please don't put down OZ sumartan tiger hamilton zoo nz

Wild animals are predators that are forced to kill to survive. They are NOT domestic pets! They were also meant to roam freely & kill for food, NOT be confined or caged. However, when caused enough stress and confinement they can and will kill in frustration. Humans don't realise the stress and emotional trauma that caging and restriction cause wild animals. Zoos' ugly, enclosed areas can cause them to literally go insane. It is so unnatural for them to be confined like this - it is nothing but a living death for them. We only have to ask ourselves how we would like to be shut up in a cemented area with a glass wall at one end where people constantly stared at us (or similar type imprisonment)? The same old cement or other ground, the same old glass wall, day after day after day. No change, year in year out until we died. The stress would be unbelievable! Zoos should be BANNED - worldwide - they're nothing but a moneymaking venture because of man's greed. You'd think in this 'enlightened' age we would have learned SOMETHING about loving and caring for these fellow global inhabitants. NOTHING will be achieved by killing this tiger. And, it has done NOTHING that is not within its normal animal behaviour range. It is the HUMANS who need to take more care if they are going to take on the risk of confining wild animals.