Jungle Safari AKA The Zoo Pat and Robert Engesser Jungle Safari (formerly known as Engesser’s Exotic Felines, Luce Enterprises, The Zoo, and Endangered Species, Inc.) is a privately-owned traveling petting zoo which spends 9 months of the year displaying big cats and their cubs in the parking lots of malls and shopping centers. Although it…
Dade City’s Wild Things has been sued by the USDA for mistreatment of cubs used in pay to play schemes, such as swimming with cubs.
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…
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…
Thailand’s Tiger Temple Probed for Links to Animal Trafficking Wall Street Journal–Jun 4, 2016 Until recently, the Tiger Temple drew visitors from around the world with the opportunity to pose for photographs with big cats or bottle-feed tiger … Thailand Tiger Temple operation ‘is completed’ BBC News–Jun 4, 2016 Thai ‘Tiger Temple‘: Five charged with possessing…