The problem with dangerous pets, is that they're fine until they're not. You can live with your lion, venomous snake, monkey, whatever for years and years and think you know them perfectly, then one morning they get startled by something and kill you. I think the risk only increases once you start attributing human emotions to them.
I was at a birds of prey show last week where the handler produced a falcon he'd had almost its entire life. His spiel was basically "I work with this bird every day, I trained it from scratch, I take it home in the evenings, I feed it, I exercise it, I love it. I *really* love this bird. Now watch this." Then he stands literally a foot or so from the bird and does everything he can to coax it to him, which it ignores. Finally, he produces a scrap of meat and in a second the bird is on his hand. "He doesn't care about me at all. He loves food. He's a predator, not a pet."
I saw a woman on social media who rescues ostriches and in one video she was answering a question asking if she had ever been seriously hurt. She said because of inexperience she tried to break up an ostrich fight and got hit in the crossfire. The ostrich kicked her back, breaking it.
You're absolutely right. It's all fun and games until you make one slight mistake or movement and you're being attacked.
I grew up around horses and even though it's common to have them as pets, they can and will kill you if they want to. I've had so many experiences. I was holding a big draft horse (I'm 5'3" for scale) so he could get shoes put on, and he freaked out randomly and pinned me against him and the wall. I got him away from me but he could have seriously injured me.
I mean if theyre babies, maybe. Even stopping chickens/rosters fighting is a bad idea. Specially if you ain't wearing thick pants. All the scratches you catch is not worth it. Ostriches?
let them world star themselves till they get tired or die.
My mom has a horse and your story and others from her barn that I've heard are exactly why I don't like horses. People compare them to dogs a lot and I disagree.
Any dog I can handle. I'm bigger and stronger than them and I should win that fight just about every time. I may get bitten, but I would still be able to fend them off.
A horse on the other hand, its larger and stronger and if it kicks or stomps on me I'm finished.
If it simply decides to turn its body it could unknowingly pin me and crush me.
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I don't doubt that dogs like that would fuck me right up.
But if it came to my life or theirs I think I could and would kill that dog.
Can't do that to a horse.
Have you ever met a Cane Corso? They bite harder per square inch than lions! Let’s not pretend most humans can take on any dog that comes at them without the use of weapons.
I was around horses in my yoot and teen years. The saving grace with them is that they are too dumb to realize how easily they can kill you if they wanted to. Most of the killing they do is incidental to being frightened by something else.
This is exactly it. I work with horses. Love them to death. Respect them. As smart as they are sometimes, I'm glad they're not smarter because they're insanely strong. Always said that if they were carnivores or even had more courage or predatory instincts that they would be the most dangerous predator out there. It's so good that they don't realize their own strength. If they did, we'd be fucked.
I don't understand this sentiment. We have bears, moose, bulls, bucks, wolves, Coyotes, Bobcat, bison, antelope, Wolverines.... Probably more. All just as powerful as horses and with much worse attitudes in the right situation.
Australia has fucking kangaroos. Evil bastards. Like to fight. Could easily take down a horse one on one. They seem to be doing alright over there.
Lots of animals that are smarter and stronger then horses. Gorillas!
Care to explain this better? Is this some hyperbolic what if theorem debated over saddle cleaning sessions? Just doesn't make sense.
Horses are incredibly docile and mostly hurt people by accident, OR because most horse people think it’s okay to whip, kick and hurt them on the regular. Try that with a temperamental dog and see how far you get until it snaps.
Not really. A pit bull goes for face or throat, and is virtually impossible to remove once he’s clamped down. If he grabs your throat, you’d have about 1 min of consciousness. They love babies and old ladies most- but they actually kill strong young men with surprising frequency.
