“Tiger free to a good home. Good with children.”

December 18, 2009 9:37 AM

Tiger at Oyster Creek? It's possible there's a tiger skulking around Brazoria County. Of course, it might be a cougar...although they're pretty scarce around here. You'd probably have a better chance of seeing a tiger in Texas than a cougar. Heck, these days there are more tigers in the state of Texas than there are in India.
posted by Neofelis (17 comments total)

Texas is just trying to steal Sussex's thunder.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 9:55 AM on December 18, 2009

How sad is it that I thought, "Oh, so that's where he's hanging out until the paparazzi go away!"?
posted by Madamina at 9:56 AM on December 18, 2009

Why not? There have been alligators in Dallas/Fort Worth for several years now.
posted by cmoj at 10:10 AM on December 18, 2009

"Rexses said the most recent sighting, bringing total reports to a handful, came just this morning."

what
posted by tristeza at 10:11 AM on December 18, 2009

This is a job for Bungalow Bill and his mom.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 10:23 AM on December 18, 2009

Meanwhile, over in Fort Worth, they've got a thing for panthers.
posted by emjaybee at 10:31 AM on December 18, 2009

“Tiger free to a good home. Good with children.”

Just keep him away from the nanny.
posted by gman at 10:48 AM on December 18, 2009

Hm. Neither about Tiger Woods, nor middle-aged women seeking younger men.
posted by jabberjaw at 10:51 AM on December 18, 2009

Heck, these days there are more tigers in the state of Texas than there are in India.

This is one of the saddest things I've heard in weeks.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 11:06 AM on December 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

A friend of mine, who lives just outside Houston, had all of their chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, and cats eaten by a bobcat. There is plenty of food out there, for a predator cat, and farms seem to be one of the best places to find it.
posted by Midnight Skulker at 11:18 AM on December 18, 2009

no cougar jokes? Come on metafilter, you're slacking.
posted by empath at 11:29 AM on December 18, 2009

. Stones shakes his head. In his 38 years at the zoo, he has seen this too many times. “They have no idea what they are getting into. Those cubs are so cute, and they just bought them because they thought it was cool. But then one day, you’ve got some full-grown tigers on your hands.”


Some people are idiots.
posted by lalochezia at 12:14 PM on December 18, 2009

A friend and I drove cross country in 2001, and saw a bunch of billboards that read "SEE THE TIGER", I think in northern Louisiana. Having done the Wall Drug/Mystery Spot/South of the Border/various other roadside attractions, we assumed it was the county's largest life-like concrete statue of a tiger or some other dubious distinction. After 100 or so miles of seeing the signs, we finally arrived at the stop. We didn't see anything, until we drove around back, and there was a mangy old bengal tiger in a cage. It was pretty depressing to see an animal like that living in a gas station parking lot, so hopefully that tiger ate his captor, escaped and is roaming east Texas feasting on household pets.
posted by electroboy at 1:00 PM on December 18, 2009

Those tigers better not eat the whooping cranes I'm planning to see next week in Brazoria!
posted by vespabelle at 2:16 PM on December 18, 2009

empath : no cougar jokes? Come on metafilter, you're slacking.

Man to large cat: Hey, You're a cougar right? I have a car named after you!

Cougar: You have a car named Steve?

[rimshot]
posted by quin at 3:23 PM on December 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Man to cougar: Hey, I've got a car named after you!

Cougar: You have a car named Vicki?
posted by cmoj at 5:07 PM on December 18, 2009

I cannot imagine why anyone would want a wild cat as a pet. We adopted kittens this summer that are going to be huge when they grow up. They weigh almost 11 pounds right now and they're not yet 9 months old. They break glass, they break plumbing, they can climb the windows and OMG, the poop. THE POOP!
posted by zinfandel at 5:08 PM on December 18, 2009