Below is the website announcement from Carolina Tiger Rescue:
http://www.carolinatigerrescue.org/events/2011/2011-08_WAO-rescue2.asp
Bringing Four More Tigers Home
Carolina Tiger hopes to rescue four more tigers from the Wild Animal Orphanage (WAO), a sanctuary that was forced to close its doors last fall. Now WAO faces bankruptcy and a court order threatening the lives of China, Kizmet, Suathe, and Kashmir. All four tigers came to WAO in 2003 from a New Jersey facility- a story they share with our Bali Tiger
Background Story: "The Lady and the Tigers", The New Yorker, 2/24/2002
An anonymous donor has stepped forward to donate $21,000 needed to build 3 new enclosures for the tigers. Carolina Tiger needs to raise an additional $10,000 for the cost of transport ($3500), medical exams ($2800), platforms ($1000), tubs ($1200), and enrichment/toys ($1000)From Carolina Tiger Rescue's Facebook page:
You can help rescue China, Kizmet, Suathe, and Kashmir by donating to the "Bring Them Home" campaign.
These four tigers at the Wild Animal Orphanage face a court ordered euthanization if they don't find a new home. Help us raise $10,000 to bring them home to Carolina Tiger by visiting http://www.carolinatigerrescue.org/events/2011/2011-08_WAO-rescue2.asp
Court order euthanization? What?? There is no document on file with the court to euthanize the cats if homes are not found right away. I guess this is one way to get people to donate funds—threaten to kill the animals unless money is donated. Make no mistake—if any of the cats were destroyed—it would not be euthanasia*—it would be murder.
Carolina Tiger Rescue
All 4 of these tigers share the same story as our own Bali, rescued from WAO last fall, but were originally from a seizre in New Jersey.
Sunday at 3:50pm · (8.14.11)
Carolina Tiger Rescue
April- we hope to get them transported in the next 2 weeks
Sunday at 3:57pm
Amy Godwin
How much more $$$ is needed to bring the 4 tigers to your sanctuary?
Yesterday at 2:09pm
Carolina Tiger Rescue
Amy, we've had about $1200 come in online- more may be on the way in the mail. The goal for the Bring Them Home campaign is $10,000 for the cost of transport ($3500), medical exams ($2800), platforms ($1000), tubs ($1200), and enrichment/toys ($1000)
Yesterday at 3:14pm
And now for the heartbreaking photographs of the tigers as they look right now:
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| Oh Lord, China looks so thin and sad. She's only 14 years old. Those eyes are so haunting. |
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| Kashmir looks upset. He's about 12 years old. |
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| Oh geez, the water is so filthy with scum floating on top of the water. Poor Kirin. She looks thin too. Kirin is about 15 years old. |
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| This is unbelievable... Look how thin Swathe looks now with his back bowed. Swathe is about 14 years old, but in this photo he looks much older. Look at all the excess skin under his body. Oh geez... |
I am so unbelieveably angry that the USDA does not see a problems with this situation! How can the WAO staff allow the cats to degrade to this point? On top of it all, Madras (18 years old) is not projected to goto either Carolina Tiger Rescue or Big Cat Rescue. I guess she's dead too.
No doubt the USDA approves all of this--all the animal deaths, the current conditions of the cats still at the WAO, and the condition of their pools--as no doubt all the "paperwork" is in order. This is totally unacceptable, by ANY standards.
I just pray that Carolina Tiger Rescue can save these cats before it's too late.
* Definition of euthanasia from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Animal euthanasia (from the Greek meaning "good death") is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.[1]
.[1]2000 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia
Later:
* Definition of euthanasia from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Animal euthanasia (from the Greek meaning "good death") is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.[1]
.[1]2000 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia
Later:
Carolina Tiger Rescue
Thank you Facebook fans! We have raised the $10,000 needed , thanks to your contributions and your efforts to share the story. There are still many details to work out- lining up medical exams, getting permits together for crossing state lines, setting up dates with transport- but China, Kizmet, Suathe, and Kashmir are on their way HOME! 8.26.11
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