Giving Thanks
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.
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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