A big cat remains at large in a Houston neighborhood and “Tiger King” star Carol Baskin blames Texas senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn for letting it happen.
A collared tiger was spotted prowling a residential neighborhood on Mother’s Day and deputy Wes Manion was forced to hold the cat at gunpoint, backing up as it advanced upon him. When Victor Hugo Cuevas came out of a house to collect his pet, Manion was caught on video exclaiming, “Get the f–k back inside. F–k you and your f–king tiger.”
Apparently there's a tiger loose on my parents' West Houston street? pic.twitter.com/TgdIiPSPKx
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Baskin said that these types of incidents are becoming commonplace in Texas and named two senators as responsible.
“I really hope that senators Cruz and Cornyn will sign on to the Big Cat Public Safety Act, because if they had last year when the House passed this bill – the senate didn’t bring it up for a vote – If it had passed last year, this wouldn’t have happened this time.”
Baskin went on to explain exactly why she saddled them with the blame. “This cub’s nine months old, which means it probably aged out being used as a pay-to-play prop in December of last year when this passed the house with a two-thirds vote.”
She said that residents were in “extreme danger” from the apex predator, noting that there was a children’s birthday party in the neighborhood at the time of the Tiger’s romp. “Children running and screaming and having fun, that would’ve triggered every instinct in that cat to kill.”
The tiger expert praised Manion for his “amazing restraint” and doing the exact right thing. “He kept eye contact, he backed away slowly,” Baskin said. “A tiger, if you look down, if you turn, if that neighbor had run back to his door, that just triggers their instinct to kill.”
The big cat is reportedly still on the loose, as Cuevas claims he is not the owner and does not have possession of the tiger. The police are still searching for the Bengal’s whereabouts.
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That is like the gun bills they will do nothing to get the guns away from the criminals. Like in Chicago the south side has been a gun free zone for years and all the laws do nothing as the guns are carried by people who dont fallow any laws and are not registered gun owners and most of the gun dont have serial numbers on them anymore. Congress can pass a law to ban all guns and they will not go away, they hide them from law and kill people at will. Only thing to correct is to arrest all criminals and gangs and get rid of them then maybe in 100 years will change. England tried even took guns from police and not long ago had to give the guns back to police for there own safety. For tigers you could ban all large cats from being kept at zoos also as they have escaped from zoos also
Exactly right, and someone should tell that woman that having a tiger in Houston is already a crime. When will they learn that criminals don’t care about laws?
Question
Why the f*** do you have a tiger
why not
It serves no useful purpose and the tigers don’t like it.
Who is this lame brained idiot.
Let me see if I understand this goofball. An apex-predator is loose because two GOP senators did not pass a law she wants. I believed Joe Exotic bred tigers for the cubs to attract children to his shows. And when they aged out, I believe he put them down and buried them on the property. I was mightily offended by his crass nature.
That said, I sided with Baskin but only slightly. I don’t believe apex-predators should be property of individuals or even in zoos. I believe natural wild land areas, e.g., those for rhinos, hippos, elephants, orangutans, gorillas, et al., should replace all those animal prisons. But until that happens, we need zoos and wildlife farms to fend off extinction.
Baskin seems to be no better than Joe Exotic in forcing her opinion on the rest of us. She has her own objectives and has little regard for others. Seems she’s just another pushy millionaire with an agenda. When anyone gets in her way, even U.S. Senators, she shifts into destruction gear. I hope Texas shoves her imagined state of royalty up her ….
Well, the right people can trap the tiger and since it is likely it is use to people, it could go to a zoo and live a long life and not be as dangerous as a newly captured wild tiger would be. Animals raised by humans don’t know what’s wrong, they’re animals and considered at the least the person who had the tiger and fed and took care of him/her as a friend but when they end up in a world they don’t know, fear controls them. If the tiger can be caught okay it can go to the zoo where people can enjoy the tiger and he/she can have a longer life than in the wild where killing by humans or an injury brings about early death.
Loose in the neighborhood? Last I heard, the guy who owns it stopped an officer from shooting it, brought it back into his house, then brought it out and drove off with it. He returned later without the tiger, most likely having brought it to another location like a friends house. It’s also said he owns one or two monkeys neighbors reportedly had seen through windows in his house.
I’m sure they talked the tiger into walking around the neighborhood . Only from the mouth of a liberal.