• February 14, 2012

America’s favorite frienemy Decepticon, Vladimir Putin, was given this wild monster, a “tigress cub,” for his 56th birthday. He “was shown stroking the two- month-old tigress at a meeting with Russian journalists at his residence outside Moscow.” Rowr…?? The gift-givers thought it would be hilarious — a great party joke! — given Putin’s tendency to shoot tigers. Russian irony! Very dark! [Bloomberg]

{ 93 comments }

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Man, this just makes me sad. Poor tiger. (Not that there is lots of habitat left for it to frolic…but still)

mattbolt October 10, 2008 at 3:08 pm

For fuck’s sake, Chillbilly Palin, weren’t you supposed to be looking out for those dastardly Russians across the river so that their super-villains don’t acquire one of nature’s most deadly predators

2goats October 10, 2008 at 3:08 pm

wait, doesn’t he already have the rhythmic gymnast?

Reefpilot October 10, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Look at the hot russian bear mama in the background. Damn, she can put me into a leg-lock chokehold hibernation any day of the week.

Tra October 10, 2008 at 3:09 pm

He concluded the meeting by feeding the journalists, one by one, to the tiger.

paigow October 10, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Putin gets to be more and more like a Bond villian every day.

Whiskeybaby October 10, 2008 at 3:10 pm

It looks so very frightened of him

Terry October 10, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Is Putin gonna put a frickin laser beam on that tiger’s head?

TGY October 10, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Bite him, Simba!

mattbolt October 10, 2008 at 3:11 pm

[re=129766]Reefpilot[/re]: Dude, no. It’s a Russian girl. If you were to graph their attractiveness vs. their age, the point after they turn 30 would kind of look like a graph of the Dow Jones after hitting October

SayItWithWookies October 10, 2008 at 3:12 pm

[re=129771]paigow[/re]: The Evil Overlord package from Neiman-Marcus — it’s what to get for the dictator who has everything.

nurple October 10, 2008 at 3:12 pm

That tiger was vernalized from a tabby kitten.

Too Lazy To Sign In October 10, 2008 at 3:13 pm

Putin has now become one step closer to becoming a James Bond Vilian.

Russian? Check
Trillions of “Petrodollars”? Check
Pet Tiger? Check

Now he just needs a hovercar. Or a submarine. Or a hoversubmarine.

jagorev October 10, 2008 at 3:13 pm

What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a tigress? Well, one of them eats human babies for sustenance, and the other one is a tigress.

dano October 10, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Fuck the Tiger, look at that bitchin’ suede jacket that Putin is wearing. Dude is rocking the 1989 look!

Worlds End October 10, 2008 at 3:14 pm

He should raise it to do his bidding. I also have to say that thing looks beautiful.

mattbolt October 10, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Insane Russian Despot Putin acquires tiger, later acquires TIGER UPPERCUUUT by hitting down, forward, down-forward + PUNCH

shortsshortsshorts October 10, 2008 at 3:15 pm

MMMM DIN din’s gonna be gooood tonight.

magic titty October 10, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Did they really need a tiger print bed for the tiger? Russians…so tacky…

And why is that Russian madame kneeling in the background?
What did she know, and when did she know it?

Worlds End October 10, 2008 at 3:16 pm

[re=129784]Too Lazy To Sign In[/re]: hoversubmarine….. interesting

freakishlystrong October 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm

Seriously, what the fuck is he gonna DO with that little tiger??!

pondscum October 10, 2008 at 3:18 pm

The tiger is in a tiger-print cat bed. That’s just wrong on so many levels.

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 3:18 pm

[re=129765]2goats[/re]: We don’t want to know what goes on behind the closed bedchamber doors of the Pooty Poot. It might well involve BOTH the gymnast and the tiger.

