The owners of a Florida-based sanctuary made famous by the Netflix docuseries, “Tiger King,” say they plan to move most of their big cats to an Arkansas refuge and eventually sell their 67-acre (27-hectare) property
FILE - Carole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue, walks the property near Tampa, Fla., July 20, 2017. The owners of the Florida-based tiger sanctuary made famous by the Netflix docuseries, “Tiger King,” say they plan to move their big cats to an Arkansas facility and sell their property. TAMPA, Fla. — — The owners of a Florida-based sanctuary made famous by the Netflix docuseries,"
""We have always said that our goal was to 'put ourselves out of business,' meaning that there would be no big cats in need of rescue and no need for the sanctuary to exist," Howard Baskin wrote earlier this week in the post. The cost per big cat of running the sanctuary, as its population dropped from 100 to 41 cats, has more than doubled in the past several years, becoming “an increasingly inefficient use of donor funds per cat to operate a facility like ours,” he wrote.
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