Giving Thanks
As it turns out, when our page hits jumped from the typical few hundred to nearly 10,000 on Thanksgiving Day, the rest of the graph was dwarfed.
THE ADVOCATES ARE COMING! THE ADVOCATES ARE COMING!
Visitors are coming in droves to support Tony, a caged tiger who has paced for 10 years at Louisiana’s Tiger Truck Stop amid inescapable diesel fumes, flood lights, engine noise and customers’ taunts. Although Big Cat Rescue of Tampa, FL offered Tony a naturalized and enriched refuge to peacefully live out his days, Tony’s owner, Michael Sandlin, refuses to give him up.
This is where Tony lives now as opposed to what life could be at Big Cat Rescue.
To help Tony:
Send a Letter (using Big Cat Rescue’s one-step form) urging the USDA, Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife Service and more to end to the trade in tigers in private hands.
Sign the Change.org Petition (closing December 1) calling for the denial of Micheal Sandlin’s permit.
Share Tony’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube sites.
Tony is a 12 year old Siberian/Bengal tiger used as a roadside attraction at Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete Louisiana. Tony’s owner, Michael Sandlin bought, sold, bred, and exhibited tigers for over 20 years. In 2003, because of violations Mr. Sandlin and the USDA made an agreement {after Sandlin threatened a lawsuit} where 3 of the 4 tigers he owned, Toby, Khan and Rainbow, were sent to Tiger Haven in Kingston TN. The USDA reduced the fines and allowed Mr. Sandlin to keep one tiger, Tony.
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