why-animals-do-the-thing:kafkaesque-meat:cutecornflakes:i have no words to say anything about this p
why-animals-do-the-thing:kafkaesque-meat:cutecornflakes:i have no words to say anything about this pic@why-animals-do-the-thing this looks potentially dangerous for that cat. Is this okay, or an example of poor animal care?This is absolutely unsafe for that cat. Even if the tigers can’t get a whole paw through the fence, they could still fatally injure the cat with just one of two claws connecting. I’m not going to say it’s a bad example of animal care because the fence is adequate for the tigers (it’s primary containment, which simply keeps them in - it’s the secondary fencing that keeps people safe), and we have no way to know if that domestic cat is a pet or a stray. I certainly hope whomever took the photo immediately chased it off - that sort of situation often doesn’t end well for the smaller animals. Not to mention the very real possibility that the tigers might grab the cat’s paw and pull inward. This once happened to me when a friend whose dog we did not trust with cats came by to visit with her dog, and we shut the cats up in a room with the door closed while we spent some time with our own dog and hers in the main area of the apartment. One of the cats wanted to know what that strange creature outside the door was and kept waving her paw under the door, which we ignored because it was a closed bedroom door–she’d stop doing it if she didn’t feel safe, right? Our friend’s dog was understandably fascinated by her foot, and we didn’t really think about keeping an eye on him while he watched the door. Cue a bloodcurdling scream, which startled all of us and had us wheeling to the corner with the bedroom door, where the dog was wailing and distressed in front of the closed door. The cat was on the other end of the room, her foreleg wet to the elbow with saliva from the dog. We’re still not sure who screamed, but the dog definitely tried to grab her paw, and probably got scratched on his tongue.Everyone was fine in the end, just scared, but I would not say that this house cat is safe from those tigers while he’s reaching paws into their enclosure. It’s too easy for one of them to decide to drag him into their cage, and if he screams and panics, the house cat will immediately turn into prey in the tigers’ mind. -- source link