Thinking of taking your pet cheetah for a stroll? You could face an $8 million fine
Updated 23 May 2021
May 23, 2021 00:39
JEDDAH: Whatever happened to taking your children to a pet shop to buy a small fish or canary as a pet? It seems those days are over, with a video of a young girl in Saudi Arabia taking her pet cheetah for a stroll.
The footage, which shows a girl aged about 10 struggling to control the big cat after letting it out of a car, sparked outrage and calls for action on social media.
To add to the confusion, the pet’s owner deliberately shared the video in defiance of National Center for Wildlife warnings against keeping wild animals, often referred to as exotic pets.
Celebrities including Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Dom Joly tonight furiously denounced actor s union Equity after it openly backed Saturday s pro-Palestine demo in which protesters brandished appalling anti-Semitic placards designed to stoke up religious hate .
In a statement released on Thursday ahead of the massive rally in London, General Secretary Paul Fleming and President Maureen Beattie condemned the Israeli actions in the Middle East and called on union members to support Palestinian comrades and join the march.
But the Trafalgar Square demo has been slammed by MPs and campaigners after protesters draped in Palestinian flags were photographed waving signs which compared Israel to Nazi Germany and claimed that premier Benjamin Netanyahu surpasses Hitler in barbarism .
Some Palestinians living in the Strip say not everyone there supports the terror group that has controlled the enclave since 2007, say they are losing hope after seeing all reconstruction efforts after 2014 war reduced again to ruins