Jeff Landry confirmed his support on Tuesday of restarting the tradition of bringing Louisiana State University’s live tiger mascot onto the football field ahead of home games. For years, the school’s live mascot would ride through the stadium in a travel trailer “topped by the LSU cheerleaders” before home games, based on information about the mascot on the LSU Athletics’ webpage. Following the death of the school’s tiger, Mike VI, in 2016, LSU announced that future Mike the Tigers would no longer be brought onto the field. In the past, animal rights groups have called on LSU to stop keeping live tiger mascots. Louisiana is not the only school that is home to a live mascot.

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Persons: Jeff Landry, LSU’s, didn’t, Landry, “, ” Landry, ”, —, Mike VI, Mike, Mike VII —, Dan, University of Colorado’s Ralphie Organizations: —, Louisiana State, Tiger, University, Animals, LSU, PETA, Gov, Press, university’s School of Veterinary Medicine, LSU Athletics ’, Tigers, Yale, University of Texas, Longhorn, University of Colorado’s, Buffalo Locations: BATON ROUGE, La, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, U.S, Louisiana