11-02-2011, 06:39 PM
|
#1
|
Site Admin
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 11,971
|
Judge rules Tony the Tiger can't stay at truck stop
Following a legal battle among Baton Rouge courts, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael Sandlin, a judge today ruled that Sandlin's big cat ? a 550-pound Bengal-Siberian tiger ? can no longer be kept at the truck stop.
This afternoon, Judge Michael Caldwell ruled that Sandlin's current permit to keep the cat (issued by the LDWF) was illegally issued, must be revoked, and can't be renewed.? [ Read more ]
[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
|
|
|
|