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TIGER OWNER: Carole Baskin, here in connection with “Tiger King.” Photo: NETFLIX
The woman, who works as a volunteer in the park known through the television series “Tiger King”, is said to have been seriously injured.
Various media outlets, including CNN, are reporting on the incident that occurred Thursday at the Big Cat Rescue Reserve in Tampa, Florida.
The 69-year-old worker is said to have nearly had his arm ripped off.
The woman, who has volunteered at the park for television celebrity Carole Baskin (58) for five years, reached into the tiger’s cage to open an internal lock to a separate area where three-year-old male tiger Kimba , you get your food.
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Then it is said that Kimba attacked. Another volunteer is said to have heard the screams of terror. Only when the person in question and several others came running up, was the tiger said to have released its grip.
For 20 minutes, until the ambulance arrived, a couple of people tried to save the woman’s arm by stopping the bleeding.
Investigated
Big Cat Rescue says in a press release that the worker violated the regulations and therefore the tiger cannot be blamed.
«It breaks with the procedures of inserting a part of the body in a cage where a feline is. Kimba grabbed her arm and nearly ripped it off her shoulder.»Read Baskin’s statement.
However, the tiger has been in quarantine for 30 days while the case is investigated.
The woman’s scars are broken in three places and she is badly injured. However, he must have managed to move his fingers after the attack. On Thursday night she had an operation.
Carole Baskin was made famous through the Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Killing, Chaos and Madness)” this spring. Among other things, the series deals with the bitter dispute between Joseph Maldonado-Passage (57) and Baskin.
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Earlier this year, Baskin took over the right to the entire large area and zoo where Joe Exotic lived and breathed, until in January he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill Baskin.
Baskin has always been a strong opponent of Joe Exotic’s tiger park and believes he has been involved in animal cruelty. She, for her part, claims to save large animals and that her tiger park takes good care of the animals it is supposed to have taken pity on.
The tiger it attacked this week is said to have previously belonged to a circus.
Baskin secured the entire park as a settlement after a lawsuit.
