Glorious, isn't it?

Raising the walls of the grotto 16.4 feet, in order to meet the minimum guidelines of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the first phase of improving the SF Zoo's four big-cat grottos is complete. The tweaks were needed, as most of you know by now, after Siberian tiger Tatiana escaped and killed Carlos Sousa Jr. during the now infamous Christmas Day tiger attacks.

The second phase of the project, according to the Gate, is "scheduled for completion sometime in March, [which] includes replacing temporary fencing materials with stainless steel wire mesh and installing hot wire along the finger walls of the grottos." As of now, zoo officials aren't sure just when the tiger exhibit will reopen.

As seen in the graphic above (pulled from the LA Times), and because of last week's fatal attacks, tiger security improvement is needed. Soon. In 30 days, according to the Gate, SF Zoo will have a brand spanking new tiger-grotto security system. The architect who created the zoo's Grizzly Gulch exhibit, Sam Singer, will also now design the safer new tiger grotto. Although no details of the new tiger grotto designed have been released, we're sure "more safe" will be a bullet point or four.

In other tiger-related news: those damn brothers, Paul Dhaliwal and Kulbir Dhaliwal. Ugh. Ever since the attack, they have "maintained their silence" for some bizarre yet suspicious reason. The duo haven't even contacted the father of the boy who, if reports are accurate, saved their lives during Tatiana's attack. Seriously, what is their problem? Are they just vile human beings? Scared? Working on the movie deal rights?