FIND ME HERE: http://www.youtube.com/user... , my MAIN ANIMAL RIGHTS channel.

AND PLZ GO HERE: http://freetonythetiger.wor...
for more info and CURRENT TONY UPDATES.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. ~ Thoreau

Update Jan 4, 2012: Another suit filed by Sandlin
http://theadvocate.com/news...

UPDATE Dec 28, 2011
Sandlin defends Joe Exotic. Article cites several violations against Joe, including the 23 cubs that died in his care last year.
http://theadvocate.com/home...

UPDATE Dec 20, 2011
http://theadvocate.com/home...

UPDATE Dec 12, 2011
http://theadvocate.com/home...

Dec 6, 2011 Motion DENIED

Nov 20, 2011: SANDLIN files another APPEAL asking for a NEW TRIAL.

ALDF Update Nov 2, 2011: Judge Michael Caldwell has ruled in favor of the ALDF's lawsuit to free Tony from the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete LA. Caldwell agreed with ALDF's argument that the permit that allows Sandlin to keep Tony was unlawfully issued by the LDWF.The judge ordered the LDWF to revoke current permit and prohibited issuance of any new permits to the Truck Stop.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
~ Rumi

"Animals do have a voice. If you ignore their suffering, I will remind you of it. If you don't understand them, I will translate. If you don't hear them, I will be their voice. You may silence them but you cannot silence me as long as I live."
~ Anita Mahdessian

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins of fur and feather so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the devil in human form." ~ William Ralph Inge

"The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it."
~ Axel Munthe, Swedish Writer and Physician, 1857-1949
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon will be too late."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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CATASTROPHIC OIL SPILL
BP DEEP HORIZON
The Gulf of Mexico
04.20.2010
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Black Panther and Leopard ~
Rare beauty and grace,
Piercing golden eyes,
Independent and stealthy,
Asking only to roam free.
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Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilised.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)
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In the woods I feel that nothing can befall me in life - no disgrace, no calamity which Nature cannot repair.
~ Emerson, Nature

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
~ Emerson
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The Panther (1905)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translation by Robert Bly
http://www.thebeckoning.com...
THE POEM

1. From seeing the bars, his seeing is so exhausted
2. that it no longer holds anything anymore.
3. To him the world is bars, a hundred thousand
4. bars, and behind the bars, nothing.

5. The lithe swinging of that rhythmical easy stride
6. which circles down to the tiniest hub
7. is like a dance of energy around a point
8. in which a great will stands stunned and numb.

9. Only at times the curtains of the pupil rise
10. without a sound . . . then a shape enters,
11. slips though the tightened silence of the shoulders,
12. reaches the heart, and dies
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Feel no shame for what you are..feel it as a water fall..fall in light, grow in light .. ~ Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk ~ Jeff Buckley ♪♫ ♥♥♥
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Animal Advocacy Links

http://aldf.org/
http://stopbsl.com/
http://www.youcouldsavethew...
http://www.stopanimaltests.com
http://search.caringconsume...
http://www.change.org/
http://peopleforreason.org/...
http://org2.democracyinacti...
http://www.thepetitionsite....
http://forcechange.com/7163...
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I once had a sparrow alight on my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods
(1854)
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
George Gordon (Lord Bryon)
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Cloversweed is my main animal rights channel. I am the Twin Panthers, Gemini. ♥♥
http://www.youtube.com/user...