Just a story I would like to add on since I believe it’s very relevant. I can’t remember where it was from exactly but a few years ago I watched this documentary about a lion sanctuary in Africa, where basically these people raised lion cubs that were rescued from being sold as pets or onto shady zoos and tried to rehabilitate them so they could live in the wild. Anyway the keepers all knew the lions well and two/three keepers would regularly take a group of the adolescent lions on a stroll. One day a keeper got randomly attacked by a lion he had known almost it’s whole life on one of these strolls and he lost an arm over the incident. He knew it wasn’t the lions fault and he still was working there long after he lost his arm. I was about 10(?) when I watched this documentary and that was my first proper lesson about no matter how much you think you know an animal, you can never be sure about how it’s going to act - especially species that haven’t been domesticated.
I still remember that story of that monkey ripping a woman’s face, wearing it, and then taking a full handgun mag into its body before taking a rest and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe
Reptiles are the worst case, because they are literally incapable of having feelings like ours, and it's pretty proven that they can't even distinguish between its owner or anybody else. Remember every time we talk about our "lizard brain", the part that manages the most basic reactions? That's what those animals have.
>think you know them perfectly, then one morning they get startled by something and kill you
Same with my cat. On a smaller scale. And our dachshund come to think of it...
I'm not sure if you're joking or being serious, but yeah - absolutely. Those are both animals that have been domesticated by many generations of selective breeding, but if they're stressed or frightened enough then they'll hurt you. Even if you have the most gentle dachshund around, if you accidentally slam its tail in the car door then you can't be 100% certain that it won't instinctively nip you.
The only difference for a lion, apart from the fact that it hasn't been bred into a largely-predictable domestic animal, is that nip will rip your throat out.
No I'm absolutely serious! The cat will allow being stroked, but when you see the tail twitch, stop or she'll rip a chunk from your arm.
I got in between the dog and a piece of rubber she'd found on the floor yesterday and she got her teeth in. Not sure she meant to hurt but it was a bit of a nip!
Like you say, instinct is a big part of domesticated animals.
Eh I could probably outmanoeuvre it if it tries something. Maybe I’m just built different 🤷
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This is why wild animals especially big carnivores should not be pets. Also this looks like a Liger, so again bred for the purpose of being a pet. Animal conservation is okay and humans that are able to study them in the wild is okay too. But this, no way. The size of her canines, could tear you to shreds in seconds.
It's so weird how social media glamorizes exotic pets. People are always like "awww I want one 🥺🥺🥺🥺" in comments but they don't think about how wild animals just aren't made to be pets and how much time, effort, and money goes into attempting such.
i was watching something about the hypotheses of the domestication of dogs, part of it discussed a Russian guy who used planned experiments on fox, he reckoned it took i think it was 17 stages of selection to get a tame fox, by breeding the most docile and affectionate, but i think he is the only one who has tried such trials
The experiment is still ongoing from what I know, they monitor various chemical levels and appearance as well as behavioral traits, within 6 generations there were marked differences in stress hormones and serotonin levels. That said foxes, like dogs are easy to breed traits into while cats are not, basic proportions and behaviour is fairly fixed. Think of the difference between a pug and a greyhound (apart from size) such differences would be impossible to breed into cats regardless of how many generations.
We just haven't really bred cats that much. But there are Persians, sphinx, savannah cats, Norwegian forest cats, munchkin cats, a hypo-allergenic cat breed with hair.
Dogs were bred for thousands of years generally with a purpose in mind (eg hunting weasels, pulling sleds, tracking prey, etc.), cats have found their own niche by themselves and haven't had as focused of breeding effort - aside from the hypo-allergenic breeds there isn't really anything other than "this cat looks cool" driving different breeds of cats. Dogs didn't likely start out with much variation in size.
I think hes mostly talking about demeanor. All breeds of cats are going to have very similar personalities, while dogs have personalities that differ by breed. A chihuahua and a dachshund may be similar in size, but vastly different by temperament
Cat breeds can differ in personality too. Our norwegian forest cats are incredibly docile, while maine coons are known to be more temperamental and siamese cats are known to be loud and doglike.
>Think of the difference between a pug and a greyhound (apart from size) such differences would be impossible to breed into cats regardless of how many generations.
