[Innovative]

I don't understand why zoos aren't able and willing to take the wild cats.

As the article says, there are problems, but then they aren't helping to place the cats into zoos.. just the opposite.

[Innovative]

Kittyping (large “kitties”)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The USDA criticizes Taft and his facility, but the federal agency also is engaged in business with him. Taft said dozens of the exotic cats living at his Clay County facility were placed there at the request of the USDA after the agency seized the animals and needed to find them homes.

The Fed is notorious for asking banks to take over troubled banks, then raiding and shutting down the acquiring bank for the sins of the bank they asked them to acquire.

[RightOnTheBorder]

“Can we survive all this?” Taft asked The Herald-Times. “We have no choice, because there’s no place else for these cats to go. There really isn’t. What’s the government going to do to hurt these cats more?”

I guess Mr. Taft hasn't been paying attention to his government. Of course they are going to hurt the cats. They are going to put him out of business and kill those animals.

[lee martell]

I don’t know a lot about the big cats, but I’ve always heard that lions and tigers require a lot of open space they cn call their own, especially the males. As the males gather more female lions for his group, perhaps that same need for marking territory will also increase. These animals are also very expensive to keep fed and healthy. They are probably encouraged to move around a little, exercise those joints. Elephants, the same way, they do love to eat, frequently and a lot.

One off topic item that got my attention was the story speaks of an Animal Control Officer, her name is Elizabeth Taylor. I’m sure she’s tired of park visitors making silly remarks about that. “I am NOT her! Okay?”.

[Hot Tabasco]

I don't understand why zoos aren't able and willing to take the wild cats.

Zoos are not corrals for animals, they are carefully constructed and managed "habitats" for each respective species.

As for big cats, you can't just rescue a tiger, or lion or leopard and put it in with an existing population because it would likely be killed.......

While they look warm and fuzzy like a cat, only bigger, they are wild and they will behave the way they have been wired to do if introduced into a zoo habitat........