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HoustonChronicle.com - Tiger seized from back yard of home Osborne has had Colby since he was a 6-month-old cub. He has kept him at his home for almost three years.
Osborne, who also has owned a cougar, said he expanded a room at his house to hold Colby and installed electrical fencing in his back yard. He said Colby has never tried to escape and has been gentle with his dogs and the few neighborhood kids who have been allowed to pet him.
{ah, ok. but. the whole story reads like a stealth zoo thing and then at the end little Katie has seen the tiger for the first time, but the neighbor kids have been petting it? for three years? the folks don't know next-door but...? ok so it's a trivial little human interest thing. but it's the mentality behind it and the editorial mind behind it and the readership behind it. the entire context in which this story appears, so full of illogic and cutesy sweetness and protective something and it's all horseshit really. false and misleading horseshit.}