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Big cats featured in “Tiger King” sanctuary are moving to Arkansas
This man is on the Frankfurt Zoo, not Large Cat Rescue, however he is a tiger. You get the concept. Picture: Arne Dedert/image alliance by way of Getty Pictures
Thirty felines from Large Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida — the one owned by Carole Baskin from the smash Netflix documentary collection “Tiger King” — will likely be moved to the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs.
Particulars: The animals embrace tigers, bobcats and lynx and will likely be relocated to Arkansas as early as July. Turpentine is engaged on constructing new enclosures for the animals, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
Background: Carole and Howard Baskin are closing their animal sanctuary after 30 years.
- “We’ve all the time mentioned that our purpose was to ‘put ourselves out of enterprise,’ that means that there can be no large cats in want of rescue and no want for the sanctuary to exist,” they mentioned in a press release.
- The transfer comes after Congress in 2022 handed the Large Cat Public Security Act to ban cub petting — the place animals are bred to cost individuals for petting them — and holding large cats as pets, guidelines the Baskins’ activism supported.
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