Show Me Tigers May 18, 2017 – Another clip shows the tigers in a ring during a training session. One glances over at the trainer and, seeing the whip in his hand, hurries away, terrified. These scenes appear to be business as usual for ShowMe Tigers, a traveling tiger act run by Ryan Easley that performs with…
Stephanie Taunton Hesperia Zoo December 2017. Based on the public information reported below, Hesperia Zoo appears to have repeatedly and continually shown contempt for the law, animal welfare, and public safety. Like some other facilities that we view as exploiting wild cats, Stephanie Taunton’s Hesperia Zoo has changed its name and used multiple names, which…
Jim Clubb’s Heythrop Zoological Gardens (d.b.a. “Amazing Animals”) “Amazing Animals” is the largest privately-owned collection of exotic animals in the UK, and one of the country’s only licensed providers of exotic wildlife for commercials, TV, movies, and advertisements. Their facility has the nice-sounding name of “Heythrop Zoological Gardens” but, except for six “open days” per…
Serenity Springs Wildlife Center FKA Big Cats of Serenity Springs The first time I remembered hearing of Nick and Karen Sculac and Big Cats of Serenity Springs was probably in 2003 when Joan Byron-Marasek said she was going to avoid confiscation of her tigers in NJ by taking them to Colorado, where she would eventually…
Zerbini Family Circus I swear, most of the animal abusing circuses are all related or inbred. The Zerbini’s apparently live in FL and MO and elsewhere. On Facebook in 2016 Julian and Darinka Zerbini (married) claim to live in Myakka City, FL, but when they applied for a FWC license in FL they listed their…