
This means that tigers have to choose their targets well, and hunt efficiently, if they want to survive. Researchers estimate that only one out of every ten or twenty hunts results in a meal.

This is, of course, beneficial when stalking prey. However, drop that pattern in a stand of tall grasses, with partial sunlight dappling through the trees and that sleek cat becomes nearly invisible.

We add our black cat mascot, Casper, to every design we create. We handcraft this in our Wooster, Ohio workshop just 130 miles west of Pittsburgh where Mister Rogers' Neighborhood lived at WQED from 1968 through 2001.

Tiger has a four-year-old son, Daniel Tiger, who delights preschoolers and their families on the animated program Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, which debuted in 2012. But Daniel was the real Fred.” Today, Fred’s Daniel S. Originally, a bird was scripted to pop out of a cuckoo clock, but the night before, WQED station manager, Dorothy Daniel, gifted a striped tiger puppet to Fred.ĭuring the taping instead of the scripted bird, Fred used the striped tiger, which he named “Daniel” after the woman who gave him the puppet the night before.Īs Joanne Rogers, Fred’s wife, said, “He did all the voices. In 1954, Daniel Striped Tiger made his debut on “The Children’s Corner,” the first show that Fred Rogers produced. This is the story we printed on the back of Daniel S. Tiger, then our 3/4" thick wooden replica will sit perfectly on your desk, shelf, windowsill or mantle to remind you (and your children) of the shows and teaching of Mister Rogers. If you have memories of Mister Rogers and Daniel S.
