Massive cats shouldn’t be displayed in school proms, utilized in photograph shoots with pregnant girls or with youngsters celebrating their quinceañera (15th birthday), or rented out for events. Nonetheless, two big-cat exploiters, Frank Pajon of Everglades Exotics and Jeremy Possman of Predators Limitless, lease out tigers and use different unique animals for events and photograph shoots that put the animals and people in grave hazard.
Tiger for Lease? Animals Are Not Props
Pajon’s Everglades Exotics and Possman’s Predators Limitless lease out tigers, wolves, and different animals for harmful maternity and birthday photograph shoots coordinated with photographers, largely within the Miami space. Usually in these photograph shoots, pregnant girls pose subsequent to grownup tigers and lions or youngsters celebrating their quinceañera pose with their faces subsequent to these of the large cats and wolves. To ensure that these women’ 15th birthday shouldn’t be their final, animals resembling tigers, lions, and wolves ought to by no means be in shut contact with people.
Everglades Exotics and Predators Limitless Put People in Hazard and Exploit Massive Cats
Massive cats are apex predators, and there are no circumstances underneath which it’s protected for the general public to have shut contact with them. Of their pure habitat, tigers keep away from people, however there’s no method to understand how they’ll react when pressured into unnatural conditions like photograph shoots and events.
Paying to make use of massive cats or different animals for leisure means funding their merciless exploitation. Possman has been cited for animal welfare violations, together with failing to offer animals with protected and safe enclosures and enough veterinary care. Massive cats rented out for occasions are usually pressured to reside in tiny, cramped cages, the place they’re denied the chance to fulfill their fundamental social and physiological wants.
What You Can Do to Assist Massive Cats and Different Animals
By no means take part in cub-petting encounters or photograph ops with wild animals, and make sure to steer clear of any venue the place lions, tigers, or different animals are used as props. Clarify to your folks, members of the family, and social media followers why roadside zoos and wildlife-rental corporations are merciless, and encourage them to assist respected sanctuaries as an alternative.
You may get up for animals by pledging to not assist amenities or occasions that supply encounters or photograph ops with them. To assist cease using animals as props, urge your U.S. senators to go the Massive Cat Public Security Act. If handed, it might safeguard big-cat households by ending the non-public possession of and public contact with these animals.