A Michael Broad Blog
Wealthy individuals living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who collect exotic, large, wild cat species are often feeding their illegally acquired trophy cats such as cheetahs and lions a wholly inadequate diet of chicken meat and nothing else leading to serious ill-health such as neurological disorders resulting, ultimately, in an early and unnecessary …
In 2014, three cheetahs were bought from an eastern European dealer by Dee and Daniel Ashman of “Predator Experience” in the Lake District, England. Dee and Daniel failed to obtain planning permission for their new cheetah enclosure before they acquired the cheetahs. The local authority, the Lake District National Park Authority, have refused to …
I am referring to the release of dozens of large wild animals including tigers and lions from a private zoo near Zanesville, Ohio owned by Terry Thompson. The story was all over the internet newspapers (this is one example). Thompson decided at aged 62 that he had had enough and released the animals and …
