It sounds like the tiger may have been in pain, since he was limping. Pain even makes our domestic pussycats snotty at times, so imaging a wild animal!

I don't approve of animal acts for the most part, but S&R's tigers are something like ambassadors for the species, and raise awareness of their plight.

Slighly off-topic, but tiger related: did anyone see the show about rehabbing tiger cubs into the wild? Awesome if they can pull it off, because of all the big cats, tigers breed well in captivity. Mortality among wild cubs is high, but if they could be brought up to "teenages" they could then be introduced and stabilize a population. In theory of course.