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  • Tigers often go for a swim in the wild, I wonder how momma tigers get there cubs in the water lol. The tail pulling seemed to be limited and most of the trainers seemed to be using other methods as well.

  • They are not SEA CREATURES! Come. ON! Sheesh, do not pull a tiger by it's TAIL!

  • Why is it animal cruelty? They looked okay, but it WAS mean to force them to swim...

  • you people are abusers!!!!!! you like to abuse animals

  • i would rather swim with the tigers then meet them on a flat plain

  • Althought I would normally agree with all of you about the trainers & how they shouldn't ever force their animals to do things they don't want to do. Consider for a moment if you are trying to teach a child to swim. They are normally scared of the deep water but once you get them in there they love it! Tigers are known for swimming & as such these trainers were just trying to open an avenue of physical stimulation for these tigers. I think they were a little forceful but they had good intentions

  • If animals could think like we do , we'd be fucked in short time...

    considering what we do to them...

  • poor tigers

  • Pity.... no blood!

  • Hope one day one of those tigers Go Tiger on them...

  • Haha that was funny as hell !!!

  • Those tigers probably wanted to slap the shit out of those trainers...

  • Screw swim with the dolphins. XD (by the way, stop pulling there tails, dumb ass trainers.)

  • Poor bastards

  • I bet there only doing that because they know if they don't they getting hurt...

  • this is disturbing to watch, i feel so uneasy when they pulled them by its tail

  • Stupid pol god damn get yo animals strait thts not a dolphin

  • It's natural for an animal to know how to swim. Even domestic cats, despite not liking the water, do know how to swim. Tigers love the water but they should be able to swim when they want to, not when the trainers want to show them off. Also, dragging them by the tail is not alright.

  • Those tigers are just waiting for the right moment to strike back you know.

  • I hate (most) so called "professional" zoologists and marine biologists because they always do things that aren't good for animasl. Usually to entertain guests.

    We live in a sad sad world :(

  • does that look like a dolphin to you? get yo animals straight.

  • Releasing tigers back into the wild is not such a simple matter. If they were brought up in captivity, it would be extremely unlikely for them to survive if there is no special training given them for them to regain their wild survival instincts. So no, it's not cruel or inhumane for these people to keep them in captivity.

  • Seriously, if anyone attempted to hurt one of those tigers, it would tear them to shreds. The tiger swam to the people on the pool with it not away from them or to the side to get out. Duh?

  • The tigers didnt look happy. They looked very tortured to be in the water. i dont think YANKING THERE TAILS AND PUSHING THEM help. Stupid people. release them back to their NATURAL habitat., instead of a cage.

  • fucking ads

  • these tigers are pretty but they should not be shown for show and tell!!!! release them back to there natural habitat :(

  • @1tuscona im russian and i know you just some hippie filled with bullshit so... EAT SHIT AND DIE! that is all

  • i hope shamu the killer whale jumps on those fucks next time they try and swim with him

  • What do these shows to the public do for the animals?? Nothing but further add to the problem that people think these animals are cute, sweet pets when in reality they should be left in their habitats and conservation efforts should be concentrated in their natural habitat. These trainers may not be forcing these big cats into the water or pulling them by the tail as some have defended, but they are not acting in the best interest of the tigers, they're being selfish humans instead.

  • No one yanked the tigers tail. It is simply to pivot the animal. Tigers LOVE to swim. In fact it is a USDA reguirement that a tiger shall have acess to a pool in order to be in captivity. Unlike most cats, to deprive a tiger of his natural inclination to the water is inhumane.

    I would LOVE to visit this place!! Great job AP and T.I.G.E.R!!!

  • i want to swim with the cats too

  • Ze worden gwn het water ingedouwd! dierenbeulen! :(

  • I just hate it when a wonderful video like this is put out to show the bond and trust these cats have for their humans and idiots post negative remarks. There was NO abuse here. The "pushing" the tiger in the water was not pushing.  The handler was obviously trying to keep the two animals separate. THAT IS ALL. Tigers LOVE water. They are NOT house cats. And speaking of that, have you ever tried to put a cat in water? There is NO way you could force tigers to do something they don't want.