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 3:19 pm

[re=129793]magic titty[/re]: [re=129799]pondscum[/re]: totally agree–first thing I thought of!

jagorev October 10, 2008 at 3:20 pm

[re=129784]Too Lazy To Sign In[/re]: Well, now that all the oligarchs have lost all of their stock market money, he could maybe repossess a gigantic super-yacht? Bonus – some of them come with their own private submarine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(yacht)

magic titty October 10, 2008 at 3:20 pm

[re=129784]Too Lazy To Sign In[/re]: Haha – you don’t think he has a submarine? Silly…
[re=129787]dano[/re]: You’re obviously not a member, dawg…

Kwame' October 10, 2008 at 3:21 pm

It’s like a “Members Only” meets “American Apparel” ad.

Hedley Lamar October 10, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Siegfried and Putin. Much more butch than Roy.

Scarab October 10, 2008 at 3:25 pm

WTF, I was arrested for stroking my tigress in public.

tunamelt October 10, 2008 at 3:25 pm

[re=129798]freakishlystrong[/re]: Wrestle it, bare chested.

Politicalchef October 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm

You can’t be an evil mastermind without an exotic pet to lazily scratch as you plan the end of the world. . .

I mean, he has all the other parts, why not this one?

ABitOfACommunist October 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm

is anyone else watching the dow? this shit is crazy!

friendlynerd October 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Aw, just like Madonna! *singing* Who’s That Prime Minister?

Worlds End October 10, 2008 at 3:27 pm

[re=129798]freakishlystrong[/re]: Giving it to a zoo.

mattbolt October 10, 2008 at 3:27 pm

How much did Pravda or whoever photoshop this photo? That head clearly doesn’t belong on that body, the tiger’s head’s strangely in-focus compared to his body, it’s like this is a composite shot of 4 different photos

Sussemilch October 10, 2008 at 3:27 pm

[re=129771]paigow[/re]: *rofl* truth

Worlds End October 10, 2008 at 3:27 pm

[re=129817]ABitOfACommunist[/re]: Yeah i just gave up caring.

emmbob October 10, 2008 at 3:28 pm

He secretly wants to have a swanky Las Vegas show.

mr.november October 10, 2008 at 3:29 pm

You want another Tiger, Vlad? I’ll give you Dontrelle Willis.

HuskyMescan October 10, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Awwwww! those things are soooo cute before they grow up and disembowel you.

Tra October 10, 2008 at 3:33 pm

I’m just trying to figure out what he’s doing with his hand. “And this is how many fingers Dmitri had left after he unwrapped the gift box for me! Oh, how we laughed.”

Itsjustme October 10, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Now when the Palin’s are sitting on their front porch having their morning meth, Sarah can sing to baby Trig. Lions, and Tigers and Bears, oh my! Cause she can see Russia!

Worlds End October 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm

[re=129802]jagorev[/re]: Did you look up the specs of the yacht. It is believed to cost Abramovich around $300 million and will be the world’s third largest yacht with at least two swimming pools, two helipads, several on board tenders and a submarine. For security, it will be fitted with motion sensors and a special missile-detection system. That is fucking insane.

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 3:39 pm

OK, this really calls for some Monty Python: “A tiger? In Africa??”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p629R-whGlM

AnnieGetYourFun October 10, 2008 at 3:39 pm

I know that Putin can’t help but look evil, but srsly, he is going to eat that cub for breakfast, isn’t he?

S.Luggo October 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm

[re=129798]freakishlystrong[/re]: The article says that Putee will be sending it to a zoo. But before that, Vladimir will let kitty spend a day in Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s prison cell, where it will get to play with the former Yukos chairman’s head as if it were a ball of yarn.

btwbfdimho October 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm

[re=129771]paigow[/re]: and look the way the tigress goes down on her knees, and that guy behind playing with his pants. Priceless.

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 3:42 pm

[re=129817]ABitOfACommunist[/re]: holy shit–it was up 265, then 130, then 87, now it is down 109.

SOMEBODY is making money,

freakishlystrong October 10, 2008 at 3:42 pm

[re=129813]tunamelt[/re]: Then I hope he waits until she’s bigger…clawed.

