Dear Des: I have been an ailurophile all my life. But the big cats in the zoos are very different. I saw the kids teasing a big cat, forget its name. That cat had her rump up against the bars, looking over her shoulder, taking aim.When one of the kids tried to poke her with a stick,there was an audible sound of a small amount of urine being ejected under considerable pressure, and that kid began to rub her eyes and scream. The odor alone would have been punishment enough.