I went to the waterfront festival yesterday. I paid five dollars to get in and thought that wasn’t such a bad price. Well, I was walking through and saw this exotic animal tent. I walked into the tent and saw people taking pictures with a HUGE yellow snake for five dollars. I thought wow that is something I would never do so I got in line. I was getting my picture taken and looked over and saw a baby white bengal sleeping and said to the guy “I would rather get a picture with that cute little baby” he said “come back in ten minutes.” My heart started pounding I was so excited. By the time ten minutes was up they had a line out the door of people waiting to pay ten dollars to take a picture with a baby tiger. That was a once in a lifetime chance and worth the five extra dollars I gave the lady. All the money goes towards saving endangered animals so it’s worth a few extra bucks to me! GO GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN WITH A BABY TIGER.
If you have kids this is an amazing experience for them. The children that were waiting in line all had the most amazing looks on their faces anticipating this experience.
I just went down and talked with the person in charge of the baby tiger exhibit (6/2/08 3:44pm). The woman said the tiger just got some shots and most likely will only be available on Friday and Saturdays for pictures. She said the best time to get a picture will be around 11:15am on those days. After the 11:15am photo’s the baby tiger will get a bottle and then the baby usually sleeps for a couple hours. Have fun!
j Said:
on June 4, 2008 at 12:34 am
I’m sorry, but I think that’s a very bad idea. There have been several incidents of people getting mauled at these things, and this is not a good life for the animals. They are hauled around in cages in the heat and cold all year.
As for the money going to save endangered animals, well I hope that’s true, but it’s probably going to keep endangered animals in cages, like the way Ringling’s circus talks up their elephant breeding program but they never tell you they haven’t put a single elephant back into the wild. They’re just breeding circus elephants to keep themselves in business.