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Oscar & Chibi Bengal Tigers Get new home at the Oregon Tiger Sanctuary IN EARLY FEBRUARY OF 2012 - The Oregon Tiger Sanctuary was contacted by a private owner in Reno NV who was losing her home and the ability to care for two 7 year old male Bengal tigers that she had lovingly rescued herself from a big cat traveling show. Oscar and Chibi, though not blood brothers became soul brothers as they spent the first 6 months of their lives traveling around the country to malls and fairs with eleven other exotic cats in a horse trailer where they were handled by and photographed with the public. After exploiting them as babies and as is often the case, especially with males, they were destined to be euthanized at 6 months of age until Dorothy W. learned of their fate and intervened to save their lives and agreed to care for and give them a home. |
 Chibi & Oscar in Reno as recently rescued cubs |
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Little Chibi, before he was rescued, was so desperate to escape the traveling show, at one point while captive in a dog carrier in the back of a speeding pickup truck pulled the kennel door in and them leapt from the truck while it was traveling at 70 mph. He luckily was recovered by a state trooper some time later and brought to a facility that treated his wounds. The traveling show owner, thinking he could not have survived his jump, only finally learned of his whereabouts 3 days later and sadly was able to recover Chibi. Over time PETA and many individuals filed complaints against the traveling show owner and they were cited by the USDA for willful violations of the Animal Welfare Act, were fined and had their USDA exhibitors license suspended. |
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The Oregon Tiger Sanctuary is asked every year to place exotics at our facility and it is never easy for Penny to make decisions about whether we can and who will join our "family". OTS seldom accepts exotic animals from private owners for many reasons including that private owners will often go out and support the black market in exotics by purchasing another animal. But Oscar and Chibi's mom built a wonderful large enclosure for them and raised them for 6 and 1/2 years and had every intention of caring for them their entire lives until unforeseen circumstances prevented that. Their story became so emotionally precious to Penny that she was compelled to include Oscar and Chibi in our OTS family. |
 Oscar home at OTS • April 22, 2012 |
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