Tiger Maulings Illustrate Need for Legislation Banning Dangerous Wild Animals in Private Hands
August 05, 2008
August 05, 2008
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 5 -- The Animal Protection Institute issued the following news release:
Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute (Born Free USA), a national animal advocacy organization, is calling on the Missouri legislature to ban the keeping of inherently dangerous wild animals as "pets" after two separate incidents in as many days involving tigers. In the first, a tiger escaped his enclosure and mauled a volunteer at Wesa-A-Geh-Ya, a roadside zoo . . .
Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute (Born Free USA), a national animal advocacy organization, is calling on the Missouri legislature to ban the keeping of inherently dangerous wild animals as "pets" after two separate incidents in as many days involving tigers. In the first, a tiger escaped his enclosure and mauled a volunteer at Wesa-A-Geh-Ya, a roadside zoo . . .