AR-News: (US NY) Last 39 Tigers Are Moved From Unsafe Rescue Center

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

The New York Times
By CHRIS DIXON

Published: June 11, 2004


OLTON, Calif., June 10 - More than a year after 90 tigers were found dead and 
dozens more barely alive at an animal rescue center east of Los Angeles, the 
last group of survivors began a 340-mile trip on Thursday to a 10-acre 
sanctuary in San Andreas in the Sierra foothills.
The group of 39 tigers left cramped and dilapidated cages of the center, 
Tiger Rescue, at a former sewage plant in Colton, a small city in San Bernardino 
County.
The animals were found in April 2003 at Tiger Rescue and at the house of its 
owners, John Weinhart, 61, and his wife, Marla Smith, 48, in Glen Avon, a 
community 10 miles west of here in Riverside County. 
The State Fish and Game Department found the carcasses of 30 big cats strewn 
about the house, along with 58 dead cubs in a freezer, 11 starving tiger and 
leopard cubs and 2 alligators in a bathtub.


full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/national/11tigers.html?ex=1087531200&en=1ac4
a158743f2857&ei=5062 

********************************************************
For many more news items that Animalconcerns 
volunteers have entered on the site
click here > More Latest News Headlines.
Forum (discussion board), Events, E-Mail Lists, Jobs, and
Organizations!
To subscribe to AR-News, please visit www.AR-News.org

********************************************************
"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See 
yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?" -Buddha
/\  /\ 
>' .' <
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/attachments/20040610/5afe6b69/attachment.html