Tiger Torment: PETA Slams LSU Plan to Make Big Cat ‘Attend’ the Ball Game
For Immediate Release:
November 7, 2024
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Associate Director of Captive Wildlife Research Klayton Rutherford in response to reports that Louisiana State University (LSU) plans to display a live tiger for public amusement at its home game against the University of Alabama on Saturday:
It’s shameful and out of touch with today’s respect for wild species that LSU has bowed to Gov. Jeff Landry’s campaign to display a live tiger at its football games to amuse the fans. LSU rightly ended this idiotic, archaic practice nearly a decade ago after recognizing that it was cruel to subject a sensitive big cat to the noise, lights, and crowds in a football stadium. Whether the tiger is confined to campus or shipped in from elsewhere, no reputable facility would subject a tiger to such chaos and stress, and PETA and nearly 50,000 of its supporters have already called on Landry to let up and leave big cats alone—and are now urging LSU to grow a spine and just say no.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
