Hey, Sometimes a Tiger is Just a Tiger

Well, that might be CO”s policy; but, ’tisn’t MINE!!!

“Is this Tiger, in the Woods???”

(*snerk*)

Signed,
Mischeveous (sp) Minnie

Around 1:20, evidence that Maru is merely following wild feline instinct.

Tiger Boxhab!

I’m slain by the cuteness *thud*

Cutie!! Reminds me of my own (domestic) kitten. But yeesh, that song is uncomfortable.

Oh man, STINKIN’ cute. CO has been topping itself on a daily basis since what, 2006? Truly amazing.

What a cutie! Is s/he an orphan? I notice a distinct lack of tiger-mommy in the video.

It looks this little one is well loved by its humans, though, at least one of whom is willing to put a finger in the rather nasty looking food. That’s dedication!

awww man, now i wants a baby tiger to cuddle and bottle-feed and watch go sweeepiez…

tigger is the cutest thing evarr with those crazy blue eyes. want!
whuh whuh whuh whuh whuhhh!

those eyes are so WIDE, like they’re drinking in everything around them.

WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT SONG?!?????

Um. I said “ad” in my comment above because I’m feeling intermittently cockney todai.

I’ve got to say, the song had me completely unnerved. I’m with Dee… Totally had to mute.

hee hee. that song really takes the video up a notch.

The song is “Teach Me Tiger” sung by April Stevens. I actually have it on my itunes due to a compilation cd.

[Whuh whuh whuh whyyyy?? - Ed.]

They’re going to have to send that one to boxhab before he’s even off the bottle!

couldn’t hear that song due to skiving at work to enjoy this tigger-babe. So adorables! Methinks the instinct is strong in this one. Already trying to pull the entrails out of a zebra, albeit a stuffed one. Loved the bottle shots. Wee babe so cute.

umm…@ ffleur or anyone who knows …

xackly how non-kompooter literat em I????
(I suppose I could take the time to check Wikipedia….but maybe ffleur or someone else will be so kind as to indulge my qwershtyun here, without drumming me entirely out of CO.)

??skiving???

I’m sure it’s some klever adjustment of a word I already
know, bu’ “huh” ??????

ummm. wordgirl – you’ve raised a baby jaguar???
tell us more! and pics, if possible!

I’m totally in the wrong line of work. I want to be a zoo mommy!

I want one!

Woah-woah-woah woah woah!

@ resriechen-
To skive is British slang for the practice of avoiding responsibilities because you want to do something more fun or just don’t want to do what you should be doing. “Skiving”, which may involve actual work, done slowly or unwillingly, should be distinguished from “skiving off”, which involves absence from work.
In the context of schooling, this is known as truancy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skive
*sheepish grin*- I know it because of the Harry Potter books. (Skiving Snackboxes)

Aw, cyooote widdle tiger. If April Stevens is clever, she’s now going to be a zillionaire. I’d promote the heck outta that song, if I were her.

It reminds me, though, of a Soprano’s episode where the Drea deMatteo character was the manager of a band that had produced a hideously bad song where the chorus was “meow.”

..I want to squeeeee you! wuh wuh wuh wahhhhhhh…

Totally cte and wacky find NTMTOM!!

The tiger is adorable! Love him! But that song is just painful.

PS: Did anyone see the STINKIN’ cute marmie kitten on “The Closer” last night?

I, too, had to mute the “song styling,” but NTMTOM makes a good point about then-and-now goofiness!

@ceejoe: I see what you mean. It won’t make you feel any better but I belive “butty” is short for butter.

For those of you in Austraila – or anyone willing to go to Australia – there is a place called Tiger Island near Brisbane that has a good tiger breeding program. Zoos who have not been successful breeding their cats will send them to Tiger Island (insert 70’s adult-themed entertainment music here) and voila – cubs! The cubs are then hand-raised at Tiger Island and will stay as Tiger Ambassadors. For $600 Australian (goes to tiger preservation in the wild), you and up to four friends can meet with the trainers and one tiger. You get an hour to pet the big cat and walk it around the adjacent amusement park, Dreamworld. A photographer captures it all for you. My husband and I went a few years ago. We hung out with an 11 year-old white Bengal named Mohan. PLUS there were two 8 week-old sumatran cubs!!!!!!!!! I still have the giant stupid smile on my face. Also, the tiger smell.

