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Noah's Ark Skinned Circus Tige Noah's Ark Skinned Circus Tiger Dumped Body
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Controversial Christian zoo skinned tiger Tira and stored her head in freezer
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:52 PM on 19th October 2009
A Christian zoo decapitated a dead tiger and cut off its paws before it dumped the carcass on farmland and stored the head in a freezer, an investigation has revealed.
The female Bengal tiger called Tira was skinned after she died of natural causes and then buried in a black bin bag at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm.
Investigators also discovered she was on loan from the owner of the Great British Circus - one of the last big top shows in Britain to use live tigers in performances.
Bosses at the zoo, in Wraxall near Bristol, admitted the skin, paws and head were removed to be hung on the wall as part of a display for 'secondary education'.
After the revelations, staff at Noah's Ark - which promotes creationism and denies the theory of evolution - dug up the remains and incinerated them.
The case emerged in an undercover investigation by campaign group the Captive Animals Protection Society (CAPS), which planted an undercover worker at the zoo.
The organisation also claims the zoo is raising young tigers as part of a breeding programme to hand back to the circus.
Campaign Director Craig Redmond today called for the attraction to be closed down.
He said: 'What we discovered was shocking but really only scratched at the surface of what goes on in zoos.
'We initially planned just to confirm that the zoo was a breeding centre for the circus owner but the fate of the tiger Tira, her mutilated body dumped in a hole, shows how these animals are treated as commodities, bred to attract tourists.
'We have reported the zoo to various authorities including the local council which licenses the zoo, calling for an investigation as well as its licence to be revoked.'
The undercover 'employee' spent two months working as a volunteer at the site from early June to mid August and secretly filmed conversations.
During that time, recorded conversations confirmed that staff were aware animals were received from Martin Lacey, who owns the Great British Circus.
But when asked, members of the public were told the animals were bought in from a 'private collection in the north' - which it emerged was Mr Lacey.
Three tigers arrived at the zoo in June and July, one of which was the heavily pregnant six-year-old Bengal tiger, Tira.
Three of her cubs were stillborn and the fourth was immediately removed and hand-reared but died three weeks later.
Tira died ten days after the birth and staff cut off her head and paws before her skin was removed and her body dumped on the farm's grounds.
Mr Redmond added: 'The body was buried for reasons unknown, but before any test or a post mortem could be carried out to ascertain the cause of death.
'The head was later seen by our undercover investigator wrapped in a black bag in a freezer, but the paws were never seen again.
'Our insider was told the skin would be hung on the wall as a decoration.'
Anthony Bush, the owner of Noah's Ark, said he has since dug the tiger up and corrected his mistake after Defra vowed to investigate.
A spokeswoman for the zoo said: 'Noah's Ark does not own or hold circus tigers and they are not the property of the Great British Circus.
'The Tigers at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm belong to Linctrek Ltd, a company providing trained animals for use in film, other collections and TV.
'A director of Linctrek is Martin Lacey, who also owns the Great British Circus. We have never, when questioned, withheld information regarding this.
'It has always been well known that our tigers and camels come from a private collector in the north of England.
'Tira the tiger died from a pre-existing condition which was found following a thorough and legal post mortem. Being a zoo and a farm we buried the Tiger under regulations covering farm land.
'However, on subsequently being informed of other regulations we acted instantly to remedy this situation.
'The tiger skin, head and feet will be used for secondary education here at the Zoo and is a common practice within the zoo community.
'The welfare of the animals is exceptional with Noah's Ark passing government and institutionally accredited inspections.'
However, the zoo denied claims that it is part of a breeding programme and says it had 'no immediate plans' to hand back Tira's cubs.
The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Somerset Trading Standards and Defra have all vowed to investigate the allegations.
Professional group the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums said it would also investigate.
