Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected

jmcquown wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:



I'm a bit confused about this. Surely if the dog can get in the
tigers can get out.

Tweed


Nope. The dog jumped down into a deep pit and swam across a moat.

Jill

Yeah, it's a lot easier to jump down INTO a pit than up OUT
of it!

MatSav wrote:

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

...
Even
though most cats are supposed to hate water, I've had some
with whom a spray bottle of water was no deterrent for
anything they wanted to do - I could spray till they were
dripping wet, and it had no effect!


I've heard that it's not the water that has the deterrent effect
(I've been owned by cats that loved the rain), it's the hissing
sound made by the spray bottle. Imitating the sound using your
own mouth should have the same effect - especially if the cat
believes you to be the dominant male / female.

Whatever. Miu, especially (the one who threatened my cat
collection whenever he thought I'd been on the telephone too
long) never let antyhing distract him when he wanted to do
something! Believe me, I tried hissing, hand-clapping, and
everything else I could think of - he was one stubborn
cat! (Who was it who said "you can never out-stubborn a cat"?)

Adrian wrote:

wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:


jmcquown wrote:

There's debate about whether or not there was water in the
moat at the San Francisco zoo. Frankly, I think tigers like to
bathe so that wouldn't be a deterrant... just IMO.

If the program on Animal Planet that showed tiger cubs
playing in a river were authentic, yes, they do! (Even
though most cats are supposed to hate water [snip]

Tigers are well-known for their love of water and being good swimmers.
It's unusual within the cat family, but there you have it. It's just
another application of the Law of Cat Uniqueness, with which all of us
here are quite familiar: For any statement one could make about "all
cats", there exists at least one cat who disproves that statement.
I guess this also applies to cat *species*.

(Oh, there's also the fishing cat. I don't know if they swim, but if
their main source of food is fish, I would imagine they get into the
water a fair amount!)

Joyce


I think almost all cats are capable of swimming it's just most choose not
too.

Yes, they will if they HAVE to, to avoid drowning.
(Although my former accompanist swore that, when a Siamese
stray his mom was feeding accidently fell into the swimming
pool while getting a drink, it appeared to leap to the roof
of the adjacent cabana without ever actually touching the
water!)

On Jan 9, 11:06*am, Will in New Haven
wrote:
On Jan 9, 9:44*am, "jmcquown" wrote:

A lab/golden retriever mix dog got more than he bargained for when he
wandered into the Memphis zoo and jumped into the 'Cat Country' enclosure.

http://tinyurl.com/27zkg4

He was mauled by a Sumatran tiger. *The dog has been treated by zoo
officials and they are trying to locate its owners.

I know the story isn't remotely funny but I can just imagine the look on
that dog's face when it ran into a 900 lb. cat. *"Ooops! *Nice kitty
kitty... nice kitty!"

Jill

I find it worrisome that the dog could get _into_ the enclosure. Is
there a chance the tiger could get out as happened recently? BTW, I
don't have time to read the article at work but did they really say
that the Sumatran (a small variety of tiger) weighed that much?

Our Airdales, which were playfully aggressive with cats (never hurt
them but loved to harrass them) met a bobcat once. It was bad for
everyone involved.

Will in New Haven

--

For those interested, there is now a video on CNN.com of the dog and
the tiger involved. A Zoo official shows how it came about. The
Tiger weighed 250lbs.

Marilyn in Memphis/Germantown

On Jan 10, 12:40*pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

I'm a bit confused about this. *Surely if the dog can get in the
tigers can get out.

Tweed

Nope. *The dog jumped down into a deep pit and swam across a moat.

Jill

Yeah, it's a lot easier to jump down INTO a pit than up OUT
of it!

This should be the link to the video on CNN.com.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/....by.tiger.wreg

You can see how easy it was for her to get into the enclosure, but it
would be very hard for the cats to get out. Everything is slanted to
the inside with the moat being deep and wide enough to keep the Tigers
from getting a footing anywhere. One article I read said that when
they used smoke and noise to distract the tigers and opened their
night house (cave), the cats were more than willing to go inside and
leave the dog. She lay there so still they thought she was dead, but
then got up and was able to walk out.

