https://tigersinamerica.org Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:19:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://tigersinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png https://tigersinamerica.org 32 32 https://tigersinamerica.org/2010/09/01/sierra-loves-her-pool/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000 https://tigersinamerica.org/?p=2115 Sierra loves her pool, and will stalk Ekaterina from inside it. She puts her ears down and waits until Ekaterina is just close enough, then charges out of the pool and runs around chasing and splashing water everywhere.

]]> https://tigersinamerica.org/2010/09/01/tws-did-not-forget/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:30:00 +0000 https://tigersinamerica.org/?p=2112 TWS did not forget them, however, and when the Texas facility closed, TWS rescued Sierra and Ekaterina for good, as well as being a major factor in the successful placement of many of the other animals threatened with euthanasia if sanctuary could not be found.

]]> https://tigersinamerica.org/2010/09/01/ekaterina-and-sierra/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000 https://tigersinamerica.org/?p=2109 Read more]]> Ekaterina (orange) and Sierra (white) came to The Wildcat Sanctuary in 2010 with a number of other big cats after a facility in Texas that housed over 400 animals went bankrupt. But their story began before that. They were both kept by an exploitive breeder in Ohio who charged the public to pet and have photos taken with adult tigers that were chained down to platforms. A number of the tigers also had their canine teeth removed. The breeder was eventually closed down after multiple incidents of reported animal attacks on visitors. Sierra and Ekaterina were featured in an investigative report by 20/20. TWS offered to take them when the breeder walked away, leaving her tigers to starve, but they were sent to Texas instead.

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