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300 dead cats found packed in 300 dead cats found packed in freezers
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Description:A man was arrested Saturday after police found 300 cats packed in three freezers in his Sacramento home, the Sacramento Bee reports. When police entered the house of Michael Louis Vondueren, 47, which was littered with cat feces, they also found 30 cats that were still alive, according the the Bee. Vondueren, who was living in the house with his 81-year-old mother, was arrested on suspicion of possession of an automatic weapon and obstructing police officers. The cats were removed by animal control workers. -- Tony Barboza
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Pat Engesser Robert Engesser Pat Engesser Robert Engesser
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Pat Engesser Robert Engesser DBA The Zoo AKA Jungle Safari
Robert Engesser, d.b.a. The Zoo
USDA License #58-C-0295
P.O. Box 2060,Chiefland, FL 32644
Robert Engesser’s traveling exhibit, The Zoo, has repeatedly failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) has cited The Zoo numerous times for failing to provide proper food and water sources and adequate veterinary care, for failing to provide environmental enrichment to primates, for failing to maintain
enclosures and transport trailers, and for poor housekeeping. A leopard from The Zoo attacked a 5-year-old girl, causing injuries. The exhibit has traveled under the names Engesser’s Exotic Felines, Luce Enterprises, and Endangered Species, Inc., in the past.January 24, 2005: A Hernando Today article about an exotic-animal auction in Florida described Pat Engessor as a big cat breeder who had been in business for “more than 30 years.” Engesser said that she attended the auction with the hope of selling lion cubs to other breeders. Animals sold at such auctions often end up at canned hunts, in the “pet” trade, or at poorly run roadside zoos.
March 1, 2002: The USDA cited The Zoo for allowing children to come into direct contact with animals without supervision during exhibition. For the third time, the USDA cited the facility for failing to develop and implement
an environment enrichment plan for primates. The baboon and a lemur were exhibiting stereotypic behavior.August 22, 2001: During an inspection, the USDA noted that the baboon’s stereotypic behavior was still not being addressed.
May 24, 2001: The USDA cited The Zoo for failing to provide environment enrichment to a baboon housed alone or to the ring-tailed lemurs. The baboon was seen pacing and head-rolling. A lion cub was being fed an inadequate diet of goat milk replacer. Water containers for the camel and llama were
covered in algae.August 17, 2000: The Zoo was cited for failing to provide proper veterinary care to a tiger cub suffering from metabolic bone disease due to lack of proper diet and to a leopard with several areas of missing hair.
June 28, 2000: During a complaint- based inspection, the USDA cited The Zoo for failing to provide adequate food to animals.
November 4, 1999: The USDA cited The Zoo for failing to store food to protect against deterioration, mold, or contamination by vermin.
April 30, 1999: The Zoo was cited for keeping a tiger cub in a cage in which he was unable to turn about freely and make normal postural adjustments. The exhibit was again cited for failing to maintain proper veterinary records to document that an underweight elephant was receiving proper medical attention.
January 28, 1999: The USDA cited The Zoo for failing to provide an inclusive program of veterinary care, including measures to prevent zoonosis. A lion cub transmitted ringworm to other animals and a caretaker. The facility was also cited for failing to keep enclosures and food storage areas in good repair. A dead tiger cub was found in the freezer, having died of an unknown (“probably infectious”) respiratory illness.
July 24, 1998: During a complaint- based inspection, the USDA cited The Zoo for failing to maintain enclosures adequate to prevent animals from escaping. The exhibitor was also cited for lack of a proper program of
veterinary care.August 15, 1996: A Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., official wrote to Engesser, instructing him to cease exhibiting animals at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations because this was a violation of their corporate policy.
April 24, 1996: The USDA cited The Zoo for failing to maintain transport enclosures in good repair.
November 7, 1995: The Zoo was cited for improper storage of supplies, for failing to maintain enclosures in good repair, and for a lack of proper water sources for three leopards.
May 20, 1995: In a letter to the owners of The Zoo, the attending veterinarian noted observations that the big cats were overweight and stated that a leopard’s tail had to be amputated.
May 15, 1995: The Zoo was cited for failing to maintain enclosures in order to prevent injury to animals.
March 2, 1995: The USDA cited The Zoo for housing goats, sheep, and llamas in enclosures in which they could not make normal postural adjustments. It was again cited for failing to provide enrichment to a baboon who was constantly pacing and picking at her skin—a sign of zoochosis. There was also no record of veterinary care, and an elephant was observed to be thin.
October 12, 1994: The USDA cited The Zoo for failing to store food in order to prevent contamination and to maintain transport containers in good repair.
June 10, 1994: The Zoo was cited for failing to store food properly to prevent contamination. The baboon was exhibiting stereotypic behavior indicative of zoochosis.
