Animal Wellness Action Leaders React to Court Order Directing Seizure of Tiger Cubs from Jeff Lowe’s Unlicensed “Tiger King Park” in Thackerville, Okla.
Animal Wellness Action Leaders React to Court Order Directing Seizure of Tiger Cubs from Jeff Lowe’s Unlicensed “Tiger King Park” in Thackerville, Okla.
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The U.S. House will introduce a bill to prohibit keeping big cats as pets and help protect public safety! The Big Cat Public Safety Act was passed during the last Congress in December, but we must keep fighting for stronger federal laws!
The bill was reintroduced on January 11 by Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The measure passed the House in December with a strong bipartisan majority.
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Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) said in an emailed statement, “We’ve closely investigated Joe Exotic and other big cat exploiters and documented the flagrant abuse and serious public safety hazards that characterize their cynical and tawdry operations. Not only are paying customers in danger interacting with wild animals, they are contrib
A big cat in captivity.
Today, Animal Wellness Action applauded Reps. Mike Quigley and Brian Fitzpatrick for reintroducing the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
Big cats are amazing, but best viewed at a distance in the wild or through a sound barrier at an accredited zoo.” Wayne Pacelle
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, January 11, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ Today, Animal Wellness Action and its affiliates applauded U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley, D-Ill. and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., for reintroducing the Big Cat Public Safety Act about one month after the House passed the measure by a commanding vote of 272 to 114 and putting it on a path toward enactment. Quigley and Fitzpatrick were joined by Reps. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., Mike Waltz, R-Fla., Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, and Steve Womack, R-Ark., as original cosponsors.
Born Free USA applauds yesterday’s reintroduction of the Big Cat Public Safety Act (H.R. 263) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reintroduced by Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), this bill would ban the private possession of big cat species, with exemptions for zoos, universities, and bona fide sanctuaries. The bill also bans direct public contact with big cats, removing a strong incentive to breed big cats unchecked for profit. In December 2020, this important legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, but was not taken up by the Senate before the end of the 116th Congress. Born Free USA calls on the newly gaveled-in 117th Congress to quickly pass the reintroduced bill.