A Day in the Life of One of Mike the Tiger's Caretakers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2024
- Care for LSU's live tiger mascot, Mike VI, is provided by the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. His veterinarian is a professor at the LSU SVM, and he is assigned two veterinary student caretakers who serve in that role for two years. Find out what life is like when you're one of handful of people responsible for the care of a 440-pound apex predator.
As an Ole Miss fan this is really cool how they take care of him like Tusk at the University of Arkansas just too bad they can't get a picture taken together
The Eye of the Tiger on the 50-yard-line should be repainted to resemble Mike VI's scared eye in honor of him. No way of pitching that idea to the people who can make that happen, is there?
Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine purchases dogs from a local animal shelter for use in deadly training exercises. A former executive director of Community Animal Alliance, a Baton Rouge animal shelter, has come forward with evidence that the shelter has provided LSU with both live and dead animals for many years. At least 70 live dogs were supplied for this purpose in 2018 alone.
Most people choose to pursue a career in veterinary medicine because they care about the treatment of animals. Veterinary schools have an obligation to cultivate that compassion, not extinguish it. By buying dogs from an animal shelter and killing them for an anatomy course, LSU is sending the shameful message that dogs in shelters are nothing more than disposable teaching tools.
LSU must stop treating community animal shelters like a laboratory supply closet and switch to using ethical training methods in which students learn veterinary practices with simulators or by working in conjunction with clinics that provide necessary care and consider the best interests of the animals.
let. him. go
look he lives better then a tiger in a zoo you dont know what his habitat looks like dont jump to conclusions PETA
Jim bo I know this comment is 3 years old, but I hope during all that time you decided to look more into Mike’s care and habitat, and did more research about what would happen if you just “let him go” like you said. In short, he’d die quickly, as would any tiger raised in captivity suddenly released into the wild. This was Mike 6, who tragically died of cancer, only after being the only tiger in history to receive chemotherapy. His habitat (and currently Mike 7’s) is a 15 thousand square foot, multi-million dollar certified sanctuary. He has veterinarians working around the clock to take care of him. He has a “comfort rock” to lie on which is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. He is the best taken care of tiger in captivity on this planet. 3 years is a long time to become less ignorant. Hope you have.