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Bro someone get this girl on E rn

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Someone help this girl transition!

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Link ~~~

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Was recently at a zoo where a man had his large service dog with him. The tiger at the tiger exhibit seemed like it wanted to kill the dog. It was pacing back and forth, following the dog alongside the exhibit. It looked agitated. The dog didn’t really react or do anything of note. The owner of the dog was loving this, bragging about how his dog wasn’t scared and trying to taunt the tiger further.

My question is: Do you think the tiger was stressed or enriched by this experience?

It's hard to tell if it was a negative without seeing it, but I can tell you that that's an inappropriate way to handle the tiger's reaction if you're bringing a service dog to a zoo.

To be really clear up front: I absolutely support service dog teams having equal access to zoos. But there are some constraints it is reasonable (and legal) for facilities to put on their access in order to protect the zoo animals. The most obvious one is excluding SDs from fence-less walk through exhibits for their safety and the safety of the collection animals. But part of the general rules for SD team access is that if an animal is agitated by the presence of your dog, you go somewhere else. This is very commonly a thing with large carnivores (and I know some zoos that prohibit dogs from those areas entirely because of it). It's important for SD teams to have access to zoos, but it's also important that they're respectful of the animals that live there too. Sometimes you just don't know if an animal is going to react or if your dog is going lose their mind over a stingray. What's important is how the handler chooses to deal with the situation.

As to whether it was enriching or stressful... if I'm being technical, it could be both at the same time. Stress over positive experiences (eustress) is still stress, and negative experiences are technically enriching (novel stimulus and experience). The best way to phrase the question is if the cat was distressed by the dog being there, and that I can't say without seeing the behavior myself and/or showing it to people with lots of years of tiger care experience. Regardless, if the tiger was having an outsized reaction the dog, moving along would have been the appropriate and respectful choice.

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The biggest misconception in public schools is that literary analysis is about proving you can be right or wrong about a book you read

Literary analysis isn’t about the book

It’s not even about being right

It’s about performing an investigation and presenting your case to the jury

It doesn’t matter if your defendant killed that guy or not. If you can convince the jury he didn’t, you’ve won

And the incredible life skill of spinning bulletproof bullshit out your ass with a handful of facts and a prayer is soooooooo much more valuable than anyone’s ever gonna tell you

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this pride month i want everyone to consider the benefits of abolishing the sex binary

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the problem with buying food is after you eat it you have to go buy more food

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i will not be having an ipad baby. i will be having a Pea baby

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Alright guys, gals, and enbys, it might be a billion degrees out right now and the bus was late and I'm dripping sweat in public transportation, but GUESS WHO IS WEARING A DRESS TO THE OFFICE FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY??

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"drug-seeking behavior" woah the patient wants u to treat their ailments with medicine ...... thats crazy

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Manga makes me play colour guessing every time I see a new character I'd like to draw haha

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"drug-seeking behavior" woah the patient wants u to treat their ailments with medicine ...... thats crazy

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Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

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