StripesAndPlaids October 10, 2008 at 3:42 pm

[re=129799]pondscum[/re]: Then I suppose it makes my human skin sheets look kind of tacky too.

shortsshortsshorts October 10, 2008 at 3:42 pm

He will surely declaw it, just like he did to Georgia.

Itsjustme October 10, 2008 at 3:42 pm

[re=129844]btwbfdimho[/re]: Is that Drew Barrymore?

shortsshortsshorts October 10, 2008 at 3:44 pm

OMG the dow is up 12 points right now. We are all FAT CATS again.

arksi October 10, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Ah, I see Putin’s displaying the Russian version of the “shocker.” I can only imagine what happened next.

Botswana Meat Commission FC October 10, 2008 at 3:45 pm

This is like every neighborhood drug dealer’s favorite birthday present.

MoodProcessor October 10, 2008 at 3:46 pm

[re=129798]freakishlystrong[/re]: Clone it. Then drops thousands of tigers on Alaska as the first wave of assault.

S.Luggo October 10, 2008 at 3:48 pm

[re=129841]Doglessliberal[/re]: “Just sew it back on.” I believe that’s what Bush said to Paulson.

WadISay October 10, 2008 at 3:50 pm

When the tiger looks in Vlad’s eyes, it will see his soul. Right next to that tasty, red, throbbing thingy.

S.Luggo October 10, 2008 at 3:50 pm

[re=129852]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Break out the “Night Train”, dammit.

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 3:50 pm

[re=129859]S.Luggo[/re]: exactly

S.Luggo October 10, 2008 at 3:51 pm

[re=129772]Whiskeybaby[/re]: The woman in the background?

Miller October 10, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Putin, for fuck’s sake, hollow out a mountain, build a lair and start terrorizing the Pacific Rim already.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

obfuscator October 10, 2008 at 3:53 pm

“Da! Is… how you say… ‘kickass’ birthday present… “

DieOnTheTurnpike October 10, 2008 at 3:55 pm

[re=129789]mattbolt[/re]: Oh sweet! Street Fighter II is relevant again.

Manchowder October 10, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Putin is better than Bush in every imaginable way.

Bush tries to take Iraq, gets nothing.
Putin takes the North Pole, and 2 separatist provinces in Georgia with almost no fighting.

Bush stops fucking his wife, as you can tell by the sorrowful look in her eyes.
Putin gets a 24 year old rhythmic gymnast, and makes her a cabinet minister.

Bush is terrified of horses.
Putin shoots, and pets tigers.

JadedDIssonance October 10, 2008 at 4:05 pm

“My humblest apologies, Kim Jong Il, I cannot attend your World Enders fundraising party, I will be staying in, taming the tiger, if you know what I mean…”

S.Luggo October 10, 2008 at 4:06 pm

[re=129893]Manchowder[/re]:
Putin can see Alaska from his front porch.
Bush can’t find Alaska on a map of Alaska.

Etc.

Kingbee October 10, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Better to stroke a 22 year-old tigress, if memory serves.

boredatwork October 10, 2008 at 4:20 pm

I see he’s been on the Red Phone with Cindy McCain having high-level discussions about bestial finger-fucking techniques. Forget the “hot war” option, sic PETA on them Russky Neighbors of Palin. WIN.

nurple October 10, 2008 at 4:28 pm

I guess better a sober theiving kleptocracy (Putin) to a drunken theiving kleptocracy (Yeltsin).

sarcasticusername October 10, 2008 at 4:35 pm

that’s kind of cool, i knew someone who had a pet lion once (i’m from that scary place called africa though i’m not of the luo variety, we all have wild animals as pets), but a tiger is way cooler. i hate to say it but vlad wins this round of awesome, what’s bush going to do to top him? that pile of elephant dung al gore got him last year just won’t cut it.

run_said_ran October 10, 2008 at 4:35 pm

It could just be the unpatriotic whore in me … but uh … do any other ladies think Putin could definitely be a PILF? The best sex is with frienemies.

