Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 29, 2014

Tiger shaving? Now there’s a hobby …

Who was stupid enough to shave a tiger, then stand there checking out his stripes?If it had been me…. I’d have run like the wind.

I’d rather shave a rat…less complaints when the razor slips!

AP where are you when we need you?

It’s a parasite spread by cat poop. According to the CDC, it’s the leading cause of death from food-born illness. They estimate that at least 60,000,000 in the US are infected.

The founder of BOA’a granddaughter was on 60 minutes, and when asked what she thought of how it was being run.She said that what they are doing was “Criminal”.and "Against every standard that her Grandfather founded his bank on.

Question: “Hey Big Bad Pete, want to come help me shave a tiger a see if the stripes are on the skin as well?”

Answer: “You know what, I think I’ll pass…”

Guy gets a job at the Zoo. They hand him a razor and tell him to go shave the tiger.He sees the tiger all sprawled out in his cage and thinks he better find out exactly how to shave it. He looks around and sees this guy painting a wall. He goes up and asks, “Hey, Man, how do you shave the tiger?”“Oh, I just open up the door, go in and start shaving.”So in the cage he goes and the tiger jumps on him and mauls him within a stripe from death.Fresh back at work months later after he’s discharged from the hospital they hand him a razor and tell him to go shave the tiger.He sees the tiger all sprawled out and thinks, “I must have mis-understood what that guy told me.” He looks around and sees the guy weeding a flower bed so over he goes.“Hey, Man, how do you shave the tiger?”“Oh, I just open up the door, go in and start shaving.”“Well, when I do that the tiger jumps on me and mauls me within a stripe of death.”The weeder looks at him and nods, “Yeah, I know, he does the same thing to me.”

My black-and-white cat is the same way. When he was shaved for a surgery, I could see that his skin was darker in the exact same places that his fur was dark.

I do believe the Zebra is the same way under it’s coat..\\//_

Suicidal suggestion parasites scare me. Someday there might be something like that for human beings.

So a tiger may lose his fur but it won’t lose his stripes… Sounds like a wise old proverb from India.