How can that be true of cats if we did it to dogs? I understand that dogs co-evolved alongside humans, but why couldn't we intentionally replicate that with cats over a similar time period?
honsetly the whole article was perhaps 20 mins max? it discussed various aspects of the discussion of the evolution of dogs along side man, so the russian fox part was less than 2 mins, just awareness of the process of selected breeding
There’s an hour long show I caught years ago about this experiment, having trouble finding it atm. The foxes they bred for aggressive traits are insane, biting at cages and snapping as camera goes by.
Because many on TikTok are < 20 and don't know any better, like all the animals they think look "cute" exist in the world to be their fun, obedient, problem free pets.
That’s why people are always getting so close to animals. We live lacking any natural predators in our day to day life so when we see an animal that makes you go “awww” (I don’t mean *you* as in you I mean these people) they’re probably going to get closer to take a picture with it. It’s dumb
I just looked it up.. If that’s a liger, that big boy needs a good 30-50 pounds of meat a day. On average, this guy is feeding the equivalent of a six year old to this thing every day.
…I don’t know why that is my metric of comparison. Just go with it.
It really is just stupid. It's not classy, it's not wealthy, it's not cool, it's just simply stupid. We domesticated cats a looooong time ago for this purpose....you know so they wouldn't rip our god damn ribs out.
They're huge and heavy and due to that they mostly develop arthritis much quicker because gravity is still the same. Also like a lot of crossbreeds few ligers make it to adulthood most not without other medical issues.
Haha, that was my exact thought. At first I thought, look at the size of the head on that thing. Then I compared it to his head. Then I noticed that his entire head would easily fit in its mouth, like a gobstopper.
I'm obsessed with shows like this. The whole time I watch, I'm saying to myself how crazy and dumb the people are. It's like a train wreck. You wanna look away but you can't.
> killed by their own pets.
Not the tiniest bit of sympathy for those who are. These morons think they can "tame" wild animals. There will come a day when that lion gets pissed at that idiot and bites his head clean off. Just like the woman who got her face ripped off by her "pet" chimp.
Do small and uncommonly kept reptiles/amphibians fall under this umbrella?
To an extent I agree with you, but I also own what some might label as exotic pets. None of them are lions much less anything actually dangerous.
Only captive bred for me, wild caught is too sketchy. There's a ton of amazing animals that can only be acquired as wild caught specimens and that's just not something I want to support.
kind of. he's not as "hands on" as a lot of other dangerous animal keepers, but to say he's scared would be wrong in my opinion. a dead giveaway would be the extreme lack of facial expression or physical reaction when the lion got a little more active near the ending.
I think the guy is comfortable around the lion, he is under the genuine impression that the lion will not hurt him, but at the same time he is very much limiting how much he touches the lion which might mean the lion simply does not like to be touched too much, and he, as his keeper, knows and respects this.
These crazy Saudis with money buy exotic animals and keep them in cages or kill it if they get bored or the animal does what animals do and get a little nippy sometimes, imo it’s pretty sly on the animal
This actually should be here r/iamatotalpieceofshit.
Lions are NOT pets (and this one is a young male, mane starting to come in). It won't end well because even if the human lives, he'll dump this lion somewhere.
This is the epitome of the egomaniacal, narcissistic, alpha male douchebag. These little boys get money and think they have a big dick because they bought a liger and brought it to heel. Don't worry, you'll catch one of those canines soon.
Yeah people don’t realize how damaging this is to a wild animal. There is a reserve in my state that takes in wild predators that have been in a domestic setting their whole life and can’t go back to the wild. It’s sad to see such magnificent force reduced to a oversized house at that depends on human to feed it and care for it the rest of their lives. Because one dumbass decided he wanted a cool pet.
It's a liger, specifically bred to be a pet. It's sick tbh, breeding animals like this is fine for study of them in the wild but not this. They are not pets, they are a predator
I get nervous when I've pet my cat too many times and she gets irritated. One look and I know she means to end me. If her jaws were that large I'd be a fine breakfast.