Doglessliberal October 10, 2008 at 4:38 pm

[re=129960]run_said_ran[/re]: eh, too weasely faced for me, but I can see the appeal.

user-of-owls October 10, 2008 at 4:38 pm

I think we’re all missing out on a potential solution to several of our ongoing problems. All we need to do is get Putin replaced by another great Russian, Vladimir Zhirinovsky:

Zhirinovsky has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become “a great place to put the Ukrainians”)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky

Birds, stones, etc.

dcgrrl October 10, 2008 at 4:43 pm

[re=129855]Botswana Meat Commission FC[/re]: Yes, and Putin is flashing the neighborhood drug dealer gang sign that says, “Sarah, when John loses that election, you can just hop the creek and come be VP with me and my cool kitty.”

run_said_ran October 10, 2008 at 4:53 pm

[re=129964]Doglessliberal[/re]:

I’m penning my ‘Letter to Penthouse’ now …

TGY October 10, 2008 at 4:58 pm

[re=129793]magic titty[/re]: Soviet Russia was the Age of Tacky.

The Station Manager October 10, 2008 at 4:58 pm

That picture is straight pimp. Putin was later spotted Crip Walking in the hallway.

Beetletheknee October 10, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Am I remembering correctly that John Oliver (Daily Show) specifically listed tiger petters as a subtype of stupid people earlier this week?

TGY October 10, 2008 at 5:01 pm

[re=129798]freakishlystrong[/re]: Most likely finish it off with a bullet to the back of the neck after it makes a voluntary confession of felinitude in the Lubyanka.

hoboking October 10, 2008 at 5:03 pm

If Bush were to look into Putin’s tiger’s eyes what would he see?
What about if McCain were doing the looking?

TGY October 10, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Wait…is he smiling? Is there a smile forming in the Putin-cheek-muscles? His face is in danger of cracking.

InKnockYouUs October 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Oh boy, another Putin post! Did anyone read the link about him shooting the tiger? I liked this part: “Afterwards, Putin was said to have stroked the animal’s cheek, adding: “She’ll remember us.”

wtf_files October 10, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Putin is a pimp. Check him out, flashing his old KGB gang sign! What? Respect, comrades!

Lee Atwater October 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm

[re=129960]run_said_ran[/re]: Oh, I totally have a thing for Vladimir Putin, even though he is a ruthless autocrat and will destroy us all. I guess every woman likes a man with a big nuclear arsenal. On the minus side, the tigers, shirtless fishing, and judo suggest that he’s clearly overcompensating for something.

user-of-owls October 10, 2008 at 5:46 pm

[re=130013]TGY[/re]: Goddamn feline travelers.

junkscience October 10, 2008 at 7:57 pm

What’s up with that chick squatting in the background.

rocktonsammy October 10, 2008 at 9:38 pm

Putin kicks f#cking ass!!! Suck it USA!!

Darkness October 10, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Did ANY of you read the article. He shot the tiger with a tranquilizer dart. It’s a preservation program. Tracking devices, health checks, that sort of thing. Not that there probably isn’t an ego boost in there for the guy… but still. Geesh. The guardian can be forgiven for the misleading link because they are pretend news losers, but not sure why wonkette is sinking to the guardian’s level.

sanantonerose October 11, 2008 at 1:02 am

[re=129787]dano[/re]: Yep. He and Amadinemembersonlyjacketijad are two wild and crazy guys lookin’ for the foxes.

sanantonerose October 11, 2008 at 1:03 am

[re=130011]Beetletheknee[/re]: You are correct.

sanantonerose October 11, 2008 at 1:05 am

OH, what the hell. I’d hit it. You just gotta know that being ex-KGB means he has well-trained hands.

Jukesgrrl October 11, 2008 at 2:13 am

And they’re training it to kill the top three investigative reporters of his choice.

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