"The Tiger Next Door" (tiger documentary) - a film about private ownership of wild animals

A trailer for "The Tiger Next Door" - A documentary film that tells the startling story of a man named Dennis Hill who has been breeding and selling tigers from his backyard for over 15 years. Hill's dream is to breed a stripeless white tiger - but at what cost to the animals, and at what risk to the community?

As the film begins, Hill has 24 tigers, 3 bears, 6 leopards and one cougar. But after a surprise government inspection, hes lost the license that allowed him to keep exotic animals, and the state of Indiana is threatening to shut him down. As Hill fights to hold on to his tigers over the days and months that follow, The Tiger Next Door follows him exploring his motives, his past, and the curious, ethically-murky world hes created in his backyard. At the same time, the film ranges far beyond Dennis animal compound, illuminating the connection between breeders like Hill, and the near-epidemic of wild animal keeping in the United States.

The film also features Joe Taft, Exotic Feline Rescue Center. Tim Santel, US Fish and Wildlife.

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[RadRosa89]

The way I see it, if you have to chain and animal up and lock it up in a cage because it would rip you to shreads if it was loose, then you shouldn't even have it anyways. Keep them in the wild.

[rrrina]

Disgraceful. Treats them "like his own kids?" Would he sell his own children? What an idiot. Disgusting. Tigers and ALL WILD ANIMALS belong in the WILD, not to be exploited and abused for profit. Shame on Dennis Hill.

[littlesongbird1]

@DogsneedpIeasuretoo I can tell. I know quite a bit so maybe you should educfate yourself. Both of those people owned tigers and they were neglected and they have quite a bit of money.

If we weren't breeding these animals to be sold as pets we would not have this problem.

[DogsneedpIeasuretoo]

@littlesongbird1

That was just an example, I know there are tigers that get used to living near humans and they become a danger to them, to pets, to farm animals, etc, is either kill them or lock them in a zoo. And I know is wrong that humans are destroying the environment, but I'm sure you agree is better to have them lock than death.

what about Mike Tyson and Paris Hilton?

PS: I don't know much about this subject.

[littlesongbird1]

@Fleefles Paris Hilton and Mike Tyson have money but they couldn't (or wouldn't) take care of their tigers.

[littlesongbird1]

@Weloveanimals4565 I saw the shortened version. If you have netflix you can rent the full one. I wrote my thesis on "US Legislature on Endangered Species as Exotic Pets". It was very interesting and appalling but since I have written it there have been a lot of changes made in the laws. (Not thanks to me, I mean thanks to current events, I wrote that thesis paper just a couple of years after the Harlem Tiger).

Plus this guy is just one example of many people across the country.

[littlesongbird1]

@DogsneedpIeasuretoo "People are" not "people is". Most drug dealers are not people just trying to make ends meet some are in facf I suspect the man in documentary did it out of desperation to feed his tigers but most are scum who don't care about anyone but themselves.

Also you must be on drugs if you think that there are any tigers in captivity because the mom died in the wild.

I support ethical zoos but not private ownership with tigers as pets. Look at Mike Tyson and Paris Hilton.

[DogsneedpIeasuretoo]

@littlesongbird1

Where I made grammar mistakes?

Mills = Bad, I don't support that.

So what if they where drug dealers? Drugs should not be illegal in the first place.

Some times mom tiger dies by accident or human self defense and then you find cubs, that is how some of them end up in zoos and then get breed and make more and more, I don't think is bad if you breed the ones that are already in captivity. (leave the wild ones alone)

[littlesongbird1]

@DogsneedpIeasuretoo Learn grammar.

Is it fair to be breeding these animals and selling them for money? Is it fair to take an wild animal (a tiger is never tame!) and try to make it go against it's nature and instinct?

There are tiger mills the same way there are puppy mills! Most of these breeders are former drug dealers who go into because it's just as much money and less legal problems!

[Weloveanimals4565]

I hate what this guy does, but know I want to see this movie!!!

[DogsneedpIeasuretoo]

Hmmm, they are being born and breed in captivity, they can't be set in the wild, this is how all human domestic animals came to exist. If the guy where stealing tiger from the wild I wold have a problem with him, but he is not doing that, though it sucks that he don't take care proper care of them (which is good that he lost his ownership rights)

PS: People is free to chose what ever pets they want to have, even if they may die some day to those pets, you can't make that choice for them.