2 weeks Ago
A caged Bengal tiger was wheeled on to the field of Tiger Stadium in Louisiana's capital of Baton Rouge for the first time in nearly a decade before kick-off of Saturday night's football game between the state's flagship university and its Alabama counterpart, fulfilling the wishes of the state's Republican governor, Jeff Landry. The tiger in question – whose forced participation outraged animal rights activists – was not the one which lives on the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus, Mike VII. Its name is Omar Bradley, ostensibly in honor of the famed US military general from the second world war.
The animal is reportedly owned by a man with a history of citations from the US agriculture department over a lack of proper care for his animals, according to the Louisiana newspaper the Advocate. Following the death of the school's previous tiger, Mike VI, in 2016, LSU announced that future Mike the Tigers, the school's mascot, would no longer be brought on to the field – ending a longstanding campus tradition. According to the school's website, Mike.
.. Guardian staff reporter.