  • thats awesome;)

  • if they bit ure faces off i woldnt be a big suprise -,-

  • poor tigers :(

  • Odd, those look like kids, and very young tigers. They also don't look happy. I sense a disaster if they try this with adult cats.

  • Zoos are retarted. Plain and simple. Want to learn about animals? Google.

  • @McBigMac530 This has got to be the most ignorant reply to ANY Youtube video I've ever seen.

  • @nadjahlover Well... it was pretty ignorant. Though I have seen worse.

  • the music doesn't help. it still looks dangerous.

  • Yeah..... I would never drag a FUCKING tiger into water by it's FUCKING tail.

  • Fuck dolphins, who do I pay to let me swim with tigers?

  • The tiger was already swimming before she grabbed the tail and really why would a trainer pull a tiger's tail? The tiger would have already bit her.

  • poor tigers the people are forcing them to swim

  • muy hermoso

    Very beautifull

  • o.O she pulled it in by its tail....poor thing. :\

  • 0:07 Is this she seriusly draging the tiger into the water by grabbing his tail!?

  • @1TomAhs1 The tiger was already swimming before she grabbed the tail and really why would a trainer pull a tiger's tail? The tiger would have already bit her.

  • I wouldn't wanna swim with these animals, 1 second, SNAP! the Tiger would be munching you like a piece of cookie.

  • Every single animal video on YouTube, theirs always a fucking animal freak that tries to act like they're an animal whisperer. The tigers are being taught to swim. When I was little I took swimming lessons. I was hesitant, but I learned. They have to learn to swim for survival.

  • Tigers are natural swimmers. They're not being abused. They're being encouraged to swim for a few mins so that people can see them in action. They're not being thrown alone into open water. They're being held up by their trainers, and merely swimming from one trainer to the other. OH NOES!!!!! SAVE THE POOR HELPLESS TIGERS!!!! Gimme a fucking break.

  • Poor tigers! Sick people!

  • Beeing forced to go in the water is cruel.If I was there id throw my picnic at the trainers.

  • But I do see your guys point they shouldnt be pulling them into the water like that

  • Okay its not bad! The tigers are just a bit scared but the trainers are just trying to help them swim! Plus that one tiger wouldnt be giving kisses to the one trainer if it was being abused if they really wanted to get out they would just ! try to get out on the sides of the pool

  • I'm ashamed of being human when I see them doing these to the poor animals.

  • When those tiger's are full grown, they WILL never forget those zoo keeper's faces....."ahhhh, yes, Remember me now?

  • Look you dudes. Its a feline and if they dont like it they with bite the trainers just once and training will be over. But the tigers dont care. Its like your little brother hates to go shower and your mother is bitch because she said he has to go :D :D :D THINK WHAT YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT.!!!

  • @Afrowoman12 yeah breeding wild animals in captivity and making them do things they don't wan can not be compared to human family life. think of what you're writing about

  • @MagicMalky but they borned incaptivity and you can not put them back to nature because they dont know how to live there and the trainrs can not teach them how to live in jungle and put them back its imposible. And then what the trainers should do with them just let them sleep all day long or what they want? of course they will use the chance and teach people about the animals to have more experience and the trainers are people with special school and they know better than us how to treat them

  • @Afrowoman12 fucking hell

  • those tigers do not like that....these people are idiots...

  • MY TIGERS DONT SWIM WITH ME!

  • thats not nice they are forced to swim those tigers want to get on the land

  • hope they bite ur dumbass next time

  • why pull them in their tails into the water... not very nice

  • i wish i had a pet tiger

  • Unique relationships? You guys hurt those beasts! And wanking their tail to force them into the water? how lame

  • @CelineVision uh are you retarded or just a troll

  • So cute! X3

  • A tiger's natural desire is to hunt not swim around with a bunch of silly humans in a caged habitat.

