CIRCUS VAZQUEZ ORDERED TO REMOVE TIGERS FROM EXHIBITION EVICT: DEATH OF BIG CAT BLAMED ON ANIMALS HELD IN TOO CLOSE PROXIMITY.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer PANORAMA CITY -- First the elephants got the boot. Now, city officials have evicted five tigers from a local circus that had nearly ripped the head off another tiger this spring. The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Department of Animal Services ordered Circus Vazquez to remove its tigers Thursday after pulling its conditional use permit. "The tigers, it turned out, had killed a fellow tiger on March 31," said Ed Boks, general manager for the department. "They were cited by the USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. after that for having too many tigers in close proximity to each other. "We went out there and found them close together in the same cage and thought they were a danger to the public." The tigers had been performing this month at Circus Vazquez across from the Panorama City Mall City Mall is a shopping mall located in Eroii Revolutiei square, Bucharest, Romania. The City Mall include:
Acting under new guidelines for exotic animals, the city last Friday ordered a Circus Vasquez elephant keeper to leave town with his three elephants for having recently violated federal animal welfare laws. Boks kicked out the tigers after learning that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had cited Circus Vazquez in March while performing in Huntington Park Huntington Park, city (1990 pop. 56,065), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; founded 1856, inc. 1906. Its varied manufactures include metal, glass and rubber products and industrial equipment. . A female tiger was nearly decapitated de·cap·i·tate tr.v. de·cap·i·tat·ed, de·cap·i·tat·ing, de·cap·i·tates To cut off the head of; behead. [Late Latin d after she was left in a cage overnight with five other big cats. Animal welfare activists planned to protest the killing today and are calling upon federal regulators to take action. "If people really knew the extent of the suffering of animals in the circus, they wouldn't go," said Catherine Doyle, the Los Angeles-based campaign director for In Defense of Animals In Defense of Animals (IDA) is an animal welfare organisation based in San Rafael, California, USA. Its slogan is "working to protect the rights, welfare, and habitats of animals". . dana.bartholomew(at)dailynews.com 818-713-3730 |
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