R I P Tatiana

[Lady's Human]

From the LA Times:

Police Chief Fong said the first report that a tiger was loose and might have injured people came in to fire dispatch at 5:07 p.m. Tuesday and that police were dispatched a minute later. She said police found Sousa outside the tiger enclosure and then located the tiger a few hundred yards away at the Terrace Cafe. She said officers saw the tiger sitting by an injured person and then saw the animal begin to attack that person.

And a tranq gun would have helped the human victim how? Tranquilizers take time to work, and the dosage needs to be fairly accurate.

The story also goes on to say that they were reluctant to shoot the tiger because of the proximity of the victim, but had no choice when the tiger charged them.

[caseysmom]

I think the police officers did what they had to do, here is an interesting article about this zoo and I especially agree with the last paragraph.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../MNNQU63KP.DTL

[Alysser]

I hope no one thinks I meant to say that the Boy should be dead but if he was taunting the tiger he is at fault to. As we always say about pitbulls animals are not born vicious. The tiger obviously did not just decide to jump over the fence and kill someone because it felt like it. They said they found stones in the pen. They must have got the tiger mad enough, and all she was doing was defending herself. Caseysmom, I agree with you that the fence should have been higher, but then again what those boys did(if they did it and there is not a doubt in my mind) was just as wrong.

[caseysmom]

I read and I think its in the article I posted but I am not positive but I did read that Tatiana was up on the fence and angry for some time and a mother reported it to the zoo a while back and they did nothing. I am not saying the boys are faultless but it seems like there were a lot of things leading up to this. No I don't think the boy should be dead and I think Tatiana should have been protected better too.