  • @strafer I must agree with you :) But Tigers do swim in the wild as well :D Which is really interesting, many people out there thinks that cats can't swim but they indeed can. Most animals on this planet gets born with the instinct to be able to swim. But making tigers swim for entertainment is really really bad >:( They belong in the wild!

  • veery funny

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  • It's one thing to let tigers swin IF THEY WANT TO, but it's another thing to force them to swin just to show to people. That institute is just a zoo !

  • those tigers dont look so happy. and there is absolutely no reason to "teach" them to swim they'll already know how and what are they going to need to know how to swim for?? they live NO where near water they would want to swim in regularly. and if they're in a zoo why would they need to swim?

  • lets get craig busche on this biatch

  • 1 word ...... rawr

  • q hermoso!

  • 0:08 Yeah lets force them into the water by pulling them by the tail

  • Tigers, originating in Asia for the most part, and the denser, more tropically similar area's at that, are natural swimmers, and are known to take a dip simply to cool off on hot days. They also sometimes have to hunt prey that lives in said water, something else they are actually pretty good at. Sadly, these facts are largely unknown by the general population.

  • tigers arent meant to be in water, they are originally african animals from what I believe, they are meant to run fast and hunt their prey

  • @crustylion321 theyre not african theyre asian and they can swim because sometimes they have to to hunt their prey

  • @crustylion321 What? Tigers love to swim... They have tons of water to do so in there natural habitat. And after they got in the water (although forced to do so which I think was wrong of the trainers) they enjoyed it. You could tell they were excited after getting in but didn't want to at first (once again, it's wrong to force animals to do things that they don't want to do).

  • Swimming tiger is not amused.

  • That's a tigon, and they did look a little apprehensive, but so does a kid when you take them swimming. Swimming is good exercise and natural to tigers, Perhaps they should have had a little more time to get used to it without the pressure and noise of the public first, though, that's intimidating for anyone.

  • Americans...

  • @ilias900 hell yes, 10 times better than europeans.

  • it's never nice to see people treating bad animals. Let them free, if you don't love them!!!

  • yea grab a fully grown male tiger by the tail into the water he doesn't want then see what happens ass hole

  • there girl lions

  • First Thats Fucking Crazy,Second Why Doesent that tiger Scratch her or...Bite Her Head off.

  • Rosetta Stone software is the biggest ripoff and crock of shit ever. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!

  • @MrZiode wtf?

  • @coldassassin556 Raging against the ads, sorry.

  • @MrZiode Haha, the ads before the vid? I feel ya there man. They suck

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    mostly lions and tigers are NOT like it people pulls both cats tails

  • this is terrible they treat all these animals just like these tigers at zoos all over the place. fuck zoos and dont pay for this kind of animal cruelty

  • fuck the zoo

  • If I was that tiger, I'd bite that idiotic trainers head off.

  • How was this video raw?

  • hola saludos desde Perú, que tiernos animalitos...

  • hae you tiger kill them now. you fucking peoples why you make animals as a slave (pet)?

  • They shouldn't treat tigers like this. And pulling it by it's tail into the water, that is just wrong. They were forcing these animals to swim against their will, and the tigers looked really angry about it. If anything is animal cruelty, it's this.

  • O_O someone MUST rescue those tigers.. :(

  • fatal attractions

  • Mmmm, Wet Pussy - In my Homer Voice.

  • THEY REALLY SHOUDLNT TEACH A TIGER HOW TO SWIM WHEN YOU TREAT IT LIKE THAT .SO THEN LATER THAT DAY IF IT GETS CRAZY THE POOL IS GOING TO BE ONE LESS PLACE TO RUN I MEAN IF A TIGER THAT DOESNT KNOW HOW TO SWIM GETS CRAZY WOULDNT YOU TRY TO GET TO THE POOL WHERE YOU KOW IT CANT GET YOU AND IF IT DID GO INTO THE WATER WITHOUT KNOWING HOW TO SWIM IT PROBABLY WOUNLDNT GO AS FAST .

