Comments on: Keeping up with the Camilleris

By: Keith Grech

Keith Grech — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:38:09 +0000

What happanded to this cub since the day this incident was reported?

By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:07:30 +0000

I love this: “(but then dogs don’t run around the living-room in Malta, either). “. When is someone going to start making fun of Maltese wives’ obsessiveness?

Yes – clear act of lunacy: the tiger and the obsessiveness, for that matter!

By: John Azzopardi

John Azzopardi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:06:28 +0000

The cliche is that most people attribute anthropomorphic qualities to animals and many argue that giving them artificial housing (e.g. cages, zoos, parks, and other confinement) provides them with safety and comfort as opposed to having to face ‘dangers’ in the wild. This is the same like saying that the arrival of man on the planet, many millions of years after wild animals, was a boon to the animals as finally someone would give them shelter and protect them from terrible dangers. It is a totally crazy argument. Wild animals have done well without the help of man for millions of years.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:23:51 +0000

In reply to K.Smith. K Smith: The old B&W Tarzan films featured exotic animals like swans. Maybe that's where you learned your geography?

By: Karl Flores

Karl Flores — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:32:51 +0000

No magic bullet for the above, so far. Jungle Jim, maybe?

By: Steve Forster

Steve Forster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:33:51 +0000

The authorities have been very quiet on what is happening with “tigger” and what/why/how etc….

By: K.Smith

K.Smith — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:21:43 +0000

In reply to K.Smith. I never said it came from Africa! Read .....

By: Lisha

Lisha — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:16:58 +0000

In reply to Herbs. Well, herbs if you read the article properly...the Camilleris do not have the tiger. They only have two Siberian huskys. Why don't you try and find a Maltese born and bred tiger? Good luck with that. But before you start commenting on all this, why don't you get your facts straight first?

By: Karl Flores

Karl Flores — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:20:22 +0000

In reply to Chris.

What you say is true, Chris. That the tiger could choose to go back to its cage. It is the only route it knows of. And again, as Daphne said in her bold letters (I would omit the word roughly): it’s only because the cage is the only safe living quarters it knows of, where it feels protected from being attacked. It is where it finds its food and water and maybe, the loving tone (very important) its keeper uses with it. About 48/50 years ago when we had sparrows and robins flying all over the island we used to capture them (it was legal then) and keep them in tiny cages – gabbjetti. I never had a robin returning to its cage, but the same robin (that had escaped) stayed in the garden where it was caught. I am also sure that had the same robin known how to get into its cage it would have done so. That is the only safe environment it knew of.

[Daphne – A cage isn’t a safe environment to a robin, but rather the opposite.]

By: K.Smith

K.Smith — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:29:12 +0000

Have you not realised that this is just to give Mickey Mouse company? All this fuss about a tiger! I keep wondering what’s next for our pajjiz tal-Mickey Mouse. Maybe this is the start of a new way to promote Malta as a lost exotic animal destination something like Jurassic park? It’s already a “gungla”; we have many African people coming too, so the stage is set! Bring it on Tarzan Boy!

[Daphne – There are no tigers in Africa. It’s called a Bengal tiger because it’s native to….that part of India.]