Nine exotic cats and two other wild animals were confiscated from a dilapidated Atchison, Kansas, property yesterday after authorities discovered that the animals had been abandoned in their enclosures without access to food or clean water. The Atchison County Sheriff's Office seized one tiger, two cougars, three bobcats, two lynx, a serval and two skunks under the state's Dangerous Regulated Animals Act and the animal cruelty code. The Humane Society of the United States, Big Cat Rescue, In-Sync Exotics and the Kansas City Zoo removed the animals from the property and transported them to sanctuaries around the country.
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Baby animals always draw a crowd! Tiger and lion cubs are often exhibited in malls and parking lots by people who breed and exploit these animals to make money...
The cubs are torn from their mothers soon after birth and are used as photo props and in petting booths for the paying public. Please...
Here are ten reasons to avoid the circus and visit a local sanctuary like Big Cat Rescue. Sign the pledge to be circus free by visiting nocircustigers.com.
This is Doug Terranova, who in our opinion is an exploiter and abuser of tigers. He operates a small traveling circus act with tigers that appears at fairs.
To get to these venues the tigers are transported for hours on end in cramped quarters in the trailer pictured here.
Their movement is lim...