  • those tigers don't look very amused... 

  • @david000009 cats dont like water!

  • CUTE

  • I am not sure what are they trying to learn those children behind the glass and pulling this young tiger at the beginning by the tail to get into the water is not even a little funny to me. I hate to see confused, humiliated and trained an animal which is otherwise very dangerous. this is not the success of humanity, it is just an attempt to defeat nature and its instincts.

  • That is SO FUCKED UP!

  • azs long azs imm breathing im ok azs long azs imm breathing im ok azs long azs imm breathing im ok azs long ahhhhhhh waterrr!!!! lol

  • Forcing them to swim is just wrong..

  • they do not look happy at all.:(.

  • Raw Video: Cat Swims in Pool

  • chick seems really rough with that little lion.... that's the type of animal trainer that gets a face full of teeth one day and then wonders what they did wrong.

  • I'd just like to say that if anyone says that the tigers are doing the doggie paddle, then I and some of my friends will come over and duff you up.

    Tiddles the Cat

  • tigers do swim in wild life in fact they can see uunderwatter very well they are good at it they hunt in watter all the time they like it this is like training nothing big deal

  • i wish the tigers bit their heads off

  • OMG!!! I can't believe the girl in the pink suit pulled the tiger's tail just so he would go in the water!!! What a bitch!!

  • Yes, because pushing and pulling these youngsters into water is going to make a bond? They don't look too happy and this is the reason why people get attacked by Tigers. They get too close and treat them like the pet dog (Just like this video). Of course they get complacent, forget it's a predator and BAM, unhappy tiger and an injured "trainer". A real trainer doesn't force the animal to do something it doesn't want to do. I wouldn't give these people the name of "trainer."

  • I Agree with @IAmADalek. It is bad to use animals like this, for a show.. oO Sadly there aren't enough people to stop this. They aren't good Animal trainers, even a good swim trainer. I love tigers how they are, and what they do, without pushing or pulling. That is cute! Not this.

  • Those tigers didn't look too happy. I am surprised one didn't bite someone.

    

  • 0:15

    tiger:"whut you doin' bitch?"

  • Pobresitos.. :( they obviously didn't want to swim that much.

  • i wanted to see the water turn red ...

  • One swipe of those claws will make your intestines come out.

  • if they wanted a show the tiget should have just ripped her head off....that would be something worth seeing

  • That's adorable, but i feel bad for the poor tiger yanked in by it's tail -_-"

  • now the wet pussy

  • @robamust win.

  • MYRTLE BITCH

    South Carolina

  • I hope wen the tigers are biger they eat this bitches

  • this seems cruel

  • All i know his they bet not throw away a good box of frostedFlakes or they will freak the fuck out

  • I want that tiger : )

  • 0:44 culda been a way better vid if that tiger bite his arm off

  • THUMBS UP IF CATS DONT LIKE WATER

  • @georgechimpanzee Tigers are one of the few big cats or cats period that actually love the water. They have a webbing between the nubs of their paws that makes them good swimmers. I do agree though they should't have been forced to go in the water if they didn't want too.

  • they are in total distress. The people forced the tigers in. They want to get out, you can see it. And there was NO NEED to pull the one tiger by the tail.

  • poor tiger

  • I wish I could work at a Zoo like that.

    Man, I'd LOVE to be able to work with animals :D

  • @BeautifulPengu Does your local zoo accept volunteers? You might try that and go from there.

  • @TheHawaiiantiger Well, we don't have a local Zoo where I am ^_^ lol

    

  • the girl in pink was really iritating...i wanted to shoot her a several times while wathcing the video.

  • Yeah- greatly endangered species being pulled out of the wild. Not good. "We drag our tigers around the pool for your amusement! These are wild animals, but we handle them in chlorinated water because tourists like to watch it."  Tigers love the water, but they need to enjoy it on their own. This place looks just like a circus.

  • They're fucking cute!

  • poor animals..they should be in the wild.

