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Tigers in Times Square "Is that legal?" Dennis, from Brooklyn, asked. He was standing on a traffic triangle in the middle of

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问题    Tigers in Times Square
   "Is that legal?" Dennis, from Brooklyn, asked. He was standing on a traffic triangle in the middle of Times Square, next to a policeman. It was just past noon. In front of them, two nearly naked women were kneeling in a pair of small metal cages, holding signs that read, " Wild Animals Don’t Belong Behind Bars. " As it happens, cops in Shreveport, Louisiana, encountered a similar scenario last spring and concluded that no, it was not legal to impersonate an animal while nearly naked. But in Times Square, even post-Giuliani, traffic flow trumps decency, and the officer’s answer to Dennis was a blithe command: "Keep it moving, please!"
   The women — Kayla Worden, tall and blond, and Brandi Valladolid, a petite brunette — were made up to look like tigers, or the nearly naked human version of tigers, which requires body paint, a bikini bottom, Mickey Mouse ears, a brown nose, and drawn-on whiskers, but no fur. Fur might have helped, given that the temperature was below forty and rain was pouring down. But fur was out of the question, since this stunt was staged by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to protest the Ringing Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which had come to town that day. ("We’d rather bare skin than wear skin" is a PETA slogan. ) Betsy Thomson, a PETA volunteer, held an umbrella over Valladolid’s cage and said, "All living things have a right to live without being harmed, tortured, and violated. " Beneath her, Valladolid was squirming and shivering. "I’m, like, soaking right now," she said. Dennis, meanwhile, was on his cell phone: "Yo, they got some crazy shit back here. Two naked ladies in cages, man. "
   A tourist from Philadelphia, in town to see "Phantom of the Opera" , stepped up to take a photograph. " You know, looking through this wire, this is how circus animals see the world," Worden said.
   Down at Madison Square Garden, the real Ringing Brothers tigers were warm and dry, asleep in their cages. "Some of them won’t get up until one or two in the afternoon," Sara Houcke, a trainer and seventh-generation circus performer, said. "And I’ll be, like, ’My God, how can you sleep so long?’ It’s a known fact that cats sleep twenty hours a day. " Houcke is tall and blond, like Worden, but when she’s in a cage, tending to her tigers, she wears jeans and a T-shirt (which may or may not reveal her navel ring). She feeds them by hand: raw beef, whole chickens, and horse meat.
   Houcke’s circus routine doesn’t involve nudity, but is not without its own primitive appeal. "All my tricks are based on natural behaviors and instincts from the wild," she said. Houcke performs, alongside nine Bengal cats, as Sara the Tiger Whisperer. She is fluent not only in English, French, and German but also in " wuffling" , her own form of tigerspeak. The relationship she has with her cats "is the most amazing thing I’ve ever, ever experienced" , she said. "It’s not that I go up there and I force them and say, ’ You need to lick my face or you need to kiss my face. ’ But if a tiger wants to put its head on my shoulder and, you know, cuddle up to me..." Houcke will even stick her head inside a tiger’s mouth, if that’s what it wants. "I have more patience with my animals than I do with humans," she said. "My patience level for humans isn’t very high. "
   Up in Times Square, the PETA tigers were released from their cages, after forty-five minutes of cold rain. (The plan had called for an hour, but, as Worden explained, "I was freezing my ass off. ") Volunteers wrapped the women in bathrobes and lugged away their cages. "This was nothing compared to a lifetime of captivity," Valladolid said.
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