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Could you domesticate a tiger?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Think it'd be savage having one around the house (no pun intended).
    Good thing you didn't intend a pun..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    I prefer the toyger. All the tiger in the shape of a cat. Sorted;)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Could you domesticate a tiger ?

    Well...I suppose you could try......but it would be hard to purrfect :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭OMARS_COMING_


    My mate has one,seriously.

    He got it as a cub from the circus and raised it up,now it lives in his farm and sleeps in a stable at night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    I'm pretty sure that you could. I'd make sure he was always well fed though:eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭RHarrow


    I don't think it'd be possible to fully domesticate a tiger as we know them right now, but I've no doubt that with selective breeding, a few generations of tigers down the line could be domesticated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Zab




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    My mate has one,seriously.

    He got it as a cub from the circus and raised it up,now it lives in his farm and sleeps in a stable at night.
    It ate him alive though didn't it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Zab wrote: »

    And eventually they whined up killing him like all the other 'domesticated' animals. He's got balls though. I'll give him that!

    Very cool to be able to do that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,506 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    You can for a little bit, One used to live in London, Christian the friendly lion.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    Doesn't mike Tyson have a domesticated tiger


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Buck Alec owned a lion. (goggle him folks)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I don't think you could fully domesticate one, especially in adulthood, but it would be so fukcing cool if you could!! I'd love one, or any of the large cats - they are all beautiful creatures.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    I think you would find it easier to domesticate a pack animal to be honest. One that doesnt mind the idea of a master servant scenario! Tigers dont really like anyone dominating them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    How many thousands of years have dogs been domesticated for? ....... and some still let the wild side out. Go ahead OP domestic a tiger. I don't foresee any problems at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭BehindTheScenes


    It would end up like this, and rightfully so........as the lynx ad says "you can't contain the beast within"*







    *They didn't really say that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    It would end up like this, and rightfully so........as the lynx ad says "you can't contain the beast within"*







    *They didn't really say that.

    Seriously that lion was just playing an attack would have been near instantly fatal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I think you would find it easier to domesticate a pack animal to be honest. One that doesnt mind the idea of a master servant scenario! Tigers dont really like anyone dominating them!

    Hmm I'm just going to make you aware that I'm not looking to wrestle the tiger you know I'm just er looking to get a tiger so I can stroke it a bit, maybe take it for a walk, show it off to my mates, tease it with a ball of yarn (not sure where you'd get yarn, Centra?) and take it to the pub with me you know the usual stuff :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Hmm I'm just going to make you aware that I'm not looking to wrestle the tiger you know I'm just er looking to get a tiger so I can stroke it a bit, maybe take it for a walk, show it off to my mates, tease it with a ball of yarn (not sure where you'd get yarn, Centra?) and take it to the pub with me you know the usual stuff :cool:

    To a tiger thats dominating them. If you had a girlfriend who took you for a walk and showed you off to her mates and made you play with balls would you like that :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Hmm I'm just going to make you aware that I'm not looking to wrestle the tiger you know I'm just er looking to get a tiger so I can stroke it a bit, maybe take it for a walk, show it off to my mates, tease it with a ball of yarn (not sure where you'd get yarn, Centra?) and take it to the pub with me you know the usual stuff :cool:

    What? Didn't you want to bring out the leathers and thigh high stiletto boots and show his who the daddy is?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    To a tiger thats dominating them. If you had a girlfriend who took you for a walk and showed you off to her mates and made you play with balls would you like that :pac:
    What? Didn't you want to bring out the leathers and thigh high stiletto boots and show his who the daddy is?

    So is this the decision I have to make if I get a tiger? Either get a girlfriend who's subversive or give up and start wearing leather and stiletto boots and start teasing tigers? It's a tough one alright. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Hmm I'm just going to make you aware that I'm not looking to wrestle the tiger you know I'm just er looking to get a tiger so I can stroke it a bit, maybe take it for a walk, show it off to my mates, tease it with a ball of yarn (not sure where you'd get yarn, Centra?) and take it to the pub with me you know the usual stuff :cool:
    Maybe throw in a bit of catnip?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    So is this the decision I have to make if I get a tiger? Either get a girlfriend who's subversive or give up and start wearing leather and stiletto boots and start teasing tigers? It's a tough one alright. :cool:

    I had an ex into that stuff and to be honest domesticating a tiger is the better option!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    the Celtic ones are the easiest.

    just take , six bankers, two dumb politicians ,twenty developers, add lots of dough, mix together vigorously....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭nimrod86


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    the Celtic ones are the easiest.

    just take , six bankers, two dumb politicians ,twenty developers, add lots of dough, mix together vigorously....

    damn thing's are smart buggers though! Just when you think things are great, they pack up, and feck off after clearing you out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    RAWR!

    ...

    ..

    :(

    Purr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    I thought by the very nature lions will always attempt to take over a "pack" by fighting with the head of it?

    The "pack" being the owner and his lion, and the head of the "pack" being the person who trains and controls the lion.

    If this is the case screw that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    I thought by the very nature lions will always attempt to take over a "pack" by fighting with the head of it?

    The "pack" being the owner and his lion, and the head of the "pack" being the person who trains and controls the lion.

    If this is the case screw that!

    So will dogs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    So will dogs!

    True, but I rather my chances against my Jack Russell in comparison to a lion!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont




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