  • @RunnersHighz yea i agree but they live 20 more years when there in captivity, and the animals adapt to it :) so it'll be okay :)

  • i don't like this whatsoever

  • @Dangoxs they live longer while in captivity :) and the animals like it kinda not flying ones they don't deserve to be locked up :(

  • Those who consider themselves human should not go to this kind of place. The tiger are young the swimming pool is deep and they must not be undertook to

    do that. Cowards !!!!!! Sorry for english mistakes. I agree with xkissxokiss.

  • I smiled watching this video and enjoyed seeing the tigers being playful and treated 99% well...though seeing the girl at the beginning of the video pulling the one by the tail...made me want to grab her by the hair and throw her in the water...that really didn't seem like it was necesary...

  • i loved that place it was awsome and one of the best things in my life i have done yall dont understand how much they have done. Tbhis is a hand on experiance with animals of all kinds and are trained very well. They have been in over 500 movies and tv shows including ace ventera, dr. dolittle and on j leno many times.

  • poor animals, those assholes made them do such thing and god knows how hard it was for them to learn...people just watch and go " oh thats nice " but im pretty sure thats not what the tigers think...if tiger woods was there he would avenge all those tigers

  • Omg they are so cute!!! Except for the beginning where that girl in the pink suit grabbed it by the tail! :( Such animal cruelty! They should be treated better!

  • @AnaLuvYewx3 LOL? You seriously made me laugh? If you were a tiger, you'd see it as a game? Dumbfuck?? The same as dolphins if they didn't get trained to jump and all the other things they would get bored and stressed and then die?! But dumbfucks like you think it's animal cruelty wouldn't it be more animal cruelty if they got that stressed they would die? Do some research before dumpin stupid fuck ass comments?!

  • I reallllly disliked seeing the girl in the pink suit pulling the cub in the beginning by the TAIL to get into the pool. She doesnt NEED to do that. It's like me pulling her by her hair into the water when she doesn't want, for someone elses amusement!

  • don't compare them to humans. they are durable

  • and humans arent?

  • @2drc Tiger are durable? They have blood, muscles, bones, as us, have feelings, intelligence and sometimes more than humans.

  • @nostudoable What are you trying to to say ...

  • @2drc Hi, I can answer your questiom with pleasure, but I don't understand what you want me to explain for you, OK?!

  • @2drc

    Are you retarded or do you not understand english.

  • @xkissxokissxokillx WTF NO! They see this like a fuckin playin moment and they loves to it? It keeps them in shape and they have fun and the tiger don't care this also happens i the wild when they plays at kids but then they gets bitten and pulled in the tail, but they don't fuckin' care....

  • @xkissxokissxokillx i´m sorry, are you a tiger trainer? maybe it just doesnt hurt them! they are not as small as cats!!!

  • @xkissxokissxokillx you're an idiot

  • @xkissxokissxokillx dude chill out

  • @xkissxokissxokillx UR A FUCKING RETARD I WOULD HAVE A SHOTGUN POINTED AT THE THINGS HEAD IF I WAS NEAR IT THOUSE THINGS WILL RIPP YOUR HEAD OFF EVEN IF YOU HAVE TRAINED IT AND BONDED WITH IT SINCE IT WAS BORN

  • @xkissxokissxokillx You misunderstand the meaning behind the tail. It's not punishment nor does the cat take it that way. Pulling you by the hair is not even close to qood comparison.

  • @xkissxokissxokillx Actually, if you watch a mother tiger with her cubs in the wild, she will gently pull on their their tails to keep them close to her while she's nursing or keeping watch over them. Kind of like domestic cats carrying their kittens by the nape of the neck. Or a parent holding a child by the hand or arm to keep them close.

    However, those Tigers seem to be irratated. Like Rebootrevival said, Tigers swim when they want to and the Human trainers are not realizing that.

  • @xkissxokissxokillx but you see, she gets abused at home so its only normal

  • @xkissxokissxokillx who the fuck cares, it probably doesn't even hurt the animal.