The facility, also featured in Tiger King alongside Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park… Learn more here.animals are, now that the horrible abuser rots in Federal Prison. Retired boxer Mike Tyson said that he was "foolish" and "wrong" to have kept two tigers in his home in the 1990s. Super busy,” says Daniela Toledo Vargas, who visited with her husband on Saturday afternoon—the day the park resumed cub petting. I make no apologies for living my life to the fullest extent.

Watch how we helped the US Government take him down forever. “You don’t normally see us aligned” with PETA, he says, “but extreme times make for strange bedfellows.”The USDA has not responded to the petition, PETA spokesperson David Perle says.The crowds at Greater Wynnewood over the weekend suggest that She says she was surprised at just how many animals were there, many housed four or five in a cage. Tiger and "liger" cubs sit on grass at Myrtle Beach Safari in April 2019. “They didn’t tell us anything about coronavirus.”Unaccredited, roadside cub-petting facilities rarely have veterinarians on staff, Ashe says.

National Geographic revealed in December that many of these private facilities speed-breed their tigers (The zoo’s former owner, Joe Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic, is But now The Oklahoma zoo’s resumption of cub petting amid a pandemic raises new alarm bells for the big cats: Tigers are susceptible to COVID-19. 2020 National Geographic Partners, LLC.

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PETA couldn’t do it, the USDA couldn’t do it.

The staff she saw didn’t wear masks, nor did they ask visitors to wear gloves or masks.“They didn’t take any precautions,” says Toledo Vargas. “Given what we know about the risk of COVID-19 transmission between humans and felines, I think it’s reckless.”It’s unclear how many people came in contact with the baby tigers on Saturday. There’s even a street view option where you can see what it looks like from the road.Here’s a look at what the park looks like as you approach in your car, courtesy of Google Street View.When you drive up, there’s a wooden fence with Exotic Animal Park painted on the side.The zoo is now under new ownership and it’s open for visits. After you see the lurid story, come visit the zoo and see where it all took place. No zoo we could ever build will have the positive impact of taking out the nation’s largest tiger cub traffickers.Thank you all for your continued support. The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park has received global attention through its starring role in the recent Netflix series. Since we took over, the zoo has spent thousands upon thousands getting every animal the medical treatment and proper diets that greed robbed them of. The move comes after five tigers tested positive for COVID-19 in New York, raising concerns among experts that repeated handling by visitors puts cubs at heightened risk of contracting the virus.After a month’s hiatus, tiger cub petting at Joe Exotic’s former zoo is back—exposing cubs to not only the stress of hours of handling by humans, but also to the risk of contracting the coronavirus.Oklahoma’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, which was closed for about a month because of the state’s pandemic restrictions, was featured in the hit Netflix series “It was packed. All rights reserved Lauren and I are forging on, everyday to complete a new facility that can provide our animals with more space, far away from “The Curse of Joe Exotic. Park representatives did not respond to emails and messages for comment before publication; however, Lowe, the zoo’s owner, responded to National Geographic by email after the story published to say, “We aren’t doing cub encounters at this time.” He declined to provide further details.

Retired professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, who appears in the show saying he bought two tigers from Joe Exotic, said in an interview after the show's release that he had "never had any business dealings with him". It has exhausted the small fortune I once held, I even sold my Ferrari to help build our animals larger enclosures.

‘Tiger King’ zoo reopens to big crowds, threatening big cats with coronavirus

To get there, you’ll be passing by the Lexington Wildlife Management Area if you’re driving from Oklahoma City. We defy anyone to find a mistreated or neglected animal here. But those concerns completely vanished when I saw the segment on Doc Antle, Joe’s Messiah and role model. As a result of the show, multiple sportspeople who had previously owned exotic pets were questioned about their actions. “I was just kind of like, why do you need that many animals, you know?”