Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/06/tiger-only-seems-mildly-pertur.html
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Tiger is all dude stop that tooth hurts… oh wait, it quit now thanks.
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Thems are just baby teeth he’s pulling.
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I’ve never seen the movie so if there’s a joke there I won’t be able to get it however I actually just would have assumed that they’d use anasthetic or at least a strong sedative. Maybe they do use a sedative and that is what a sedated but conscious tiger looks like. That tiger is more chill about having a tooth pulled than my cat is about my feeble attempts at brushing his teeth (I gave up btw… he’s a sweet cat… I can even get him to take medicine without a struggle but the minute the teeth are touched I need protective gear to avoid bloodshed and he sulks for days).
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Yeah. Trying to brush a cat’s teeth is like trying to . . . well, it’s like trying to brush a cat’s teeth.
(I think we just created a new cat simile!)
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Let’s see him try that with a regular cat. He’ll be covered in claw marks for sure.
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Yeah, in the movie the serial killer (who is normally such a sweet guy when he’s not butchering families) takes his blind girlfriend on a date to the zoo so she can feel up a tiger while it’s under sedation to get a tooth fixed. They apparently spent a lot of money making a fake tiger for the scene.
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It’s a great scene in the book; can’t remember the one in the movie. 
Given the age of the tiger, that was probably a baby tooth that hadn’t come out on its own.
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Tiger after dentist.
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In the show I guess they spent a lot of money sedating a real tiger.
Yeah, my cat would go from big sweet kitty boy to destroyer of flesh.
Cats have 3 settings:
- Sweet and Cuddly
- Aloof and Indifferent
- F*ck up Your Sh*t
(and crazy cat glitch mode, but that isn’t an official setting)
They can change settings almost instantly.
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Just still in beta. The catnip and laser pointer feature toggles are well known, though.
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I would guess it’s a milk tooth that was just dangling on a last bit of tissue. It would probably hurt no more than when you pull a child’s loose milk tooth with a bit of string.
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Pull my teeth, will you? I know just the tooth to maul you with.
…wait, why isn’t this working?
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I didn’t see that episode. I’d have thought they could just pull the movie prop out of storage or something.
Some further searching suggests that you may be right:
https://twitter.com/bryanfuller/status/630211870956191744?lang=en
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Wait until the tiger gets the dental bill. Then he’ll wish he’d killed him.
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