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

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.

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 ...