March 8-11, 1994: During this inspection, the USDA cited The Zoo for failing to maintain enclosures in good repair and for failing to store bedding to prevent contamination. A male tiger was noted as underweight and suffering from a lame paw. The Zoo staff was not able to provide records to account for the whereabouts of all animals. Enclosures and perimeter fencing were noted to be inadequate to safely contain animals. The camel’s water source was found to be filled with algae and silt.
February 11, 1994: The USDA cited The Zoo for failing to implement an environment enrichment program for primates, and the lemurs did not have access to a den to which they could retreat from the public. Food was noted to be stored in a manner in which it could become contaminated, and enclosures were noted to be in disrepair.
May 11, 1993: The USDA cited The Zoo for housing lemurs, lions, and tigers in transport containers.
August 9, 1990: According to the Rapid City Journal, a leopard attacked and mauled a 5-year-old girl while on display at the Black Hills Motor Classic in South Dakota. Reportedly, the leopard, who was restrained with a small chain fastened to a box, leaped on the girl’s back as she walked past him.
See an interactive online map of exotic cat owners . See people being stupid with big cats, endangering themselves and others HERE . See the awful conditions that many captive cats endure HERE .
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SICKO ANIMAL HOUSE SICKO ANIMAL HOUSE
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SICKO ANIMAL HOUSE
By DAN MANGAN New York Post letters@nypost.com
June 2, 2005 -- A Long Island man accused of chaining and beating his wife as two leopards crouched nearby had created a zoological horror show at his home, authorities revealed yesterday.
In the house were stuffed endangered animals, an emaciated Doberman and rotting animal carcasses, they said.
"This is probably one of the most bizarre - if not the most bizarre - case I've ever seen," said Chief Roy Gross of the Suffolk County SPCA . "It's unbelievable."
Dix Hills resident Anthony Barone likely soon will be charged with a "whole host" of federal and state crimes related to protected animals, Gross said.
Barone, 36, already has been charged with assaulting his estranged wife, and endangering their four kids by allowing them contact with the leopards, which are now under SPCA control.
Suffolk police busted Barone on Sunday for the May 20 assault on Anastasia Barone, 33, and in the process discovered the leopards in a dank, feces-laden room.
Barone, a tattoo artist who allegedly kicked his wife in the face with a steel-toed boot after chaining her to a staircase, is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
On Tuesday night, the SPCA returned to the run-down home - valued at $1 million - and found stomach-churning evidence.
Gross said that inside were "all kinds of animal skins and heads" from tigers, rhinoceroses, baboons, jaguars and snow leopards, as well as two stuffed lions posed standing on their hind legs in attack position.
"Possession of a lot of the skins from these exotic cats is absolutely illegal," Gross said.
In a crate in the garage, an agent found a starving Doberman pinscher, which Gross' deputy said was "one of the worst cases of animal neglect he'd ever seen."
There was a dead, decaying dog in the garage "it was skinned," said Gross, adding that Barone "was allowing it to rot, and he was going to boil the bones and add them to his bone collection."
Two healthy dogs - both mastiffs - were removed from the home.
In an unplugged freezer investigators found the rotting carcass of a lynx. Gross said Anastasia Barone told authorities the lynx mauled the couple's 8-year-old son last winter. She also told the SPCA that after the attack, Anthony Barone chained up the lynx, which strangled itself on the chain.
Anthony Barone, who Gross said was in the process of buying two black leopards, describes himself as a "big-cat trainer, animal lover" in his Match.com dating Web site profile.
"Seeking strong willed direct person (no games here) into Big Cats, motorcross (awesome guitar player) music, outdoors, kids, Travel ( Hollywood ) tattoos and real Love," Barone wrote in his badly spelled profile, which features photos of him with the leopards.
http://www.nypost.com/n ews/regionalnews/24725.htm
Leopar d man chained his wife to wall
A man who kept leopards as pets has been arrested in New York state for allegedly beating and chaining his wife to a wall.
The leopards were allowed to roam the house in Dix Hills and came in contact with the couple's four young children, aged two, four, seven and eight, Suffolk County police said.
Anthony Barone, 34, was charged with reckless endangerment for allegedly letting the leopards near his family, assault and unlawful imprisonment.
