[FEL-L] Re: [Phoenix_Exotics] RE: Tiger swats its owner inside cage

[Laura Morin]

but your domestics dont have 3 inch claws that required stitches when they got you...

Laura Morin
lmorin67 at earthlink.net
www.WildAboutCats.org
Exotic Feline Conservation-Education-Rescue 



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Subject: [FEL-L] Re: [Phoenix_Exotics] RE: Tiger swats its owner inside cage


In a message dated 9/13/2006 8:18:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, rrooney at ucwphilly.rr.com writes:
Irony raises its head.

If the tiger had been declawed he would not have been so injured by the swat 
and this wouldn't be in the news.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Maybe this needs to be pointed out to USDA...
What they have failed to mention is that if that Tiger wanted to kill him, he would have been dead.

This wasn't an agressive act on the part of the Tiger, she was startled and apparently new to his compound. 
So he got scratched, so what? I have been scrached more by my domestic animals that my exotic felines. You don't see any reporting on that though...

As for USDA, seems like the pressure is on from the A/R's groups. When I questioned USDA about the declaw issue, it was stated that there are exceptions which in my mind equals selective enforcement.

Vicki
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