I've never seen their show, so maybe I'm not supposed to be speaking up, but something tell me that if there were any issues with the way these Tigers are treated in capitivity by Siegfried and Roy, then we would have heard about it before now, and something would have been done about it long ago. This is a risk that I am sure they understood when they started doing this years ago. I do NOT think he got what he deserved, but probably will say (provided he can speak about it one day) that it is a risk he understood and was willing to take.

I just pray that he will be ok. And I pray that the Tiger will be well cared for, even if he never goes back on stage. This is a horrible incident, and one that we should all feel badly about, for the animal and for the trainer.