With a second tiger having escaped into Gauteng's urban landscape, the debate around keeping wild animals as pets has now intensified.
JOHANNESBURG - Global animal welfare organisation, Four Paws, has urged national government to phase out all non-indigenous big cat species in South Africa to prevent them being kept as pets.
The animal's exact whereabouts remained a mystery, after a security company claimed it was recaptured, but refused to tell authorities exactly where the big cat was taken.The Edenvale SPCA said there had been no confirmation or proof provided by SOS Security that the cat had been relocated. The SPCA said SOS Security also gave it the runaround with false sightings to drive attention away from the tiger’s location so that she could be moved.
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