The Zoo says it is not unusual for the neighborhood pets to try to
come in the service entrance, but they usually catch them and send
them on their way. This one was a bit too agile I guess. A really
sweet looking dog. I hope they find her owners. An yes . . . they
are calling her "Tiger". They said "Lucky" was just too much of an
understatement. I think what probably saved her a bit was that the
Tiger was as shocked to see her as she was to see such a large kitty.

Marilyn in Memphis/Germantown

wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:40 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

I'm a bit confused about this. Surely if the dog can get in the
tigers can get out.

Tweed

Nope. The dog jumped down into a deep pit and swam across a moat.

Jill

Yeah, it's a lot easier to jump down INTO a pit than up OUT
of it!

This should be the link to the video on CNN.com.


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/....by.tiger.wreg

You can see how easy it was for her to get into the enclosure, but it
would be very hard for the cats to get out. Everything is slanted to
the inside with the moat being deep and wide enough to keep the Tigers
from getting a footing anywhere. One article I read said that when
they used smoke and noise to distract the tigers and opened their
night house (cave), the cats were more than willing to go inside and
leave the dog. She lay there so still they thought she was dead, but
then got up and was able to walk out.

The Zoo says it is not unusual for the neighborhood pets to try to
come in the service entrance, but they usually catch them and send
them on their way. This one was a bit too agile I guess. A really
sweet looking dog. I hope they find her owners. An yes . . . they
are calling her "Tiger". They said "Lucky" was just too much of an
understatement. I think what probably saved her a bit was that the
Tiger was as shocked to see her as she was to see such a large kitty.

Marilyn in Memphis/Germantown

Hi Marilyn!

Jill in Cordova

On Jan 10, 1:45*pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
MatSav wrote:
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

...
Even
though most cats are supposed to hate water, I've had some
with whom a spray bottle of water was no deterrent for
anything they wanted to do - I could spray till they were
dripping wet, and it had no effect!

I've heard that it's not the water that has the deterrent effect
(I've been owned by cats that loved the rain), it's the hissing
sound made by the spray bottle. Imitating the sound using your
own mouth should have the same effect - especially if the cat
believes you to be the dominant male / female.

Whatever. *Miu, especially (the one who threatened my cat
collection whenever he thought I'd been on the telephone too
long) never let antyhing distract him when he wanted to do
something! *Believe me, I tried hissing, hand-clapping, and
* everything else I could think of - he was one stubborn
cat! *(Who was it who said "you can never out-stubborn a cat"?)

Robert A. Heinlein, but Feather told him "I'm not stubborn, Mr.
Heinlein. I'm just in charge"

Will in New Haven

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

jmcquown wrote:

There's debate about whether or not there was water in the
moat at the San Francisco zoo. Frankly, I think tigers like to
bathe so that wouldn't be a deterrant... just IMO.

If the program on Animal Planet that showed tiger cubs
playing in a river were authentic, yes, they do! (Even
though most cats are supposed to hate water [snip]

Tigers are well-known for their love of water and being good swimmers.
It's unusual within the cat family, but there you have it. It's just
another application of the Law of Cat Uniqueness, with which all of us
here are quite familiar: For any statement one could make about "all
cats", there exists at least one cat who disproves that statement.
I guess this also applies to cat *species*.

(Oh, there's also the fishing cat. I don't know if they swim, but if
their main source of food is fish, I would imagine they get into the
water a fair amount!)

Joyce

I think almost all cats are capable of swimming it's just most choose not
too.


Maybe tigers are a little different. Most of them were in water, bathing
and swimming when I saw some last summer. It was a long time since I saw
any and had forgotten how huge they were and what an attititude they had.
We got well sprayed by urine by a tigress. I don't blame her, in her
position I might I tried to do the same g
"stop looking at me, and just p*** off!"

Tweed