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See an interactive online map of exotic cat owners . See people being stupid with big cats, endangering themselves and others HERE . See the awful conditions that many captive cats endure HERE .
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Vernon Yates Wildlife Rescue a Vernon Yates Wildlife Rescue and Rehab 1
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Vernon Yates Wildlife Rescue and Rehab
Because Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc., is located in Seminole, FL and its owner, Vernon Yates is often set up in parking lots with his tigers in circus wagons for people to gawk at, we get a lot of angry mail from people asking us if this was our display. Big Cat Rescue does NOT take exotic cats offsite and we do not condone it. There is no way to insure the cat's safety, nor the public's safety in such situations and it shows disrespect for the animals to treat them like props. If you see people using animals this way, please take photos, videos and document when, where and what the conditions were. Send it to us at MakeADifference@BigCatRescue.org and we will use it to try and get laws passed so that animals cannot be abused this way.
Check for yourself to see if Vernon Yates of Wildlife Rescue and Rehab meets the sanctuary standards for an accredited animal refuge. Vernon will argue that he is a shelter and not a sanctuary to overcome that shortcoming, but what does that really mean? There is no good place for these cats to go as the accredited sanctuaries are full so where do his cats go if he is just a temporary shelter as he claims?
At the following link is a story that ran on CNN about 5 tigers and a lion who were being starved and were more than 100lbs underweight. The Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) was reported to have been investigating the owner for two years and believed the cats were starving but couldn't prove it. The owner, Susan MacKay, was said to have a tiger in her freezer that she was feeding to these cats, and still the FWC did nothing. When the FWC did finally take action they called Yates because he will pick up anything they ask him to take. He already has 200 exotic animals on 2.5 acres in a residential neighborhood next door to an elementary school.
In the clip you can see Yates yelling at the obviously stressed cats who were being kept, two to a cage, in circus wagons. If Yates cannot control his temper in front of a CNN camera crew, it is depressing to think how he must behave when no one is looking, which is most of the time.
One tiger appears to have lost half of her tail and the cats are roaring at each other, baring their teeth and threatening violence. In the video Vernon claims that if he gets the cats he will "find a new home for them," but legitimate zoos don't want castoffs from the pet trade, so the only buyers will likely be similar or worse situations than where the cats came from.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/t ech/2007/11/12/sot.fl.starving.tigers.lion.wtsp
In the video above, his lack of intelligence, compassion or patience is abundantly clear, so why does the FWC call him? It is most likely because he will make their immediate problem go away.No one wants to be the bad guy and euthanize an animal, but there are not nearly enough true sanctuaries to take in the exploding population of lions and tigers. If the FWC were to tighten up the rules on who could possess these cats, Vernon Yates wouldn't have a market for them and wouldn't have any way to bail out the FWC.
This link is to a County Commission meeting where Vernon Yates accuses a County Commissioner and others of lying and demands that they apologize to him and the tiger that he carries all over town in the back of his pick up truck. http://www.pinellascounty.org/medi a/bcc022205/Results.htm
In the photos at right you can see the awful concrete and steel prisons that are jammed together on less than 2.5 acres in a residential neighborhood, near a school. Big cats are not designed to live on concrete and need far more space than is provided at places that just meet minimum state requirements. Vernon Yates started Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in 1980 and is reported to have more than *40 big cats in the back yard of his residential home located in Seminole, FL. See the video here on Fox 13:
*an article from 1998 said he had 40 big cats, Vernon Yates has claimed to have 48 big cats, but as of 11/11/07 he only has 14 tigers and a lion in his collection of 200 exotics.Where did all of the other exotic cats go?
Vernon Yates figured his Siberian tiger , Tai , was owed an apology .
February 27, 2005
Section: PINELLAS
Page: 6CARLOS MONCADAcmoncada@tampatrib.com
By CARLOS MONCADA cmoncada@tampatrib.com
CLEARWATER — Vernon Yates figured his Siberian tiger , Tai , was owed an apology .
Yates characterized the big cat as a victim of circumstance when the outspoken wildlife trapper had an altercation with county Commissioner Ken Welch last year. Welch saw Yates driving the golden, white and black tiger in the back of a pickup truck in the commissioner's south St. Petersburg neighborhood one morning in September. He called the number on the truck and talked to Yates , who was behind the wheel. What happened next depends on which version you believe.