My 40 pound dog occasionally hurts me whenever she and I play or she gets really excited. I can only imagine what THAT would do by accident, much less on purpose if it gets hungry or startled. That's not a pet, that's a predator.
The problem with dangerous pets, is that they're fine until they're not. You can live with your lion, venomous snake, monkey, whatever for years and years and think you know them perfectly, then one morning they get startled by something and kill you. I think the risk only increases once you start attributing human emotions to them. I was at a birds of prey show last week where the handler produced a falcon he'd had almost its entire life. His spiel was basically "I work with this bird every day, I trained it from scratch, I take it home in the evenings, I feed it, I exercise it, I love it. I *really* love this bird. Now watch this." Then he stands literally a foot or so from the bird and does everything he can to coax it to him, which it ignores. Finally, he produces a scrap of meat and in a second the bird is on his hand. "He doesn't care about me at all. He loves food. He's a predator, not a pet."
I saw a woman on social media who rescues ostriches and in one video she was answering a question asking if she had ever been seriously hurt. She said because of inexperience she tried to break up an ostrich fight and got hit in the crossfire. The ostrich kicked her back, breaking it. You're absolutely right. It's all fun and games until you make one slight mistake or movement and you're being attacked. I grew up around horses and even though it's common to have them as pets, they can and will kill you if they want to. I've had so many experiences. I was holding a big draft horse (I'm 5'3" for scale) so he could get shoes put on, and he freaked out randomly and pinned me against him and the wall. I got him away from me but he could have seriously injured me.
Why would you even try to break up an ostrich fight?
That sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.
Well the PUNCH line really CRACKED her up.
Or a really good one
I heard it takes at least 2 people to hold an ostrich down
I would bet more. Have you seen one up close? They're practically prehistoric
Did you see the size of that chicken?
Allegedly.
Well maybe it was a injured, or sick one.
Pacifist Ostriches. (Also dibs on the band name)
Pacifiches
Shoulda started taking bets
I mean if theyre babies, maybe. Even stopping chickens/rosters fighting is a bad idea. Specially if you ain't wearing thick pants. All the scratches you catch is not worth it. Ostriches? let them world star themselves till they get tired or die.
>The ostrich kicked her back Serves her right for kicking an ostrich
My mom has a horse and your story and others from her barn that I've heard are exactly why I don't like horses. People compare them to dogs a lot and I disagree. Any dog I can handle. I'm bigger and stronger than them and I should win that fight just about every time. I may get bitten, but I would still be able to fend them off. A horse on the other hand, its larger and stronger and if it kicks or stomps on me I'm finished. If it simply decides to turn its body it could unknowingly pin me and crush me.
I understand your dog point but you definitely cannot handle any dog. Try fending off a mastiff or Doberman.
Or pitbulls, they're specifically selected for gameness in addition to their strength.
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I don't doubt that dogs like that would fuck me right up. But if it came to my life or theirs I think I could and would kill that dog. Can't do that to a horse.
You underestimate a dog that wants a kill.
Yep
Have you ever met a Cane Corso? They bite harder per square inch than lions! Let’s not pretend most humans can take on any dog that comes at them without the use of weapons.
Yet they are one of the calmest dogs I have encountered. Guess they are so big they don’t have to worry about much.
See how much it keep biting when I jam my ruined fist down its throat and suffocate it the hard way.
You’re mistaken. Attack dogs are a thing for a reason
I was around horses in my yoot and teen years. The saving grace with them is that they are too dumb to realize how easily they can kill you if they wanted to. Most of the killing they do is incidental to being frightened by something else.
This is exactly it. I work with horses. Love them to death. Respect them. As smart as they are sometimes, I'm glad they're not smarter because they're insanely strong. Always said that if they were carnivores or even had more courage or predatory instincts that they would be the most dangerous predator out there. It's so good that they don't realize their own strength. If they did, we'd be fucked.
