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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Virile Vampire strikes again: has pet tiger


This guy just cracks me up. I could almost make a separate label just for the Virile Vampire his'self.

Mr. Macho now has a tiger for a pet (no I don't endorse wild cats as pets, btw). No joke. Here's some teaser text from the Guardian article, click for the full article.

He is famous for his macho stunts - which have included stripping to his waist during a Siberian fishing trip, skiing down a volcano and doing judo.

But yesterday Vladimir Putin, Russia's answer to Action Man, went one step further when he showed off his latest birthday present: a rare two-and-a-half-month-old Siberian tiger.

The Russian prime minister, who turned 56 on Tuesday, was given the tiger as a present. Yesterday he posed with the animal at his dacha outside Moscow, stroking her affectionately. "It's the most original present of my life," he told Russian TV. Putin refused to say who had given him the female tiger, which is to be called either Mashenko or Milashka.


Enjoy the Russian Press Show,

Bp

[via Babs, photo credit in linked article]
at 1:11 PM
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