Tatiana the Siberian Tiger

Don’t mess with a tiger.
She will whack your skull and kill your intoxicated friend.

On the East side of Coit Tower, down the Greenwich steps halfway to Sansome, a local artist has made a memorial statue to honor Tatiana the Tiger. I suggest walking from the bottom and up, and you’ll see on the right hand side a cobblestone path lined with wood planks (not somebody’s backyard!) that leads to an opening. At the top of the slope in the brush, you’ll see a mosaic painted life size statue of the tiger underneath a small banana tree. The memorial marks the one year anniversary of the death of the tiger that everyone, except for these Unilocalers, forgets to mourn.
RIP Tatiana!

FIVE STARS!
Great work Tatiana! You show those punks what it means to mess with a tiger!
If ever a truer lesson needed to be learned by a more worthy set of students, I can’t think of it.
Do you think those brats who lived through it will ever f@ck with a tiger ever again?
Too bad the cops put you down for those punks’ stupidity!

Tatiana’s zodiac sign is Cancer. Those born under this sign are sensitive and lovable.

Matt’s 700^th review is dedicated to the San Francisco Zoo’s biggest and courageous attraction: Tatiana the 350 lb. Siberian tiger, who was fatally shot and died on December 25, 2007.
In 2004, the Fantastic-​4 was very fortunate to have made a trip to the San Francisco Zoo, and was extremely privileged to have met the up and coming feline and her attraction. We thought the she was the biggest thing in San Francisco since the grand-​opening of the San Francisco Giant’s newest ballpark. Her tiger skin inspires wife to buy a pair of tiger-​skin lingerie for the feline’s sexy and suave move across the cage.
What people don’t realize is that being in the wildlife is not an easy living. Tigers are one of the dangerous creatures living at captivity. These three street-​punks found out the «difficult» way.
On Christmas day of 2007, three boys were at the San Francisco Zoo and for some evidential cause; Tatiana escaped from her cage and attacked the three kids, fatally killing one of the boys. Tatiana’s escape from her cage terrified other spectators including the San Francisco Police Dept., in which they have no choice in shooting and justifiably killing the Siberian Feline.
Miraculously, two of the victims were sent to the San Francisco General Hospital and made a full recovery physically, but not mentally. The surviving punks were very lucky, they were alive or else they would’ve not only died, but get eaten like Matt eating a drumstick at KFC. The two survivors refused to confess to the authorities, whether foul-​play were involved. The case is still unsolved.
In present time, many concerned San Francisco Zoo’s official, city officials and other disturbed citizen are having an ongoing testimony about a future plan of the zoo’s system. On an unrelated matter, many citizens felt that what SFPD did was unnecessary and inhumane.
According to the Criminal Justice System, if your life is at risk, the use of deadly force is highly necessary. I mean, what does SFPD know about controlling a dangerous 400lb. Siberian Tiger? What the agency did was the right thing, but other people thought it was uncalled for and remain a controversy.
In conclusion, Tatiana is in a better place right now and joining other celebrities who died in 2007, including Captain America.
RIP: Tatiana the Siberian Tiger
(June 23, 2003– December 25, 2007)

Number of Siberian Tigers murdered in SF in 2007: 1
Number of humans murdered in SF in 2007: 98
Number of Unilocal eulogies for murdered SF humans… ?
5 stars for compassion for animal suffering and concern for endangered species. 0 stars for complacency and fatigue about the unjust human condition.

Poor kitty, she was just doing what cats do… poor kitty, imprisoned all her life, taunted by idiotic people, shot to death for being the awesome hunting machine that she should have been.
Poor kitty…

There are like 6 billion people on the planet versus about 5000 tigers. Unlike humans, tigers don’t really kill things for no reason.
Why was the zoo open on Xmas? And who would let their teenagers runaround unsupervised with alcohol? Poor Tatiana… killed for being the only one who was probably doing what she was supposed to be doing.

