Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Playing with Tigers

We are safely home and recovering from jet lag.  Hopefully one more good night's sleep and it will be history.

We've had lots of people ask us for more pictures of our experience at the tiger reserve.  I think we are all fascinated by big cats and many of us long to touch them.  I feel really fortunate to have had that chance.  So here is a video of me and a couple of the 2 month old cubs.  You can see there are actually 5 of them and 7 people (Derrick and me, a couple from Germany and a mother, father and daughter plus Nami, the Japanese cub-keeper.)  We played with the cubs for fully 45 minutes, fed them then said our goodbyes.  It was awesome!!


In this second video, we (meaning the guests) were enclosed in a "cage" while the tigers were allowed to play in their pond with the Thai handlers.  You'll see that one of the handlers has a long bamboo pole with several plastic bags attached that make a nice noise.  Watch as the kitties play :-)

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