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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! |
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Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected
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"?) |
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Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected
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 |
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Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected
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 |
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Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected
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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 |
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Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected
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 -- - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Dog Encounters Bigger Cat Than He Expected
"Adrian" wrote in message om... 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. 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 |
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