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SIERRA SAFARI VOLUNTEER WILL RETURN TO WORK
WHEN WOUNDS HEAL

Reno Gazette-Journal March 16, 2004
A volunteer bitten by a leopard in an incident described as the “worst” in Sierra Safari Zoo
history said Monday she’ll resume feeding the facility’s big cats after her injuries heal.

“I love it,” said Beverly Roper, who Thursday was bitten in the back of the head and neck by a
100-pound male leopard named “Sundar” that zoo keepers believe was agitated at being
separated from his female mate. “It’s my life.”

Roper, 54, needed 15 stitches to close a wound in the back of her head and a “few more” to close
a cut behind her left ear. She said she also suffered a neck injury and is wearing a brace.

“This is the worst incident we’ve ever had,” said Jimmie Martin, co-founder of the private zoo
that opened north of Reno in 1989. The zoo will keep the 2-year-old leopard, Martin said.

Roper managed to get the leopard, which Martin said had been declawed, off her back and shut
the cage door.

LEOPARD WAS LIKE 'A BABY' TO PORT SULPHUR WOMAN
Times-Picayune (New Orleans) Wednesday February 11, 2004
PORT SULPHUR -- Between laying down pitchers of beer and platters of stuffed hamburger
steak at a tavern near Deadman's Lane on Plaquemines' lower coast, Julie Miles showed off the
photograph of her baby.
From beneath a glass frame, Jovani stared out, his coat of solid black fur glimmering as he
lounged on the floor of his chain-link cage in Miles' Port Sulphur back yard. "The way she loved
that cat, anyone who came in here would hear about it," said Pam Berthelot, who works with
Miles at River Baron's Bar & Grill in Buras. "It was like her baby."
But for as much as Miles' friends and neighbors indulged her near-constant bragging about the 3-
year-old leopard, some said Tuesday that they were not shocked by news that the animal
clamped its teeth on the back of Miles' skull Monday afternoon, nearly tearing off one ear and
ripping the flesh from her scalp before sheriff's deputies and her brother-in-law shot it dead.
Miles' friends and neighbors, who recalled watching her walk Jovani on a leash when he was a
kitten and seeing him ride in her truck. He was declawed, they said, but not neutered.
LION ATTACKS, KILLS HARDIN COUNTY MAN
The Southern Illinoisan February 13, 2004

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HARDIN COUNTY -- Authorities believe a 52-year-old man bled to death Thursday after an
attack by a lion at his rural Hardin County residence.

Coroner Roger Little said an autopsy was performed on the body of Allison Brent Abell Friday
afternoon in Carmi. Preliminary reports indicate Abell died from a massive hemorrhage. "The
pathologist is relatively certain Mr. Abell bled to death from the animal bites," Little said. "We
believe he went pretty quickly."

Chief Deputy Bill Stark of the Hardin County Sheriff's Department said Kathie Abell told
officers that when she arrived home Thursday evening, she saw the lion loose on the property --
about 50 yards behind the house. The lion was declawed, but "he still had teeth," Stark said.
"We couldn't let that loose on the public. I told the officers if they had a direct shot, put him
down. They did."

HANOVER TEENAGER KILLED BY SIBERIAN TIGERS,
COUGAR
The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario) July 25, 1994
A 16-year-old youth was killed northwest of Waterloo after playing in a cage that held his
uncle's two Siberian tigers and a cougar.

Graydon James Edwards, of Hanover, was found badly injured Sunday morning in the 6-by-24-
metre (20-by-80-foot) cage on his uncle Larry Bott's property at Lot 9, Concession 10 in Howick
Township.

Edwards, who was visiting his uncle for the summer, was pronounced dead on arrival at
Wingham District Hospital. An autopsy has been ordered.

No charges have been laid, and police are still investigating. It's unclear exactly how the youth
died, but Bott said there was a tooth mark on his body, and there was bleeding from his neck.
Other than that, there were few marks on his body, Bott said.

"I love tigers," Bott replied, when asked why he kept the animals as pets. He said the animals are
two years old, quite powerful and have been declawed. They are on display at a family park
owned by Bott.

"This was a freak accident," Bott said, adding he is distraught over his nephew's death. "He loved
those cats. Now I've got to live with this."

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LIVING WITH MING. . . IN A NEW YORK APARTMENT?
The Vancouver Province (British Columbia) December 21, 2003
NEW YORK - A woman who shared a Harlem apartment with a nearly 200-kilogram tiger says
she was terrified at first -- but soon got used to living with the man-eater down the hall.

