Ramon's Comments
From what I have heard from visitors to that place is that the tigers only get fed vegetarian food (!). This takes away their natural energy boosts and therefore they can be patted by anybody (in exchange for money for the Buddhist caretakers of course...).
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
If you want to do this jump yourself, know that after the jump you'll be hanging upside down for quite a while before somebody comes down to turn your around and take you up again :-)