Tiger... on a horse?

[getupasb]

Once again, not the greatest post, but I was curious what people thought about this.

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A lot of people left comments on the video like "Grotesque and depressing. These animals are beautiful in the wild. Why the fuck does anyone need to see them doing tricks before they are impressed?" while others thought it was impressive.

So what do YOU think?

Comments

[tatjna]

LOL at the green rider tag.

I dunno, neither horse nor tiger seem overly concerned about it so I'm not too worried, but not really impressed either. If the tiger was doing a headstand, now that'd be something.

[celticravenwolf]

So trusting for the horse and tempting for the tiger!

I've seen lots of pictures of lions and stuff on the backs of horses, and the horses always seem to look pretty terrified.

This little guy, however, seems more annoyed by the bubbles than the tiger. I'm thinking pretty successful training to get both of them that chill about beingin such an unnatural situation.

[__undertherose_]

i say good_training but definitely a bit uh...why? it is impressive that the horse and tiger don't seem to mind, but i do wish the horse was a bit bigger as tigers are often upwards of 200 pounds.

[summer_jackel]

Hm, it looks like a draft breed to me, and it appears to be wearing some variant on a vaulting saddle. 200 pounds or so doesn't seem like it would be that hard on the horse.

[__undertherose_]

xD you're right. i was thinking of another vid like this that i've seen where they were using a much smaller horse

[summer_jackel]

It is possible that this is the reasonably classy (with budget enough to care for a tiger adequately) version of a show that's done with much poorer animal care/training elsewhere. I've seen some very sad pictures of shows like this, where the tack didn't look as good, the horse was smaller and didn't look at all as relaxed.

[bettydavis]

Predator on top of a prey animal. Not my cup of tea.

[summer_jackel]

We've been selecting them for most of recorded history to accept having a predator riding around on top of them, though. I don't think a tiger is much scarier to a properly desensitized horse than a human, and "predator on top of a prey animal" describes riding pretty well to me.

I dislike this for other reasons, but I just can't bring myself to fault the training.

[bettydavis]

Oops. Good point.

[fidgetknickers]

You don't ride then?

[pythia]

I don't particularly like seeing animals performing like this, but neither tiger nor horse seem particularly worried or stressed out, so...whatever.