bigcatawareness:

This comes from cee4life on instagram, whom I have just been made aware of by panthxra(through a video I will be posting soon also).  I sometimes think I am past the point of being shocked.  But then I see things like this.

This tiger….he looks close to death or drugged out of his mind.  I know I often refer to the incredibly poor diet as a reason for the lethargy, but this is a different level.  This is a cat that is so far from itself that there is no way it is just diet.

There is no logical way or reason people could defend this place after seeing things like this.  Seeing such blatant abuse.  Blatant cruelty.

And Tiger Temple’s response on Instagram when being asked about this?

he is not being drugged, we in no way sedate any of our tigers. This is an unfortunate media spin. […]

there was a lot of distractions making him somewhat excitable, and the guest continue to want the photo, placing the towel over his eyes preventing him from see what was going on and this[sic] allowing the photo.  This is very easy for us to prove as it is very easy to take many videos of this tiger doing the head in lap photo without the towel.