RIP kitty meow~
i would have tried to jump out if i was locked in at sf zoo too… it’s a super depressing zoo… you would probably have been a lot happier if you were at the zoo in singapore, now that’s a real zoo…
:)
too bad you killed the wrong person… but then again all people pretty much look the same to tigers right?

By definition: BADASS MOFO!!!
Tatiana was like Rocky… people were always hating. And being a fighter at heart she took what was hers.
I remember this one time we had strolled all the way down to the Beach Challet, you know, doing a little of this, a little that. Good conversation. People were being all mean to Tatiana. F* them. Let them sink to the bottom of the bay I would yell. Tatiana always kept her cool. But I guess she lost it bro. Can you blame her?
RIP.

«In the 1930’s the Siberian Tiger population had fallen to as low as 20, but they recovered quickly under the protection from hunting. Once numbering as many as 2,000, the Siberian tiger now has an estimated population between 300 to 400 in the wild.
Poaching of tigers and its prey, increased logging and construction of roads, forest fires and inadequate law enforcement are threats that affect the survival of the species. As with all endangered species genetic diversity is key to its survival, if the population becomes too small and genetically similar (as with cheetahs) they do not adapt well and are vulnerable. Ultimately the entire health of the ecosystem is at stake.
It is a shame this rare Siberian Tiger was in this zoo and the entire incident tragic (any pathetic taunting and lack of action on the zoo’s part to act on such behavior included)
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People are fucking idiots.
«OMG. We don’t understand how the cat could’ve jumped 20 ft!!!»
We have people that can jump 20 fucking ft. So what’s not to understand?!

In early December we had the pleasure of seeing Tatiana on a Saturday morning at the SF Zoo .
She was one beautiful exotic sexy feline. Easily 600+ lbs of striped badonkadonk. Such wonderful colors, and elegance! The lions looked mighty unkempt in comparison.
Her male companion nearby was easily much bigger. But somehow she had a coolest «don’t F**K with me» vibe about her that commanded the utmost respect, awe, and appreciation.
I am saddened by this loss.
Ironically while going through my old Marvel comic book collection (clutter rather), I found and leafed through an issue of Silver Surfer from the early 1990s It was either issue #54 or #56 that was quite apt to this tale. This surfer dude was somehow taking a break from the Infinity Gauntlet wars, fighting The Rhino from the Spiderman comic. The Rhino broke into a zoo and tried to set a tiger free. The end result of the story was that during the tiger’s escape, it had threatened the life of zoo goers, and a police officer reacted by shooting it to death. The only difference here between comic book and reality, is that we have no Silver Surfer using «cosmic powers» to restore life to the tiger, which happened in the comic book. The Rhino realized that the zoos were there for a reason, to keep the wild animals «from harm».
RIP Tatiana. May you be reincarnated into an even more noble carnivorous creature (anything except a politician).

She was who we thought she was…
(a caged wild animal)

I do not understand why they should kill a tiger for doing what a tiger does best. Hunt.
I am not against zoos, but I am against improper cage facilities and people taunting animals (if that is true).
It won’t hunt people again if you are able to keep it inside its own cage.

Free all of those trapped big cats and Elephants currently in sad, sad zoos. At best they should be left in the wild, at worst they should be in humane sanctuaries away from mean humans.
R.I.P. Tatiana!

the media seems amazed that she was able to track the two who got away…
just because she doesn’t speak english doesn’t mean she’s dumb.
If someone threw things and teased me, I’d try to chew on them too.
Hear, hear, kitty.
hope you are in a much better place.
And as for those guys, isn’t this what’s called «natural selection»?

Just doing what comes naturally.
May the four winds blow you safely home, Tatiana.

Thank you Mike for eulogizing her.
Maybe when ‘humans’ start realizing animals are not suppose to be locked up in cages for our ‘enjoyment’ (?) these events won’t happen anymore.

An awesome and beautiful creature, doing what came naturally to her, and shot dead as a result.
Rest in peace, Tatiana.