Today is "International Tiger Day." It's also "National Lasagna Day" so if your tiger is hungry you know what to feed it. I believe there is a tiger striped cat who is famous for loving lasagna so I guess the two days kind of go together.
I personally don't have a tiger although I do think they are beautiful animals, but best viewed from a safe distance, for instance, on the other side of a fence at the zoo.
I have never had a tiger but I have had a few cats who liked to let their inner tiger out from time to time. Like tigers in the the wild, house cats lounge around a lot (it's been estimated that they sleep at least 23 hours a day) but can spring into action when called upon.
My most memorable example of this involved my good old cat Athena. One day a bird got into our house. I think it had gone into the garage and got trapped in there when the overhead door was closed. The next time I opened the door from the garage into the house it flew in, looking for a way to escape.
It was making loops around the dining room at ceiling level while I tried to figure out how to get it outside. While I was pondering the problem my dear old Athena took things into her own paws.
She leaped straight up into the air, caught the bird on her first try, snapped it's neck and presented it to me as a fait accompli. Talk about instincts. Athena was a mature, to put it kindly, declawed house cat who never went outside, but deep inside her lurked that tiger. I'm glad she had that chance to let it out.
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