He’s Still Around

[516 words] As I write this article, two days have passed since a tragedy occurred in our community. At a spot just one-half mile from where I sit in my office, a little four-year-old boy was visiting his uncle. While the family was taking group pictures in the house, the little boy sneaked out the back door and went to a cage made of cyclone fencing where his uncle kept a 400-pound Bengal tiger. The tiger had been declawed and was reported to be very gentle, but that afternoon had been filled with thunder and lightning, which may have agitated the big cat. At any rate, when the little boy stuck his arm through the fencing, the tiger bit it off above the elbow. Fortunately, surgeons at Hermann Hospital were able to reattach the arm in a nine-hour operation and hope that he will eventually regain much of his ability…