Monday, February 11th, 2008
Well yeah, these people probably have a point. China may not be the coolest place on the planet to be a zoo animal. Maybe any kind of animal since they all make it on the menu. Still i’m not going to be all hippocratical about it.
Watching lions and tigers ride freaked out horses would be pretty cool!
8:56 pm on February 12th, 2008 1
I’m with you on this, morally I’m outraged, but as a fan of spectacle I like this idea. Who says Lions and horses and tigers can’t get along? If you ask me, this is just another example of that fabled Chinese patience. Can you imagine how bloody long it must take to train animals like that? Of course, being China, they might have just super-glued the tiger to the horse or something.
Interesting though how the article, from the UK if I recall, spun this into a sort of “the barbarous Chinese are at it again” thing. After all, we westerners only abuse our animals when absolutely necessary, like in Rodeo or Bullfighting, or snake handling, or adventure show making, or for turning them into 99 cent “snackers” at various fast food joints.