Welch told his colleagues at a meeting in January that Yates and Tai apparently had been visiting in the neighborhood overnight, as he spotted them at 7:30 a.m. while taking his daughter to school. On Tuesday night, with county commissioners set to act on setback requirements for outdoor wildlife cages,
Yates showed up and angrily confronted Welch about the phone call and comments the commissioner made in January. Yates said the incident happened at 9 a.m., that he wasn't in Welch's neighborhood all night and that he was there picking up animals, not visiting. He said the commissioner told him over the phone several times, "Do you know who I am?" "I don't think it's right for any government person to scream at anybody, "Do you know who I am?' " Yates said.
Yates also took issue with Pinellas animal services director Kenny Mitchell, who told commissioners he saw children coming up to Yates ' truck at Bardmoor Shopping Center in Seminole and putting their hands on Tai 's steel cage. Yates said no children touched his tiger 's cage. He said Mitchell should have reported the incident to the state if he believed the public was in danger.
"My tiger was totally within his legal rights to be where it was ," Yates said. "I think some people here owe me and my tiger an apology ." Welch denied asking Yates whether he knew who he was . The commissioner said he did identify himself and asked Yates why he had a tiger in the back of his truck. "At no point did I say, "Do you know who I am?' " Welch said. "Most of your statements are patently false." As for an apology , Welch said, "You won't get it from me." Reporter Carlos Moncada can be reached at (727) 823-3412.
Cutline: Vernon Yates Confronted county Commissioner Ken Welch at meeting Tuesday Tribune photo by MARK GUSS This caged Siberian tiger caught the attention of county Commissioner Ken Welch one morning as it rode in the back of Vernon Yates ' Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation truck.See an interactive online map of exotic cat owners .
Vernon Yates' tiger breaks off her teeth on chain link cage:
Re: "The Tiger and My Dentist" (aka My Dentist, Animal Hero), this issue. I received the following email from Dr. Craddock's chief nurse and significant other....
SONG is a 200 lb. Siberian tiger who lives at the Seminole Wildlife Rescue and Preserve. Vernon Yates is the owner of Wildlife Rescue and also happens to be one of our dental patients.
Several months back, Vernon Yates approached Dr. Craddock and explained that he had a problem with one of his Siberian Tigers. The tiger, 11-year-old SONG, had tried to get into a male tiger's cage by chewing through a chain link fence. In the process of doing so, she broke her canine teeth, and they consequently became abscessed. Thus, she stopped eating and was rapidly losing weight.
The dilemma!
Normal procedure would be to extract infected broken teeth on an animal such a a tiger. However, due to the structure of a tiger's skull (their roots being so close to their sinuses) removing their teeth can create future sinus problems. Not to mention also making it extremely difficult for them to chew up meat.
In any case, after Vernon Yates explained the problem to Dr. Craddock and myself, we decided to go to work and create instruments long enough that would allow us to do a root canal on her 2.5-inch long canine teeth. We volunteered our time and expertise to do this with the hopes of getting her to eat again. If the root canal was a success, we could then prepare her teeth for crowns.
The first of two precedures was done several months back in May. SONG was placed under general anesthesia at the Bayshore Animal Clinic. Dr. Craddock and I prepared for the 3-hour long surgical root canal procedure. Lo and behold, the root canal was successfully completed and impressions were taken for her new white gold crowns.
Our dental lab, Fox Dental, located in Tampa , donated the white gold for her crowns. They even went so far as to engrave Dr. Craddock's initials (JEC) into the white gold crowns.
On 9/23/02, SONG was again placed under general anesthesia and prepared for the installation of her new crowned canines.
After 5 long hours, the surgery was another success!!!! Her new white gold crowns were in place!
Last reports from her owner, Mr. Yates: She was once again eating and smiling and very pretty with her four (4) new shiny teeth.
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Vernon Yates Calls Commissioner a Liar
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This link is to the entire County Commission meeting where Vernon Yates accuses a County Commissioner and others of lying and demands that they appologize to him and the tiger that he carries all over town in the back of his pick up truck. http://www.pinellascounty.org/medi a/bcc022205/Results.htm
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