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Review of documentary "The Tiger Next Door"
Dispatches from Hot Docs: Thelonious Jazz to Pet Tigers by Monika BartyzelMay 15th 2009 // 8:02PM The Tiger Next Door In order to capture the seriously unregulated world of big cats, director Camilla Calamandrei was lucky to happen upon a former meth addict and big cat keeper as the government strives to stop his operation…
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Breeding Kills
Breeding Tigers in the U.S. Kills Tigers in the Wild Asking how that can be? Here is how. The private ownership of tigers in the U.S. negatively impacts conservation in a number of ways: Negative conservation message. The primary driver of breeding tigers in the U.S. is the need for a constant supply of tiger…
Wildlife Waystation
Big Cat Rescuers Are on The Way to the Sanctuary with Precious California Cargo! September 12, 2019 A team of Big Cat Rescuers led by Big Cat Rescue President Jamie Veronica has traveled all the way to California to rescue four exotic cats from the now-shuttered Wildlife Waystation sanctuary. The team flew to California, rented…
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Bearing Witness When It Is Unbearable
I was up most of the night after seeing the image at the bottom of this page, so stop at the big Red Warning label below if you don’t want to see something you can never un-see. I leave a lot of room after the warning so you won’t accidentally see that awful image, so…
How to Deter Exotic Pet Purchases
How to Deter Exotic Pet Purchases Our Director of Outreach Jennifer Leon sent me the following: Helena, my former intern, shared the attached paper with me. It’s an interesting study. The findings indicated that informing potential exotic pet purchasers about zoonotic disease risk and the potential illegality of owning said animal decreased interest in owning…
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The Tigers Next Door
Sharon Guynup’s article, The Tigers Next Door, in the 12.2019 issue of National Geographic is so well researched, documented and written that Carole wants everyone to read it. The images by her partner, Steve Winter, show tigers in places where you might never expect them to be. We want you to have a hard copy…