Texas man encounters tiger on the loose, says she ‘started licking me on the face’
Source: Washington Post
Jonathan Gessner said he saw the tiger crouching down. At first, he was scared, Gessner told the Houston Chronicle.But he approached the animal anyway.
The closer I got, she started shaking her butt, like cat getting in attack mode, you know? he said. I thought about turning around, but I was like, nah, I want to see what she does.'
Sure, sure. Please continue, Jonathan.
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She, out of nowhere, took off running towards me, put her paws on my shoulders and started licking me in the face, Gessner told the newspaper. I was really scared at first.
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jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Unfortunately, it will grow into an adult tiger who knows they are. What idiot thinks owning a tiger is a good idea?
ret5hd
(20,495 posts)someone that fancies themselves a "big game hunter" and is willing to pay the bucks to prove it.
This little cub is destined for the killing floor.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"What idiot thinks owning a tiger is a good idea?"
A rescue farm... from which the tiger escaped after a transfer due to the local flooding?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The fact that he was a Texan makes that more likely.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)saturnsring
(1,832 posts)so ....
zalinda
(5,621 posts)and eat your monkey. All's fair, after all.
Z
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I don't think running away (top median speed: 21.1 mph) would have changed the potential negative outcome if the tiger (top median speed: 40 mph) chased him (other than giving him a possible 3.3 seconds of additional existence).
Indeed, the tiger's disposition as it stood, may have been impacted towards a wholly different reaction has the man bolted.
Richard D
(8,754 posts). . . down in the Amazon. She told me that if a Jaguar is ever stalking you, to run as fast as you can. I said that you can't outrun a Jaguar, and she said no, you can't. But if you run fast chances are that the jaguar will kill you when she catches you. Otherwise she might take you back to her den and play with you for a few days before eating you (think a cat playing with a mouse), without killing you right away, btw.
That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)Indians walking in areas where there are tigers wear a mask with a face on the back of their heads.
from the Boston Globe
Xithras
(16,191 posts)No. Common. Sense.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)mainer
(12,022 posts)He should try that with a Grizzly.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)I raised severals litters of rats with cats and the cats never treated them as food. But they still caught and ate any wild mouse that got in the house. The difference is that they are bored if you are not afraid, and the domestic rats were not afraid and did not run from the cats. Your biggest risk with a big cat is that they will get friendly and try to "play".
I have also noticed that large animals of all sorts seem nicer to humans of the opposite sex. Mean male dogs that are aggressive towards men usually do not threaten me, but the alpha female across the street was always trying to chase me off until I decided to lay down on my back one day and act like a submissive female. Now she is ok with me.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)where she was used to interacting with humans.
Incredible story!
K&R, thanks for posting, jpak
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)In Africa Texas????
shanti
(21,675 posts)it's perfectly legal to own a tiger in texas.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)since everything should be perfectly legal there.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Will wonders never cease?
callous taoboy
(4,585 posts)site like DU.
KatyMan
(4,198 posts)Texan all my life, don't own a gun, never been on a horse, politically a bit to the right of Marx...kind of tired of this shit too. Perhaps people don't know about Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin? About as right wing as you can get right there.
callous taoboy
(4,585 posts)I read it right here on good old "progressive" D.U. I am also a life-long Texan and I love this state. Only fools broad-brush an entire state or region.
littlebit
(1,728 posts)Born and raised in West Texas never owed or even wanted a gun and horses scare me.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)It was callled Ronald Reagan and Mush Limpballs and they haven't stopped drinking it.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)There's a reason I don't live there anymore.
Okay, there are a lot of reasons why I don't live there anymore.
Thank you for being Texan and progressive at the same time. Someday, for the love of God, can we turn the state blue? Please?
whistler162
(11,155 posts)one.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I read it and just cracked up with the looking like she was going to attack so I got closer to see what she would do?!?! This is a guy that the other 90% of the time they would be holding a wake for.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I was going to edit it so the end loops to the beginning, but I can't find the source material for it. It is the Meta Cat, so when ever someone talks about metadata or locking a thread because of meta...I see this ca.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Check my post from 2 hours earlier...
I think you are supposed to talk to them and make yourself big as you keep eye contact and walk away at a normal pace.
I remember that from working in the parks. Plus Washington baby!!!! We have some of the best parks and hikes in the US!!!!! Home of REI!!! We go out backpacking a ton here.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I think you are supposed to talk to them and make yourself big as you keep eye contact and walk away at a normal pace.
Edit:I was mostly right! I may have lived. The first thing is to not move or talk if it has not seen you. But it did spot him, so while it does not say moving away is bad while talking, it does say look big and loud.
http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Tiger-Attack
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I have also herd we blow their cat minds if we step outside what they expect. They have a bit of the wtf moment and leave. There was a documentary on mountain lions I saw once where they followed a female one that got pregnant. She charged the guy once, but just jumped at him and did not attack him. After she had her kittens and he was watching she approached him. The guy was freaking out a as she got close enough you could hear one of he loudest purrs you had ever heard. She came up and laid down on his lap. The guy was very freaked out (they had a guy with a rifle trained on her the whole time). Her kitten then came up and were too scared of him to get close, just hissed. Tried to find that documentary again, but never did.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)"Tastes like chicken.... yum."