Don't tease the cat. You'll just get scratched!

[Myranda_Rose]

Ah - no, what I want is a small tiger. Not a baby or young tiger (well, ok, they'd be good too), but specifically a miniature tiger. About the size of an old English sheepdog, fer instance. Also with a less bitey nature.

You get miniature huskies and miniature pigs... so if someone isolated the gene for pigmy-manufacturing you could make AWESOME animals... miniature elephants would be cool.

Pigmy tigers might still be bitey... so perhaps you need to find the bitey genes and tone them down...

I could so make a fortune as some sort of pet-shop eugenicist ... all I need is a science lab, enough money to become a geneticist (I'm sure universities teach morally ambiguous stuff right?!) ... Ooh! Kickstarter!

[SeriousCat]

a miniature tiger - with four asses!!!

[Myranda_Rose]

a miniature tiger - with four asses!!!

It's going on the list!

Ooh! I've got a lab coat somewhere, and I can wear my hair up high and tight with thick rimmed glasses, look like a proper evil scientist type lady...

This is an awesome idea with NO drawbacks - even failures could lead to some sort of zombie-tiger apocalypse which would be awesome!

So, which universities would best suit mad-scientist training?

[jalapeno]

how about a spyrogyra? its a bit stripy and quite small but could be biteyer

I'd quite fancy letting a Tiger loose on Spyro Gyra

[Myranda_Rose]

I'd quite fancy letting a Tiger loose on Spirograph

This is madness! Did not Confucius say "Let not your tigers draw a spirally picture!" - well he probably said it in Chinese, but wise words... we all know what will happen, and such things are not to be trifled with!

[jalapeno]

This is madness! Did not Confucius say "Let not your tigers draw a spirally picture!" - well he probably said it in Chinese, but wise words... we all know what will happen, and such things are not to be trifled with!

OK, you asked for it !!!!!!!!

[ICBM]

I would also highly recommend considering a Serval. As well as satisfying the small, stripey-spotty yet still bitey criteria, they can do huge standing vertical leaps, handy for silencing hecklers!

Impressive for such a small cat... it looks quite bitey too.

But for silencing hecklers, there's no substitute for the real thing.

Tiger. Nothing else quite comes close.

[jalapeno]

indeed.

Amazing that the Elephant didn't freak and throw them off !