Caroline Domingo said she couldn't believe her eyes when she spotted the big cat roaming free
in the apartment where she and her husband rented a room from tiger-owner Antoine Yates.

"I walked in the door and [the tiger] was standing there looking at me," recalled Domingo, 49, a
seamstress. "I said, 'I know I'm not seeing this. I know that wasn't a tiger.'

The carnivorous beast was friendly and once gave her a hug with its declawed front paws.

The big cat family started to unravel when Ming mauled Yates, 37, as he tried to stop him from
attacking a pet kitten.

DEPUTIES WERE CALLED ABOUT TIGER A YEAR AGO:
EXOTIC ANIMALS NOT ILLEGAL IN WILKES COUNTY
Winston-Salem Journal (Winston Salem, NC) December 17, 2003
The Bengal tiger who mauled a 10-year-old boy to death Sunday had gotten out of his cage
before and roamed the neighborhood, Sheriff Dane Mastin of Wilkes County said yesterday.

Clayton James Eller, known as C.J., died Sunday after the tiger dragged him into his enclosure.
C.J. had been sweeping snow off a pool cover when the tiger, a 5-year-old, 400-pound male,
dragged him in under a loose place in the fence that dogs had used to go in to play with the tiger.
The boy's uncle, James Marshall Eller, shot and killed the tiger.

C.J. had wounds to the head, neck and chest, said Howard Laney, the county coroner.

The tiger, named Tigger, had been declawed at 4 months old, according to his owner, Mastin
said.

"They told us it never injured anybody," Mastin said. "Even as a cub, when it was playing, it
never brought blood."

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TIGER BITES TWO IN CAR AT ROCKTON SAFARI PARK

Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) April 20, 1996
A young man and woman required emergency surgery after being mauled by a Bengal tiger that
lunged into their car at the African Lion Safari.

They were driving through the dangerous-animal section of the popular Rockton-area tourist
attraction -- home to five Bengal tigers and four lions -- at about 2.45 p.m. yesterday when a
tiger poked a paw into a partially open passenger window.

"The girl rolled her window down and the cat took a swat at her," said Regional Inspector Jack
Sutton of Hamilton-Wentworth police. "The boyfriend tried to help her, and his right arm got
mauled pretty good."

A 20-year-old Hamilton woman underwent surgery at Hamilton General Hospital for large bite
wounds on her right hip and the back of her head. A 23-year-old Stoney Creek man, identified by
police as the driver of the car, underwent similar surgery at the General to save his right arm,
savagely bitten when he tried to stop the tiger from attacking his companion.

The fate of the tigers, all declawed, is unknown, workers said, adding, "The cats were just
being cats."

BOY, 3, ATTACKED BY FAMILY'S PET TIGER REQUIRES 14
HRS. OF SURGERY
Chicago Sun-Times November 26, 1995
A 3-year-old boy was attacked by his family's pet Bengal tiger on Thanksgiving Day and spent
14 hours in an operating room as surgeons treated him for severe head and face wounds, officials
said Friday.

Tyler William Forsythe was in critical condition at Wake Medical Center's pediatric intensive
care unit after surgery to repair eye and nerve damage. He also required emergency plastic
surgery.

"He did not lose an eye, but it's really too soon to say what kind of function he will recover,"
hospital spokeswoman Liz McRoberts said.

Police say the boy was attacked by a year-old, 350-pound tiger that the family bought last
summer from a pet dealer in Goldsboro, N.C. The boy's father, Mark Forsythe, kept the
declawed tiger in a pen near a relative's house outside the Raleigh suburb of Apex and took his
three children there to see the animal Thursday afternoon.

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TIGER ON SCHOOL VISIT MAULS SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY
Agence France Presse September 21, 2002

A Bengal tiger taken to a northern Californian elementary school as part of an educational
program mauled and bit a six-year-old boy when its handler lost control of it on Friday, police
said.

The boy, who was not identified by police or school officials, was flown by helicopter to a
hospital in nearby Palo Alto, where he was listed in guarded condition with a four-inch laceration
on his head.

The tiger, which had been declawed, was at the Baymonte Christian School in Scotts Valley,
California as part of a "Zoo to You" program run by a non-profit group, designed to offer
children an up-close look at animals normally found in the wild.

But at the end of the 20-minute program in the school's chapel, the year-old, 200-pound (90-
kilogram) tiger, which was on a leash, lunged at the child who had been sitting in the front pew,
and bit him.

"She just leaped," said Scotts Valley police Sergeant John Wilson. "There was no warning."