[Xen: Great story, and here's a Tiger Island link to go with it -- Mike]

I love that tiger! What a cutey! The song made me feel a little gross and dirty though. Wha-wha-what the eff?

@Theresa- you mean Joel? OMG! I squeed, played the marmie scenes a few times again, and squeed some more!

@Melinda, yes, Joel!!! Everytime that teency scrap of orange appeared on the screen, I screeched “GEEEEEEEEEEEF HEEEEEEEEEEEEM TOOOOOOOOO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”

Hmmm. I must be a Person of Inferior Taste, since I didn’t hate the song. Can’t say it was a life-changing aesthetic experience, but it’s not the worst thing I have ever heard (that would be “MacArthur Park”). Handsome little tigerino. Tiger Moosh food looks fairly horrible, but not that different from what I fed my human kids back in their infancy.

[♫ Someone left the Tiger Moosh in the raaaaaiiiinnnnn... ♫ -- Mike]

*twitches, slaps hand over mouth to stop the SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE from escaping* OMGOMGOMG!!! I want… And I can’t make any noise because my boss is in a meeting in the cube next to mine… *gives up* SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *ded*

1:46

@oh Pushy McShove, she is stinkin,. stinkin; cute– I would love to see and up to date pic of her.

@ Ceejo: Sadly, that was before the days of digital so no photos. I’d made friends with several people who worked at the local zoo and I had a job that gave me lots of leeway on time off. When a mother rejects her baby in the wild, the baby wills itself to die. In a zoo setting, the rule of thumb is that if staff doesn’t find the rejected baby within 24 hours, there’s no way to save it. That’s where I came in. Since these babies were considered a loss already, they were sent home with me, along with heat lamps, formula, whatever was needed. My biggest successes were the jaguar and a llama. (OK, I admit it. I have no taste. I named the baby llama Dolly (as in Dalai. Yes, I’m ashamed of myself.) I had a secret for nurturing the rejected babies that worked about 75 percent of the time. Trust me. You don’t want to know what my secret method was. (But if you think you really do, you can reach me at flwordgirl@yahoo.com ’cause I’m sure not going to write it on a public forum.)

Aww, now that’s a real Tiger, not a Cheetah.. muhahaha

I confess to singing really stupid things to my dog – now I’m going to have to go home and confuse her by going “WUUOOAH WUUOOAH WUUOOAH WUHH WUHH!” I think she’ll dig it – she’s a groovy chick.

@1:14…nomming my own leg……
hahahahahahahaaa

Love the wee tiger, but I feel like a need to take a shower after that song!!

That tiger doesn’t like to blink, at all. Funny how both the eyes AND paws are slightly oversized… I like even younger tiger cubs or grown-ups better. This is just an intermediary stage without much appeal. Then again, WUUU-Huuu-HUUUU! The song made that video, no question.

It’s going to be stuck in my head all day at work. I can already see it happening: “Hey, can you fix this?” “Yeah, maybe, (Touch me tiger) let me (woohoohoo) take a (woohoohoo) look at it.”

ummmm. P McS:

were you **deliberately** invoking a wonderful Stevie Wonder song from —-/Key of Life, there at the beg. of your comment # 73 ???? or was it just some Super Song Serendipity???

I haven’t seen the video yet (boo for website blockers!) but I know exactly what song everyone is talking about. There was some commercial on TV in the last year or so that used it. I have no idea what it was advertising, though.

I like MacArthur Park too – it came out just as we were covering simile and metaphor in high school English. It made perfect sense to me.

I wanted to leave Richard Harris out in the rain. For a long time.

Dozer (88)– you had me cracking up… Now I’m chortling thinking what kind of work you do that will have this soundtrack tomorrow… Plumber? Tech support? Cable Guy/Gal? Rollercoaster Repairperson? Wuh wuh wuh wuh wooooouuu, indeed!

VZ, I agree – you know Dave Barry ranked it the worst song ever? And thank you, Katrina, about Steve Miller! I mean, he speaks of the pompatus of love!

My worst song ever is older than both of those – do you know Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro? (Crap, now it will be stuck in my head all night. Maybe better watch the video again…)

[Dave Barry is THE MAN. He was a master humor blogger back when blogs were called The Dayton Daily News, and they came on cheap smudgy paper. To your literal doorstep. - Ed.]

