Stupid, dangerous and cruel to the animals. Tigers simply cannot adapt to close confinement; as a roaming animal they cover a huge area in their lifetimes. To keep one in the confines of an apartment is simply asking for trouble. You're fighting against a powerful animals inner programming.

As for alligators, we have enough idiots in Florida who just don't get it. It is against the law to feed those things, not because we cruelly want them to starve, but because they aren't intelligent enough to distinguish between a source of food and a food source. Bringing food to a gator is letting its limited intelligence associate you with food. Alligators do not understand the difference between "brings food" and "is food." Feeding them educates them out of their natural fear of humans. And let's not forget they can run 40 miles an hour from a standing start. You just don't play with those things.

**And let's not forget they can run 40 miles an hour from a standing start. You just don't play with those things.**

No, but they do make stunning shoes.

The Goddess writes: ***No, but they do make stunning shoes.***

I've never owned a pair, but I imagine they're quite durable, alligator hide being what it is.

I knew an old lady who had a gah-zillion cats when I lived on the Lower East Side. She gave them names like Wolfgang Amadeus Meowzart. She said that in college she majored in Kvetch-ism, with a minor in Nudge-ism. (Please forgive any misspellings. My computer can't do spellcheck in Yiddish yet.)

I don't know why I shared that. Consider it a little bursted blog-clot in my brain.

Sigfried &....Leroy?