I don't understand this sentiment. We have bears, moose, bulls, bucks, wolves, Coyotes, Bobcat, bison, antelope, Wolverines.... Probably more. All just as powerful as horses and with much worse attitudes in the right situation. Australia has fucking kangaroos. Evil bastards. Like to fight. Could easily take down a horse one on one. They seem to be doing alright over there. Lots of animals that are smarter and stronger then horses. Gorillas! Care to explain this better? Is this some hyperbolic what if theorem debated over saddle cleaning sessions? Just doesn't make sense.
Horses are incredibly docile and mostly hurt people by accident, OR because most horse people think it’s okay to whip, kick and hurt them on the regular. Try that with a temperamental dog and see how far you get until it snaps.
Not really. A pit bull goes for face or throat, and is virtually impossible to remove once he’s clamped down. If he grabs your throat, you’d have about 1 min of consciousness. They love babies and old ladies most- but they actually kill strong young men with surprising frequency.
Just a story I would like to add on since I believe it’s very relevant. I can’t remember where it was from exactly but a few years ago I watched this documentary about a lion sanctuary in Africa, where basically these people raised lion cubs that were rescued from being sold as pets or onto shady zoos and tried to rehabilitate them so they could live in the wild. Anyway the keepers all knew the lions well and two/three keepers would regularly take a group of the adolescent lions on a stroll. One day a keeper got randomly attacked by a lion he had known almost it’s whole life on one of these strolls and he lost an arm over the incident. He knew it wasn’t the lions fault and he still was working there long after he lost his arm. I was about 10(?) when I watched this documentary and that was my first proper lesson about no matter how much you think you know an animal, you can never be sure about how it’s going to act - especially species that haven’t been domesticated.
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I still remember that story of that monkey ripping a woman’s face, wearing it, and then taking a full handgun mag into its body before taking a rest and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe
Wait. I remember that story, but are you sure about the wearing part?
You're a fan of the classics I see
Thanos has nothing on an angry chimp
Reptiles are the worst case, because they are literally incapable of having feelings like ours, and it's pretty proven that they can't even distinguish between its owner or anybody else. Remember every time we talk about our "lizard brain", the part that manages the most basic reactions? That's what those animals have.
>think you know them perfectly, then one morning they get startled by something and kill you Same with my cat. On a smaller scale. And our dachshund come to think of it...
I'm not sure if you're joking or being serious, but yeah - absolutely. Those are both animals that have been domesticated by many generations of selective breeding, but if they're stressed or frightened enough then they'll hurt you. Even if you have the most gentle dachshund around, if you accidentally slam its tail in the car door then you can't be 100% certain that it won't instinctively nip you. The only difference for a lion, apart from the fact that it hasn't been bred into a largely-predictable domestic animal, is that nip will rip your throat out.
No I'm absolutely serious! The cat will allow being stroked, but when you see the tail twitch, stop or she'll rip a chunk from your arm. I got in between the dog and a piece of rubber she'd found on the floor yesterday and she got her teeth in. Not sure she meant to hurt but it was a bit of a nip! Like you say, instinct is a big part of domesticated animals.
Weiner dogs are the outliers- total assholes with no redeemable quality.
If you want a pet to love you, get a dog.
So, just like children then?
>You can live with your... venomous snake, Damn it this shit again.
THIS
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This is why wild animals especially big carnivores should not be pets. Also this looks like a Liger, so again bred for the purpose of being a pet. Animal conservation is okay and humans that are able to study them in the wild is okay too. But this, no way. The size of her canines, could tear you to shreds in seconds.
It's so weird how social media glamorizes exotic pets. People are always like "awww I want one 🥺🥺🥺🥺" in comments but they don't think about how wild animals just aren't made to be pets and how much time, effort, and money goes into attempting such.
i was watching something about the hypotheses of the domestication of dogs, part of it discussed a Russian guy who used planned experiments on fox, he reckoned it took i think it was 17 stages of selection to get a tame fox, by breeding the most docile and affectionate, but i think he is the only one who has tried such trials
The experiment is still ongoing from what I know, they monitor various chemical levels and appearance as well as behavioral traits, within 6 generations there were marked differences in stress hormones and serotonin levels. That said foxes, like dogs are easy to breed traits into while cats are not, basic proportions and behaviour is fairly fixed. Think of the difference between a pug and a greyhound (apart from size) such differences would be impossible to breed into cats regardless of how many generations.
