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For NIKKI - A tiger question
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:38 pm
by California Girl
Hi NIKKI - The picture of you with the tiger.... Have you posted other pictures of you with the tigers before? It looks so familiar to me!
The videos you posted on the Show Your Face thread were really neat. I would love to go there someday. Somehow it doesn't seem the same as Dolphins in captivity.
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:51 am
by NIKKI
Hi
No I havent posted these pictures before.
I am usually a bit nervous about posting pictures on websites, but this website seems to be full of very nice people so I though I would go for it.
It was one of the best experiances of my life I even got my picture taken with the monk who runs it so I was very happy.
We discussed over and over about the experiance and I cant see what the angle would be to fake it and drug the tigers, they only charge a very small amount to go there and from what I saw they were spending this money on building a massive new compound for the tigers.
I saw no bad treatment and the Tigers looked fit and healthy much better than some I have seen in Zoos
They did have lots of other animals and they were all really tame we even fed a deer bananas !!!!
To be honest we were more worried about the water buffalo wandering around as they are supposed to be very dangerous.
The original Tigers were rescued and I am sure you know what is happening to the wild tigers so maybe they are doing the right thing.
Of course I dont know what goes on behind the scenes but I would hope that being Buddist Monks they would make sure to look after their animals.
Its about an hour and half from Bangkok we booked our own driver for the day (very cheap) that way we got to spend as much time as we wanted there.