Articles Surrounding Joe Schreibvogel’s Threats to Kill Himself, Others and His Animals GW Exotic Animal Park in central Oklahoma has 200 tigers and more than 1,000 other animals. Its owner, Joe Schreibvogel, has been in the news many times for running a substandard zoo and allowing dangerous interactions between children and baby tigers. But Schreibvogel’s recent erratic behavior [...]
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Thai police seize tiger carcasses believed destined for China
BANGKOK — Thai police say they have seized the carcasses of tigers and other big cats believed to have been destined for consumption in China. Police Lt. Col. Theerapat Tharithai says a Thai man and a Vietnamese man were arrested Wednesday in a raid at a house in Bangkok’s suburbs. He says police had [...]
Columbus Zoo Blamed for Leopard’s Death
Columbus Zoo Blamed for Leopard’s Death POWELL — The federal government says the Columbus Zoo is to blame for the death of a leopard that survived last year’s Zanesville escape. The cat was killed while being transferred to a new cage at the zoo in January. A newly released U.S. Department of Agriculture [...]
Tiger Paw Exotic Rescue Center dumps big cats on other sanctuaries
ASHLAND — Even as Ohio lawmakers complete new rules for private ownership of exotic animals, Denise Flores, of Ashland, has moved forward with her plan to ship two more big cats out of the state. Tiger Paw Exotic Rescue Center’s youngest remaining tigers, Nora and Katie, 10 and 7, respectively, will depart to Wildcat [...]
Bengal tiger to be mated with two inbred white tigresses
Chennai: In a first such initiative in India to arrest the dwindling number of Bengal tigers, a Bengal tiger with be allowed to mate with two white tigresses to produce “strong yellow skinned offspring”. A separate enclave has been set up in the campus for Bengal tiger Vijay and the white tigresses Akansha and [...]
Mountain lion’s revenge
The mountain lion hunt that put California Fish and Game Commission President Daniel W. Richards in the center of a political firestorm has him in trouble again. The enforcement chief for the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission informed Richards on Thursday that he had violated the gift limits of the Political Reform Act when he [...]
Tejon Ranch Canned Hunting Ranches
Tejon Ranch has agreed to pay $136,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging hunters illegally killed at least eleven mountain lions in recent years. The suit and settlement end a nearly year long investigation into illegal hunting on the massive ranch, which stretches from the Grapevine to Arvin and beyond to Highway 58. The investigation was [...]
Point Defiance Zoo Breeding More Tigers for Life in Cages
The second of three tiger cubs born at the Honolulu Zoo in 2009 is scheduled to leave Honolulu to be bred with a female Sumatran tiger in Tacoma, Washington. Malosi, a male Sumatran tiger from Honolulu is scheduled to arrive at the Point Defiance Zoo on Wednesday to breed with the Tacoma zoo’s female. Point [...]
More Inbreeding to Make White Tigers in Gauhati India
The ONLY way to produce a tiger or lion with a white coat is through inbreeding brother to sister or father to daughter; generation after generation after generation. The kind of severe inbreeding that is required to produce the mutation of a white coat also causes a number of other defects in these big cats. [...]