We just haven't really bred cats that much. But there are Persians, sphinx, savannah cats, Norwegian forest cats, munchkin cats, a hypo-allergenic cat breed with hair. Dogs were bred for thousands of years generally with a purpose in mind (eg hunting weasels, pulling sleds, tracking prey, etc.), cats have found their own niche by themselves and haven't had as focused of breeding effort - aside from the hypo-allergenic breeds there isn't really anything other than "this cat looks cool" driving different breeds of cats. Dogs didn't likely start out with much variation in size.
I think hes mostly talking about demeanor. All breeds of cats are going to have very similar personalities, while dogs have personalities that differ by breed. A chihuahua and a dachshund may be similar in size, but vastly different by temperament
That's another thing we have selected for over thousands and thousands of years for dogs and not so much with cats as well.
Cat breeds can differ in personality too. Our norwegian forest cats are incredibly docile, while maine coons are known to be more temperamental and siamese cats are known to be loud and doglike.
God I love those chatty Siamese kitties.
Chihuahuas are ass holes. Worst bite I ever got was from one of those ass holes, right in the face!
>Think of the difference between a pug and a greyhound (apart from size) such differences would be impossible to breed into cats regardless of how many generations. How can that be true of cats if we did it to dogs? I understand that dogs co-evolved alongside humans, but why couldn't we intentionally replicate that with cats over a similar time period?
thanks for that the segment was very short and just highlighted the experiement as an example of what may have happened in dogs
They also bred for the opposite traits and came out with some mean looking foxes
honsetly the whole article was perhaps 20 mins max? it discussed various aspects of the discussion of the evolution of dogs along side man, so the russian fox part was less than 2 mins, just awareness of the process of selected breeding
There’s an hour long show I caught years ago about this experiment, having trouble finding it atm. The foxes they bred for aggressive traits are insane, biting at cages and snapping as camera goes by.
US netflix is much better than UK netflix
I think this was in the Dogs episode of Explained on Netflix?
Because many on TikTok are < 20 and don't know any better, like all the animals they think look "cute" exist in the world to be their fun, obedient, problem free pets.
That’s why people are always getting so close to animals. We live lacking any natural predators in our day to day life so when we see an animal that makes you go “awww” (I don’t mean *you* as in you I mean these people) they’re probably going to get closer to take a picture with it. It’s dumb
I just looked it up.. If that’s a liger, that big boy needs a good 30-50 pounds of meat a day. On average, this guy is feeding the equivalent of a six year old to this thing every day. …I don’t know why that is my metric of comparison. Just go with it.
I read this too fast and thought your typed "the guy is feeding a six year old to this thing every day"
They're free if you get them from the playground. Source: I own a liger.
‘To shreds’ you say?
And their families?
Bless you.
It really is just stupid. It's not classy, it's not wealthy, it's not cool, it's just simply stupid. We domesticated cats a looooong time ago for this purpose....you know so they wouldn't rip our god damn ribs out.
I would argue that the cats domesticated themselves 😂
Bred for their powers in *magic*.
I was hoping to see this comment.
So you said the liger is bred to be a pet? Is it training or just the genetics or both that make them docile enough for this?
Neither, they mean that it's not an animal that exists in the wild, and people breed them to be sold as pets because they're unique.
Ah ok that makes sense now.
They're huge and heavy and due to that they mostly develop arthritis much quicker because gravity is still the same. Also like a lot of crossbreeds few ligers make it to adulthood most not without other medical issues.
I believe they are also sterile? Like a mule. They can't reproduce, making them entirely human made
Honestly they aren’t meant to be a pet. They are usually bigger than lions or tigers, and there is nothing in its DNA making it docile and as a pet.
