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How the Big Cat Public Safety Act affects a Melrose animal facility

BCR Staff by BCR Staff
March 17, 2023
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-The potential challenges that a Melrose animal facility may face as a result of the Big Cat Public Safety Act

Carl Bovard, owner of Single Vision, calls his establishment an animal sanctuary. Others regard it as a roadside zoo.

Located in Melrose, Florida, at the end of a long dirt road, the 10-acre facility is home to about 50 exotic species.

Carl Bovard kneels next to a pair of Florida panthers in their cage. (Derrah Getter/WUFT News)

Controversy arose after several pictures and videos of visitors coming in close contact with lion cubs and baby bears surfaced online.

“Unfortunately, there are hundreds of roadside zoos just like this all over the USA with these sort of want to be Tiger Kings,” Willow Hecht said, a PETA captive wildlife specialist.

He disagrees with people like those in the Netflix documentary series, Bovard said.

“A few people in this business ruined it for everyone,” he said.

Andre Bell with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said inspectors can’t elaborate past what is already written in their reports. Bovard’s facility faced at least 42 incidents dating back to 2014, according to USDA inspection reports. Some of these penalties include a tiger with a vitamin A deficiency that was being fed a non-USDA approved diet, a panther enclosure that had been clawed by the cats, which created splinters and a raised nail head, and visitors being allowed to have direct contact with a full-grown bobcat.

“These penalties are reserved for the worst animal welfare offenders in the country,” Hecht said.

David Perle, PETA media divisions manager, said the animal advocacy organization filed its most recent complaint to the USDA against Single Vision last month.

After President Joe Biden signed the Big Cat Public Safety Act into law in December 2022, Bovard said it threw a “big wrench” in his plan to help keep endangered species from going extinct.

“Advocates and I guess all the morons that passed this law will just say that we don’t need private ownership to keep the species alive,” he said.

 

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