Text Box: “We get calls from people who have acquired an animal - it may be a wolf or a big cat or maybe even other animals, like monkeys - and they don’t know what to do with them,” said Spence Conley, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “When the animals are puppies or cubs, they are wonderful and cuddly, but they are not trainable. And the next thing you know, the animal is jumping on your table to eat your turkey.”

 

There have been at least 7 people killed and 31 people injured by tigers in the United States since 1998, according to Phillip Nyhus, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

Several of those attacks have been in Texas, where pet tigers recently killed a 10 year old girl and bit off the right arm of a 4 year old boy.

“We’re seeing more of these pop up around the country, but there’s really no comprehensive approach to regulate what people have in their homes,” said Craig Hoover, of the World Wildlife Fund.

“The problem is getting out of hand” says Pat Craig, the sanctuary’s Executive Director , “as people are beginning to take these animals out into the country side and let them go - just like people have done with dogs and cats for many years - only now, these animals can end up killing someone!”
Text Box: Tigers are popular—so popular that there are more privately owned tigers in the United States than remain in the wild around the rest of the world, according to animal rights organizations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has even had to print a special public document titled “Large Wild and Exotic Cats Make Dangerous Pets,” showing a picture of a full-grown tiger on the cover.

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Text Box: Though we come from deep forests, from the edges of deserts, from snowy mountain ranges, from dense wet jungles, we are now part of your community. Who are we? We’re the cast-off, unwanted wild creatures whom man brought to civilization, bred and profited from, and no longer has use for… We are CAPTIVE WILDLIFE… Lions, Tigers, Jaguars, Leopards, Mountain Lions, Bears and other Wild Species. We number in the thousands, and we are starving, cast off, abused, abandoned, exploited, confined in tiny cages, illegally kept and traded, and bred for profit - not Love Just How Big Is This Problem? There are over 30,000 large carnivores being kept privately in the United States today (which means they are OUTSIDE the Zoo System! ) Approximately 15,000 of them are tigers (which is far more tigers than remain in the wild!) Each day, dozens of these animals become homeless or abandoned (and face euthanasia if authorities can’t place them in properly licensed Facilities) How Dangerous is this Problem? What can be done to Help this Problem? * Support A Wildlife Sanctuary (they are the only place these animals can go to) * Get Educated about this Crisis and learn how to be Effective (be part of the solution… become proactive in your area and spread the word on Captive Wildlife) * Support Legislation that will make it illegal to own or breed Wildlife