animals and never wanted to hurt them.

"His love for animals started when we were babies," he said. "He would nurse animals off the street. He got that from my mother."

"He was straight up," he added. "He raised a healthy tiger. They should find him a job with animals."

― hstencil, Monday, 6 October 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The alligator is the least troubling bit, though, stence. A fucking tiger! I want one.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 6 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Did he find the tiger on the street and take it home? How does someone get a tiger? Were the two animals in different rooms, or were they pals?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 6 October 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

There must have been a couple different Times stories. In the one in Sunday morning's paper, they had the head vet (something like that) from the Bronx zoo give an expert quote that went something like: "If that tiger would have escaped, it would have been real bad." Honest! And then they ended the piece with some guy on the street who said it was said they were shipping the tiger to Ohio, because he'd miss all of Harlem's jazz and hip-hop. In that piece, the caiman was just referred to as "a four-foot long reptile"; people reading it who never heard of a caiman before probably thought it was a snake or something, since there was no "alligator-like" anywhere in the piece.(Basically, caimans are just small alligators, right? Babies get sold as baby alligators to tourists in Florida, I think.) Anyway, given what happened at the Siegried and Roy show later on in the weekend, it's probably good they tranquilized this tiger when they did. Unless the Siegfried and Roy one was just seeking revenge for all tigers. (Only thing that could've topped these two stories tiger-wise, by the way, is if the Detroit Tigers hadn't flubbed up on breaking the '62 Mets 120-game season loss record, but no dice. Wait til next year...)

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

it was said they were shipping the tiger to Ohio = "it was sad, etc."

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

How does someone get a tiger?

Supposedly there's an underground network of exotic animal dealers, and if you're prepared to pay and don't mind breaking the law, you can get big cats and other wild animals. (It's actually not illegal in some states still to keep big wildcats at pets, but you're generally required to have very specific types of facilities to keep the cat from getting out and protect the public. One room in an apartment presumably doesn't cut it.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, there was that ferris bueller meets vito corleone movie about it

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"very carefully," bwahahaha ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

More than you could ever wish to know about living in a confined space with a hungry tiger = available to you in Yann Martel's _Life of Pi_. Ok, so that's a) a lifeboat and b) fictional, but it might shed some light!

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is in my top five books evah, by the way.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck tigers, I want an ocelot.

http://www.lioncrusher.com/ecard/ocelot.jpg

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You and Honey West.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yann Martel is living in my province right now. He's the Writer-in-Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

For a while I wanted an ocicat.

http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/jpgs-bob/ocicat.jpg

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I want this one: http://www.hoglezoo.org/images/cub.jpg
or this one: http://i.timeinc.net/TFK/media/magazines/2001b/photos/011005_panda_special.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Choice between a cuddly carnivore or fluffy herbivore? Damn, which to scare the neighbors?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(Only thing that could've topped these two stories tiger-wise, by the way, is if the Detroit Tigers hadn't flubbed up on breaking the '62 Mets 120-game season loss record, but no dice. Wait til next year...)

I was so sad when they failed to make the record!

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/~besmirched/GIGO17.JPG http://www.lioncrusher.com/ecard/ocelot.jpg

CUTENESS ATTACK! CUTENESS ATTACK! ARRRGGHH!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Cuteness overload!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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