WOMAN IMPROVING AFTER TIGER ATTACK;
NO CHARGES EXPECTED
Palm Beach Post (Florida) February 4, 2002
A Boynton Beach woman mauled after she entered a 750-pound tiger's cage was improving
Sunday, a supervisor at St. Mary's Medical Center said.

Meanwhile, a state wildlife officer said criminal charges appear unlikely for the owner of Bobo,
the Siberian-Bengal mix that fractured the skull of Carol Pistilli, 58. The attack took place
Saturday at the Loxahatchee compound of former Tarzan actor Steve Sipek, who also keeps two
lions, a cougar, a black leopard and another tiger.

Pistilli was in serious but stable condition Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said. A day earlier
she had been listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

The tiger pounced on the woman and bit her on the head, fracturing the back of her skull,
Michael Pistilli said. He said he and Sipek ran to the cage when they heard her screams, and
Sipek ordered the declawed cat away from her.

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TUA'S "MODEL" TIGER KILLS VET
The Cairns Post/The Cairns Sun (Australia) March 29, 2001
AUCKLAND — Boxer David Tua comforted a dying man who had been mauled by a tiger at
the New Zealander's ranch in Las Vegas.

Tua's manager Kevin Barry said Tua rushed outside when he heard screams from the tiger's cage,
on Tuesday, where veterinarian Eric Bloom, 25, was working with the seven-year-old Bengal
tiger, called Jagger, which is used for publicity.

The tiger - previously believed to be tame - had attacked Mr. Bloom from behind, pushed him
over and, by the time Tua arrived, had a firm grip on Mr. Bloom's head with its teeth in his neck.
Owner and trainer Josh Weinstein was hitting the tiger on the head with a spade in an attempt to
loosen its grip, Mr. Barry said.

The declawed tiger relented and Tua and Mr. Weinstein dragged Mr. Bloom to safety.

"They started working on him and David was holding a tourniquet around his neck for some
time. Apparently it was about an hour and a half before the medics got out there. By that time the
boy was dead." He said Tua held the man as he bled to death.

OWNER OF TIGER THAT MAULED BOY CITED ONLY FOR
PERMIT VIOLATION
The Houston Chronicle March 17, 2000
Larry Tidwell, the owner of a Bengal tiger that mauled a small child was cited for not having an
exotic pet facility permit, but animal control officials who inspected the Channelview-area home
Thursday found the animal posed no threat to neighbors. Tidwell said the declawed cat they
have raised since it was a cub normally is calm.

The tiger bit off the arm of 4-year-old Jayton Tidwell on Wednesday after the boy stuck his hand
through the cage.

He remained in an intensive care unit Thursday at Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital,
where he underwent surgery to reattach his right arm that had been severed just above the elbow.
Doctors said the first 24 hours after the operation are critical to the survival of the limb, adding
the child was recuperating well.

Dr. Mark Henry, one of the surgeons who performed the procedure, said the operation was a
success but it was too early to tell how much use of the arm the child would regain.

"There's no way he'll be 100 percent," Henry said. "Where he comes in under that is hard to say

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LION ATTACK – TEEN IS MAULED WHILE ON TRIP
The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia) August 4, 2002 Sunday
Brittany Regelski dreams about the mauling she suffered by a caged lion last month in Mexico
and trembles when she thinks she might not play basketball again, but the 13-year-old Florida
girl said she doesn't blame the animals.

With more than 300 stitches in her left arm, the Landmark Middle School pupil winced as she
described a harrowing attack by one of a pair of lions used as an attraction at a restaurant in
Cozumel.

She was at Wolfson for evaluation after surgery at a hospital in Mexico. Brittany, her mother,
Penny Pilcher, and 15-year-old sister, Ashley Regelski, were on a weeklong group scuba-diving
trip and were at the Parrilla La Mision in Cozumel for dinner when the attack happened.

Brittany was outside the restaurant, where a pair of 2-year-old lions were inside a cage. She and
others had been petting one of the animals through openings large enough to reach through, she
said.

Photos of the injury show a left arm severely torn above the elbow. A left-hander, Brittany
worries she won't play basketball again.

In a phone interview, restaurant owner Estella Miranda said Brittany and a group of four or five
teens had approached the mesh-lined cage with the declawed lions near the restaurant.

MAN ATTACKED BY LION, SECOND IN FOUR DAYS
The Associated Press October 16, 1987
CRYSTAL BEACH, Texas. A 320-pound lion being trained for an exotic animal exhibition bit a
man on the chest in the second lion attack in the Houston area in four days, but a judge Thursday
ruled out putting the animal to death, at least for now.

