Mike's caretakers are two LSU veterinarian students who keep their roles for two years, Guttner said. They pick up the ...

But he isn’t put in a cage and wheeled onto the field as Omar was. Previous generations of Mike the Tiger mascots were even dragged to away games and subjected to pranks that included being ...

After a few minutes, the cage was slowly driven off the field ... away from this and instead keeps its current live tiger mascot named Mike VII in a 15,000-square-foot enclosure on campus.