The Wonderful Thing About Tigger

Today was a lovely day. Christmas breakfast in the morning included pouched salmon in vegetable gelatin (the description doesn't do its presentation and deliciousness an justice), some ham, horse-radish, and bread. Then I went to the beach. Isn't San Diego amazing? This has really been one of the best Christmas holidays in years. Everyone was so happy. No one was stressed, nobody was yelling at each other, and nobody got killed by a tiger.

Unlike somebody today. Did you hear about this?

Read the article at CNN.com.

Can you imagine how terrible that would be? I know I transitioned into this subject in a manner that was a little unsensitive, but really... I can't even imagine that. Sitting in a café and seeing a tiger? And then to be attacked?I would just think it to be a dream. What a horrible thing to happen on a holiday which is for spending time with your loved ones.

Oh well. It's too bad that someone got killed, but I think it's just as bad that they killed the tiger. There are less tigers in the world than people, and we got to keep the gene pools strong in in both. For the tiger: we just need as many individuals as possible to diversify the population. For the human: this allows those with adequate escape and/or tiger-fighting skills to survive and pass on those qualities to subsequent generations. Excellent!

But really now, what would you expect a tiger to do? Not take the opportunity to possibly escape its restricted life? It doesn't know that there isn't a place it can go outside of its fenced-off area. If you think about it, more dangerous things are released all the time without too much of a second-thought. Think about how many rapists, child molesters, murders, drug dealers, etc. end up getting out of prison, or who go unconvicted. Those people hurt many more others much more often. But I guess, how are you supposed to restrain a tiger? Can it even be restrained? When it's running around killing people it's difficult to try to tranquilize it. Such a method doesn't always work, and I'm sure that a pissed off animals that has just been who with something would attack the shooter first.

Man. That's crazy. I might have to change my mind about wanting a tiger.