I pretty much agree with “skippymom”>

isn’t she lovely? her name is haditha, and she lives at the woodland park zoo in seattle. the video shows her at around six months. she was hand raised because her mother had rejected her. she is now fully integrated in the tiger clan, and she is just as beautiful as when she was a bebeh tiger. i’m surprised there weren’t hundreds of zoo visitors passed out around her viewing window back then; she was, and is, the epitome of Qte!

Pushy – grrrrrreat username! And thanks for telling us the backstory here. I was getting a little anxious watching that vid. It looked a little as if someone was raising that beautiful baby in their home, which seemed a bit odd and if it were the case, probably not a good situation for the tiger. I’m glad to hear she’s being looked after by knowledgeable, competent caretakers who not only love her but also know how to give her what’s best for her. What a sweet little future ferocious man-eater she is! Pretty soon the bowls of ground up meat mush aren’t going to be doing it for her and we’ll see her ripping apart her prey from limb to limb, like the pwecious widdle lambikins she is, bless her heart, LOL.

What a redonkulous song. Wha-wha-wha-vhh-whaaa…

But I did appreciate the tigey winks at :24ish, :27, and espesh 1:29

So what is a “fried slice?” And what is “brown sauce?” I got most of my Britishisms from reading “Hellblazer” comics, but those two escape me. I knew about “skiving” and “butties” and *ahem* “vinegar strokes” and even (my favorite) “going pear-shaped.” All from “Hellblazer.” That comic also introduced me to The Pogues.

@ Noelegy: ‘fried slice’ is bread fried in the pan with or after bacon; if done properly it’s delicious, but a cholesterol nightmare; ‘brown sauce’ is a generic term for a mysterious compound involving fruits, spices and vinegar all boiled down into a smooth mush (ugh!), originally called ‘HP sauce’, and beloved of ‘transport caffs’, where it can often be found in a squeezy plastic container in the shape of a tomato, but BROWN (no, it doesn’t make any sense to me either).

Xen, way back at comment 62, the trip to Tiger Island sounds very nice and I like the ratio- much better than one trainer and four tigers. Really.

Do you think that Haditha has a Bengali accent? I like to.

Von Z- Sorry to say, but I’m pretty sure Richard Harris doesn’t get water spots or shrink, he might even be “Sanforized” at this point, so, being in the rain doesn’t really bother him.

Felicityanne-Can we go to the zoo together? I called a walrus over once.

I am pear shaped.

Katrina, my principal reason for leaving Mr. Harris out in the rain (and I’m thinking of a good, high-powered Oklahoma Toad-Strangler thunderstorm) was that I wouldn’t be able to hear him singing that stupid song.

I cannot agree with Mr. Barry concerning the worst song ever. My candidate is “Having My Baby” by Paul Anka. Worst.Song.EVER. in the English language.

Now for the tiger comment – she’s a cutie now, but wait till she grows into her paws. She will be beautiful but I don’t think she will be nearly as cuddly. If only we could freeze them at this size…a lap tiger would be awesome.

[Have you ever seen full-grown tigers playing and romping? Believe me, they stay cute, they just get deadly too. - Ed.]

Dear Santa:
I would like a baby tiger for Christmas.
Love,
SparklePaw

first: Richard Harris has been dead for seven years.

next: Haditha is now three years old and stunningly beautiful. she grew into her paws. her photo is on the woodland park zoo gift card. she may be a mamma tiger one of these years.

@ whiskers: BTW, and apropos of nothing, cheetahs purr. Saw that on on Animal Planet, and if they say so, it must be true, right?

Apropos of Harris: he made a pretty good Dumbledore… Never got the gist of the sweet green icing melting in the rain… Used to wonder WTH with Macarthur Park altogether.

That said, *grabby hands* I think I hear my mother calling. *Scoops up bebeh tiger and runs off to hide in the jungle*
: )

Cute tiger … nauseating song (had to turn the volume down!)
It certainly wouldn’t encourage me to buy anything… lol

@emily … cute in theory, not so cute in reality when they grow up. Besides, they are meant to be free … it would be wrong to allow the general public to keep animals they don’t know how to care for and would have no way to provide for (which is why there are laws banning such a thing). I say, let’s just appreicate them for the magnificent creatures they are and let them have their own lives.

boxhab? I don’t know what that is.