Posted on 06/24/2015 4:20:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Mexican authorities said Wednesday they found six tigers, seven baboons, four camels and three dromedaries abandoned in cages without food, water or adequate care in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan.
The passage of laws forbidding animal acts in circuses has raised fears that the exotic species might be abandoned once they could no longer pay for their keep by performing.
The Attorney General's Office for Environmental Protection said a total of 20 animals were found near the city of Merida, many missing claws, teeth or fur.
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Oh my.
If they would just pay the animals a living wage, this wouldn’t be an issue!
I don’t have the details worked out yet but I’m quite sure that man made global warming has something to do with it.
Scumbags might at least have let them out of their cages to forage for themselves.
Taste funny? I thought they only got rid of the animals. Did they ban clowns too?
LOL Nothing says fun like letting 6 Bengal tigers loose to fend for themselves!
Oh well, the camels and baboons could fend
if the tigers didn’t eat them.
For a moment I was confused and thought you were talking about business in Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicongo, Los Angeles.....
And then I realized you are referencing the circus animals in the story.
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