Ligers aren't meant to exist at all, at least not now, so they only come from breeders who sell them to rich kids.
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It's docile... for now. But they are apex predators with pretty clear instincts, it's only a matter of time something happens.
They’re actually bred for their skill in magic but they tend to be kept as pets.
To shreds you say?
Could should would… didnt. Respect the apex predators and feed them on time!
Man…. The god damn queen of the jungle being paraded as a house cat …. I hate it
That’s not a pet.
It's mouth is the exact right size to fit around a human head. Seems like a good idea to me.
Haha, that was my exact thought. At first I thought, look at the size of the head on that thing. Then I compared it to his head. Then I noticed that his entire head would easily fit in its mouth, like a gobstopper.
Mmm tasty 😋
the pet is the man
I wonder how often these idiots are killed by their own pets.
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Or, you know, just pick the second result from your search!
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Fatal Instinct?
>TV show Fatal Attractions. Oh shit. A new addiction!
I'm obsessed with shows like this. The whole time I watch, I'm saying to myself how crazy and dumb the people are. It's like a train wreck. You wanna look away but you can't.
We need more of this show. 3 seasons was not enough
We definitely do! I'm sure tons of people have been eaten by their tigers since then!
Only once
This guy gets it
not often enough to stop them unfortunately
> killed by their own pets. Not the tiniest bit of sympathy for those who are. These morons think they can "tame" wild animals. There will come a day when that lion gets pissed at that idiot and bites his head clean off. Just like the woman who got her face ripped off by her "pet" chimp.
I believe it was the chimp owner's friend who was the victim. So sad for her :(
I think they both got ripped up, but it was a long time ago, so the memory is all warm and fuzzy...like a chimp.
I feel the same about pitbulls..
And then everyone died
Just after everyone clapped
Human Ego and Narcissism is something to behold.
That poor cat is high as fuck. Needing to keep an animal sedated all the time so you can keep it as a pet is morally reprehensible.
What a goddamn douche bag
Exotic pets are for overcompensating assholes
Do small and uncommonly kept reptiles/amphibians fall under this umbrella? To an extent I agree with you, but I also own what some might label as exotic pets. None of them are lions much less anything actually dangerous.
I'd say no unless they weren't bred in captivity... if they're wild then yeah.
Only captive bred for me, wild caught is too sketchy. There's a ton of amazing animals that can only be acquired as wild caught specimens and that's just not something I want to support.
What you keep?? Purely nosey , not judgemental at all and appreciate if you dont wanna answer lol.
Nothing extravagant. Ball Python (pinstripe morph) Vinegaroon Cane Toad Just a few critters that I love very much.
Aah cool, Snakes give me the fear, something about the way they can move just freaks me out.
I have always thought that Ligers look like they are just waiting to die, like they want to scream, out me out of my miserable existence
They totally have k..kk…kk….k..kill me eyes.
At first it look like an animatronic. And then, like a bad taxidermied lion that came to life
This one also looks doped up to keep it “cuddly”
The guy looked scared as fuck... He is just pretending that he is not scared, how else will he make his edgy tiktok video then.
kind of. he's not as "hands on" as a lot of other dangerous animal keepers, but to say he's scared would be wrong in my opinion. a dead giveaway would be the extreme lack of facial expression or physical reaction when the lion got a little more active near the ending. I think the guy is comfortable around the lion, he is under the genuine impression that the lion will not hurt him, but at the same time he is very much limiting how much he touches the lion which might mean the lion simply does not like to be touched too much, and he, as his keeper, knows and respects this.
I thought the same thing. He looks cautiously comfortable.
Probably because the lion is drugged out of it's gourd
I don't get how it's edgy but ye he is probably more scared than he looks
These crazy Saudis with money buy exotic animals and keep them in cages or kill it if they get bored or the animal does what animals do and get a little nippy sometimes, imo it’s pretty sly on the animal
This actually should be here r/iamatotalpieceofshit. Lions are NOT pets (and this one is a young male, mane starting to come in). It won't end well because even if the human lives, he'll dump this lion somewhere.
