by Karen Lauria in Animals in Captivity on May 11, 2021
On Sunday, May 9, 2021, a tiger was apparently loose in the front yard of a home in a residential neighborhood in Houston. Shortly afterwards, a man captured the tiger and drove away with the big cat in his truck. The man, who has since been apprehended by police, denies that he is the owner of the tiger, and the animal is currently unaccounted for.
Cruel Captivity
While much is still unknown about the tiger, a wild animal on the loose in a U.S. city is an all too familiar scenario. The tiger is likely a pet, one of several thousand big cats kept in captivity in the United States and forced into lives of extreme, unnatural confinement. Like most pet tigers, she was probably taken from her mother as a little cub – a deep trauma for mother and baby alike. Now an adult, she experiences frustration each day as the conditions of her life render her unable to live according to her natural instincts and needs. Her diet is probab
Howard told
The Mirror: If Joe were to come out and say: I now know what I did was wrong and I want to help. I would like to support passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act and stop this breeding. If he were to do that , Howard continued, it might position him in a positive way for a pardon. And frankly, I might be willing to go and urge at least a reduction in his sentence.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act prohibits the private possession of big cats including tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars and pumas.
Exotic has since said that would accept Baskin s offer.
Howard told the Mirror: If Joe were to come out and say, ‘I now know what I did was wrong and I want to help. I would like to support passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act and stop this breeding.’ If he were to do that , Howard continued, it might position him in a positive way for a pardon. And frankly, I might be willing to go and urge at least a reduction in his sentence.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act prohibits the private possession of big cats including tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars and pumas.
Exotic has since said that he is accepting Baskin s offer.