Who are Phang and Mali, and here at the Pattaya Crocodile Farm, you will find some terrific tiger pictures and watch crocodiles go berserk
As Jack Corbett teases them mercilessly as he dangles a chicken above their heads. We chose to go to the Pattaya Crocodile Farm because Mali had her heart set on having pictures taken of her with a Tiger. But first, I took Phang and Mali to Khao Kheow Zoo in Siracha because I felt it was the best zoo in Thailand. And in the world.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to find the big cats at Khao Kheow zoo. And even if we did, I don’t think we could have taken close and personal pictures of Mali with tigers there.
I will put Thailand’s zoos way ahead of any in the United States for one simple reason. You can get up real close to the animals at Thailand’s zoos. Whereas in the U.S.A. Americans are so litigation conscious that the zoos won’t let you get anywhere near the animals. The United States is not even a shadow of its former greatness as far as I am concerned. You can’t even keep a wolf for a pet there. Whereas in Pattaya just a few years ago half-grown elephants roamed the bars.
I thought they’s be drugging the tigers at the Pattaya Crocodile Farm.
That’s what I told Mali when she told me how much she wanted me to take her pictures with a tiger. Because she was nearly terrified of getting up close and personal with real tigers. And when we were given the choice of Mali getting up close to a Tiger, we could choose between a white Tiger. And a colorful Bengal Tiger. It would cost me 300 baht to get pictures of Mali with the white tiger and just 200 baht with the Bengal Tiger.
Mali chose the Bengal Tiger, and i think she chose wisely. The white tiger didn’t seem all that with it. Perhaps its keepers drugged it. But maybe not. It didn’t look all that healthy to me.
But that Bengal Tiger was something else. There was nothing wrong with it that I could determine.
I had been around Tigers Before. For example, got a small white tiger up on the stage at a topless club in the United States. And had most of the strippers cradling it like a baby while they fed it milk from a baby bottle. But Smokey (that was the white tiger’s name) must have weighed around 40 pounds. Which is ab out the size of a medium sized dog. But even though this Bengal Tiger probably weighed 400 pounds or so, I felt Mali would be perfectly safe around it.
After taking pictures of Mali with the magnificent animal I asked its keeper a few questions. The tiger’s handler told me the zoo never had any problems with its tigers. And Mali’s new friend had been born and raised at the Crocodile Farm.
But I had no such sympathy for the Crocodile Farm’s crocodiles. And I told both Mali and Phang that I wanted to eat crocodile at the zoo’s restaurant. Unfortunately, the restaurant was closed.
So, I was not able to avenge all those thousands of people who have been killed (and eaten) by Crocodiles over the past century. But I still got the better of them when I fed them a chicken which I hoisted above them with a long bamboo fishing rod. They were ferocious. They were fast. But I was much faster, and I sincerely hope that I totally pissed all those crocodiles off.
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