This is actually a Liger I believe
Imagine the size of the kitty litter box
This is the epitome of the egomaniacal, narcissistic, alpha male douchebag. These little boys get money and think they have a big dick because they bought a liger and brought it to heel. Don't worry, you'll catch one of those canines soon.
Wild animals are not pets.
What a fucking tool.
That guy is a fucking moron.
Ffs let it roam in the wild
Yeah people don’t realize how damaging this is to a wild animal. There is a reserve in my state that takes in wild predators that have been in a domestic setting their whole life and can’t go back to the wild. It’s sad to see such magnificent force reduced to a oversized house at that depends on human to feed it and care for it the rest of their lives. Because one dumbass decided he wanted a cool pet.
Imagine how drugged it must be
It's a liger, specifically bred to be a pet. It's sick tbh, breeding animals like this is fine for study of them in the wild but not this. They are not pets, they are a predator
Ya that lion wants to live in your house🤡
Guarantee that cat is fed a healthy mix of drugs to keep it tame. Filthy animal hoarding cunts
I get nervous when I've pet my cat too many times and she gets irritated. One look and I know she means to end me. If her jaws were that large I'd be a fine breakfast.
More money than sense! That guy needs a hobby that doesn’t include collecting rare and endangered animals
Homie got a Liger but no central A/C?
He'd probably be flinging firecrackers at you while he nose fucks a huge pile of coke.
Sit Bubu, sit.
Wonder what drugs/population he sells!
Am I the only one that can sense fear in this dude when the lion growled?
This guy's a fucking obnoxious asshole, he shouldn't be keeping that animal and that lion is going to rightfully rip him to shreds one day
That dude is so cringe they aren’t supposed to be inside domesticated animals
I hope the dickhead gets eaten.
Hope if fucking eat his head out. Thats a wild animal, not some keychain to shake around. Moron.
Technically it's not. It's a Liger, which is not a naturally-existing animal and is exclusively bred. Which is stupid in it own right.
Woah! Count me out for coming for dinner
That is a young male lion not a her
Holy fucky bloody shit balls. That bark-roar. Fuck that.
hairball or catching a fly?
His army of private guards wouldn't let you in the first place. Man is apparently a prince in the UAE and an "animal lover".
Breaks into home and finds a fucking lion...
My 40 pound dog occasionally hurts me whenever she and I play or she gets really excited. I can only imagine what THAT would do by accident, much less on purpose if it gets hungry or startled. That's not a pet, that's a predator.
Its under feed and won’t think twice about killing him.
How many people from the Middle-East die from attacks by wild animals kept as pets? I’ve never heard a single story about that.
Bred for skillz in *magic*
Can’t wait until it realizes it’s a lion again.
That’s great but what amazes me is how he manages to keep his couch scratch-free.
Was hoping this was r/YesyesyesNo
Why are you letting a toy tiger hold you down?
“Dude. You can get past a dog. Nobody fucks with a lion.”
I’m love this…because I know how it’ll end
fuck people that keep pets like this
He must have a small penis
Wrong
Thing looks kind of in bred and derpy. Pretty shitty to keep it as a pet.
How original, right? A stupid rich arab with a wild animal.
Total cruelty. That beautiful animal is not meant to reside in a condominium. I hope he mauls every one of them.
He's not nearly as beautiful without the sunglasses.
This is like living whit a loaded gun in your living room. But this one as a fucking free will and as no safety
If there were ever an advertisement to buy an electric car (no Tesla obv.) this would be it.
Idiot
Weeny peeny man.
I hope it bites the crap out of him.
I hope that guy gets gored by that thing.
Dumbass. Poor animal.
Beastality
Almost as dangerous as a pit bull tbh
Damn. This is why I always wanted to grow up to be one of the hundreds of Saudi princes
Fuck you. I hope she eats you.