Apparently, a minor Buddhist temple about 90 minutes due west of Bangkok started to accept wild, homeless animals a few years ago, and somebody actually showed up with a tiger! Amazing! So the monks just accepted the animal and took care of the tiger, and then the word spread around Thailand that if you had an extra tiger hanging around your house, and the animal was eating you out of house and home, you could donate it to these monks near Kanchanaburi.
What a story! and it's all true.
I have contacted the photographer who took these photos at the wat/temple/animal sanctuary.....and asked for some more photos, plus some extended commentary.
Once again, this is Flickr. Have you joined today?
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Update: Sometimes people don't realize that they are ready to be great writers. I asked the author of this post and photo about the tigers in Thailand, and this person wrote back....doubting their ability to write anything of interest. How wrong. Just look at this message. It's all here. Questions. Conflict. Doubt. I've written back to this person and asked them for more stories and updates. Here's a great story in the making....
Okay...I posted a few more to the group page, with commentary. Not sure exactly what to say about it though. It was disheartening and fascinating all at the same time. Every person that walks in the door destroys all sense of normalcy, environmentally speaking, for the tigers. But it's necessary to fund their upkeep and upgrade to a better habitat.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
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Okay...I posted a few more to the group page, with commentary. Not sure exactly what to say about it though. It was disheartening and fascinating all at the same time. Every person that walks in the door destroys all sense of normalcy, environmentally speaking, for the tigers. But it's necessary to fund their upkeep and upgrade to a better habitat.
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