On April 15, gift baskets greeted two tigers, Apache and Nitro, as they arrived at the Carnivore Preservation Trust in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The baskets were full of “big cat goodies” like toys and catnip. The male tigers were recently rescued from a junkyard in Kansas, and the gift baskets were intended to help the tigers acclimate during their first days in quarantine.

Action to free the tigers was first taken in May 2008 when a citizen alerted PETA about seeing lions and tigers in a junkyard. PETA then sent exotic animal experts to the site where they determined the environment was unhealthy and unsafe for the animals. After another incident in February 2009, the Carnivore Preservation Trust agreed to take the tigers, and the lions were sent to the Detroit Zoo.

Posted on April 20th, 2009 by admin
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