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“Out of a workforce of five at any given moment, one’ll be having premenstrual tension, one’s panicking cause she’s not, someone’s having a hot flush, and someone’s having a nervous breakdown cause her HRT patch has fallen in the minestrone!”🍳🥓🍽

masha-russia

(first tiger jumps in) *laughing* Vanya, what is this? Van’ … Van’, get out of the boot, Van’. (second tiger approaches) Mishka … let’s go. Mish, let’s go. Mishka! Mish, let’s go. Come on, sit. Sit. (third tiger comes in) Bonya, you too are here! Ok let’s go guys. Let’s go! *starts singing* x

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Just Russian Things

fozmeadows

Big cat stuff can often be sketchy even if the content looks cute, so I clicked on the source for the video and this guy apparently runs a sanctuary for rescue tigers and other big cats near Moscow. His YouTube bio is in Russian, but here’s what it says according to Google Translate:

So you can feel happy knowing that these big dumb cats are loved and being looked after.

eighthdoctor

Yeah, you’re gonna need to do a little more research than that.

Mikhail Zaretsky is (or was, I can’t find a more recent english language source) the tiger trainer for the Nikulin Circus (source). He currently posts videos on youtube about taking his tigers to boarding schools for kids to pet and climb on (source), and how his tigers and lions live together happily (source). Over on instagram, he likes to post videos of himself handling leashed tigers (source) and sometimes riding them (source). (He also tags all of his instagram posts with #bengaltiger, but that’s confusing rather than problematic.)

I’ve been over this before: There is no way to safely, healthily keep an adult tiger full contact in a human residence. You either declaw, defang, or drug the tiger (which he’s been accused of doing), or the human is going to end up dead.

And if he is planning a reserve, he should know better than to transport tigers in an SUV. Or to keep them on leash. Or to let them interact with schoolkids. Or to let them paw at his face. Or to cohabilitate different species. Or to overfeed his tigers–when I first saw this video, I thought they were from the fur trade, that’s how fat they are.

So yeah, keeping big cats in close contact with humans is still a really bad idea.

Edit: This site (source) repeats that he’s running a sanctuary, but I can’t tell if they have a second source outside of his social media, and they bring up that literally no one has vetted this. Big cat “sanctuaries” are notoriously sketchy and prone to existing just because the owner wants to keep big cat pets. Which seems to be what’s happening here.

sorano-stryfe

Reblogging this version because I knew something seemed sketchy about this video

sorano-stryfe

hey I still have mutuals reblogging this video thinking it’s totally kosher and cool, so I’m bringing this back as a reminder that it’s really, really not

fbwzoo

Saw this video before, here’s a better version with appropriate commentary on how this video is NOT cute, safe, or okay.

tiralatele

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Coexist

conallcd117

this what i picture world peace looks like

garbage-senpai

This is where I want to be

weezley

Tiny woman in pink coat is literally me in 50 years

fousheezy

this is such a pure video I want to watch it every time I give up on humanity

thaebae

i love

wheredidcamillego

witchjock-deactivated20221208

but literally what is the babadook and why it gay

What a homophobic question

ruinedchildhood

minato2525

standpoor

this literally changed my mood 180°

lunamoonlc123-deactivated201910

IT’S FACE WHEN IT POPS

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

<3_<3

LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

wan-shailu

every time I reblog this my sister sends me a message to the effect of “thank u for reposting that cat video on your tumblr i have seen it so many times but it delights me every time because their paws are so gentle and graceful”