Breaking! The Big Cat Public Safety Act Is Re-Introduced To U.S. Senate; Bill Prohibits Private Individuals, Breeders & Questionable Exhibitors From Possessing Big Cats
By Lauren Lewis –
June 7, 2018
A federal bill that aims to end the private possession of big cats such as tigers, lions, leopards, and pumas as pets, as well as to stop cub petting and limit exhibitors to those who do not repeatedly violate the law, has been re-introduced in the United States Senate.
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut supported the re-introduction of the latest version of the Big Cat Public Safety Act HR1818, which was originally introduced to the House in March 2017 by Rep. Jeff Denham.
Recent national headlines have documented public outrage at the inhumane display of a tiger at a high school prom in Miami, Florida, alarm as federal agents discovered a tiger cub in a duffel bag at the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Oh thank goodness! 🙂
About time. The whole thing is a no-brainer. People should never have been allowed to own wild animals, much less big predators.
Most people do not have the knowledge or the resources to care for wildlife. Most of the animals live unnatural lives and are abused. Some end up as victims of canned hunts.
I thought Zanesville and the murder of all those magnificent cats, bears, primates, etc., would have been the wake-up call for a complete ban.
But I guess some people can make a few bucks exploiting the wild ones and will yell that the animals are private property. So our gutless wonders in Washington, DC, have let the bills languish. We’ll see . . . .
I wondered about that too, the fact that this bill has to be ‘reintroduced’. What is wrong with people? Laws to stop the selling non-native snakes that people abandon have been weak too – if they were not allowed into the country legally in the first place (not to mention illegal trafficking), they wouldn’t have to be killed in the Everglades.
I really hope this bill passes this time. Very rarely do conservatives and Republicans care about this stuff (unless it relates to perversion which sometimes it does, in the case of killing animals in porn, if you can believe it!, when conservative Justice Alito was the lone dissenter against these appalling porn videos), and the Democrats will throw you a bone once in awhile if you scream loudly enough, but that’s it. There are only a handful of congressmen who give a damn, Raul Grijalva being one. The environment and animal welfare is usually the first thing the Democrats will cut loose in order to appease and gain votes from the right. And it never works.
I’m surprised at Google for interfering with freedom of speech; I wish there was a way to extricate myself from these monolithic companies.
Here’s the background on that case, if anyone is interested. As bad as hunting videos are, they do not sink to the level of pornography. So when anyone, ever, in all seriousness, tries to talk about a ‘spark of divinity’ in humanity, you’d have to fall out of your chair laughing, if human behavior wasn’t so tragic and ugly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Stevens