Tigers in Thailand

Thank you for clarifying that @SwampDonkey

If we have a tiger expert, they will know best, how can a non-sedated tame tiger react along people, other than attacking them.

Maybe only mildly sedated with lower doses from approved drugs (some people may think they drug them with strong unaporoved drugs). Approved drugs like ones used to treat epilepsy or hiperagression or to relieve stress during transporting the animal, just to look like they are not. From what I have seen, they were moving in the enclosure. Deeply sedated animal, can't move. This was around 10 minutes after I took photo with this tiger: Log into Facebook | Facebook

However, this does not mean that I think it is acceptable to sedate dangerous animals even mildly, just for the purpose of taking pictures with them.
 
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I'd suggest reading some information on this sort of circus like interaction.

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Did you check the tigers had their claws, or indeed their teeth?

With all this 'experience' type stuff it might be a lifetime experience for a human but it certainly isn't for the animals.

This sort of animal abuse makes the work of legitimate zoos far harder as people think all animals are being treated the same in captivity.
 
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Did you check the tigers had their claws, or indeed their teeth?
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No, I didn't. I was too afraid, and left the enclosure after 3-4 minutes (and there were actually two tigers in the same enclosure, the other was moving somewhere in the back of the enclosure, behind my back).

These one, had teeth, but they are not the same tiger I took photo with:
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**Some technical corrections for the previous posts:
Phetchaburi province, not Petchaburi
Kanchanaburi province, not Kanchanburi
Kaeng Krachan NP, not Kaen Krachang
 
However, I must admit that, when enetering the park Tiger Kingdom Chiang Mai, I was asked which tiger I want to take a photo with, big, medium or to see cubs (as I can recall my memory) (but you don't need to enter an enclosure if you don't want to, you can only be making a visit like in a ordinarly zoo with the same ticket option). The big tigers cost more money, so I chosed a ticket with medium tiger option. Then I saw how other visitors were taking pictures with the big tigers, and they were not moving, they were just laying but conscious with heads up. Maybe they were sedated enough, but I didn't had close encounter with the bigger tigers to observe them upclose. After reading some stories on net, it might be that they only sedate bigger tigers, not the medium-sized tigers, thus they looked more alive and were moving in the enclosure, which led to my presumption they were not sedated.
However it was, I won't enter an enclosure with a live tiger for a sole purpose to take a photo anymore, but maybe I will want to visit similar facilities just to check how animals are treated in them. It is similar like when you are visiting a substandard zoo (substandard means, animals are not treated as they should be treated).
 
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