Nancy Young wrote:
> Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> Rhonda Anderson > wrote:
>
>>> Is this lack of concern in relation to fault restricted to domestic
>>> animals? If someone jumps into a pool full of polar bears and gets
>>> mauled (as happened recently) should the bears be despatched as a
>>> "threat to the species"?
>>
>> I think it was a year ago Christmas. Three young men apparently
>> thought it was fun to throw stuff at a tiger. The tiger got mad. One
>> man dead, two injured. Police killed the tiger, as you don't
>> want a mad tiger wandering around with a bunch of people.
>
> I never did hear why that German woman jumped in with the polar
> bears or how badly she was injured. I'm pretty sure they didn't
> feel the need to kill the innocent bear.

She didn't jump in. Apparently she felt the bear needed a friend or a
hug or was trying to talk to it or something and leaned into the
enclosure, and fell in. They didn't have to kill the bears to get her
out, but it was coming pretty close to it and she was being pawed and
nipped and mauled all the way out.

They killed the tiger 1) because it was out of its enclosure and 2)
because it was still with one of its victims, who was alive at the time.
To get the victim, they had to dispatch the cat. What a shame to kill a
beautiful animal for being itself.

I hope they sent the dumb ass woman from the polar bear incident to get
her head shrunk. How ignorant, self-centered and disturbed is it to
think that a wild animal needs a scratch behind the ears or whatever she
thought she was doing. It's incredibly obvious that these animals aren't
teddy bears, yet people still forget or overlook that they are predators
in the wild, and one of many wild animals that will run down and kill a
human being if they want to.