Posted By: on 2007-12-26
In Reply to: Oh my goodness that's terrible! Do you know here it is legal for people to have them as PETS!? (s - Be safe!

It escaped somehow from its enclosure (they think it scaled the fence somehow as they know it did not go out the cage door). The tiger was shot and killed. It had previously attacked a zoo keeper a year ago (they lived obviously or it would have been killed then probably).

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