A Brave Volunteer Demonstrates What Happens When He Turns His Back on Big Cats

In an effort to discourage ownership of wild animals, a brave volunteer at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa safely demonstrated the danger of turning one’s back on a big cat. His daring experiment included a lion, a tiger, and leopard, all of whom snuck up behind him quietly in attack mode, as dictated by instinct.

Tigers, Lions, Leopards and all other species of big cats are WILD animals, they will always have their wild instincts and as this video illustrates they will never make good “pets”!!…Since 1990, U.S. incidents involving captive big cats—including tigers, lions, cougars, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and lion/tiger hybrids—have resulted in the deaths of 21 humans, 247 maulings, 259 escapes, 143 big cats deaths and 132 confiscations.

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.