Shawn Schilder, 20, of Port Bolivar suffered what were described as minor bite wounds to his
chest in the attack Tuesday. He was treated at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston and released.

The judge scheduled another hearing on the animal's fate for next Thursday.

The lion's owner, Mike Kujawa, had sought the reprieve, saying officials' efforts to have the lion
put to death for tests were "kind of like a witch hunt. I guess they are associating it with the other
lion incident." Galveston County Health District sanitarian, said Schilder had walked up to the
declawed animal to pet it and was then attacked in Kujawa's front yard.

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2-YEAR-OLD HURT IN BOBCAT ATTACK RECOVERING
AFTER FINGER REATTACHED

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) April 5, 1997
DALLAS - A 2-year-old boy who was mauled by a pet bobcat was recovering from surgery in
Children's Hospital to reattach a finger yesterday, while his mother and her boyfriend were under
investigation. Hospital officials would say only that James Ramos Austin was in fair condition
after his surgery.

Loki, the 17-pound male Texas bobcat owned by Carl Jean Pool, was destroyed by Dallas
County animal control. Tests on the animal yesterday revealed that it did not have rabies.

Pool's female pet bobcat, Tab, was confiscated by animal control and turned over to the Plano
school district's Living Material Center.

Dallas police spokesman Ed Spencer said Austin was attacked Thursday while playing at Pool's
house, which is just off the Dallas North Tollway near Frankford Road. His mother, Nancy
Sobiech, was in another part of the house. Spencer said Tab was locked in an upstairs bedroom
while Loki was free to roam the house. The bobcat had been declawed and his canine teeth
filed down.

MOUNTAIN LION THAT ATTACKED CHILD IS LOOSE
The Associated Press May 6, 1982
VALLEY PARK, MO - Police used helicopters and dogs Thursday to search for an escaped pet
200-pound mountain lion that attacked its owner's 5-year-old son several years ago.

The mountain lion, a 7-year-old male which has been declawed but retains his fangs, escaped
from his enclosure Wednesday night, said its owner, Sandra Hemman. She said the gate in the
eight-foot fence was standing open when she returned home.

Mrs. Hemman described the animal as "very shy and not aggressive," but told police it had bitten
her 5-year-old son so severely a few years ago that he required two plastic surgery sessions.

"Big cats just don't like small children," she said.

Charlie Hoessle, director of the St. Louis Zoo, warned that the cougar could be dangerous,
particularly if hungry. And Mike Biondo, an employee of City and County Tree Service, said he
had observed the mountain lion in his enclosure and wanted nothing further to do with it. "He's
jumpy," said Biondo. "He's not real friendly, let's put it that way."

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PET COUGAR ATTACKS MAN IN HIS YARD:
71-YEAR-OLD IS BITTEN BY CAT THAT FLED OWNER
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) March 23, 1994
BEECH GROVE - A 150-pound escaped pet cougar attacked a 71-year-old Greene County man
about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Sam Poe of the Greene County sheriff's office said.

Poe said Walter E. Bridges of Beech Grove, which is about 15 miles north of Paragould, found
the cat when he went to see what had disturbed his chickens.

"He just reached down and grabbed the leash that was on him and tied him to a birdbath," Poe
said. "He gave him some water and when he turned his back the cougar attacked him." Poe said
cougars instinctively attack anything that turns its back on them.

Bridges suffered deep gashes to his right shoulder and forearm from the cat's teeth. Poe said
Bridges went to the hospital and received treatment.

The 3-year-old cat's owner, Blake Faust, an air traffic controller at Jonesboro's municipal airport,
had declawed the animal and had it vaccinated, Poe said.

BOY, 4, HOSPITALIZED AFTER COUGAR ATTACK
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) May 4, 1998
A 4-year-old boy attacked by a neighbor's cougar early yesterday was "doing well" at a Dallas
hospital, animal control officials said yesterday.

Uriel Neri was listed in fair condition at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, hospital officials
said. Jennifer Casey, spokeswoman with the Dallas Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, said the boy suffered puncture wounds to a leg when the caged cougar bit him shortly
after midnight at the residence of the cougar's owner near Skyline Road and Lavon Lake in
Collin County, north of Garland.

The boy was taken to a Garland hospital and transferred to Children's Medical Center in Dallas.

The cougar was held at a McKinney facility yesterday morning and transferred to the Grapevine
Animal Control Center. Casey said the animal, a declawed, beige, 4-year-old male named
"Ranger," appeared to be in good shape.

Lawrence Hopkins, Grapevine's animal control supervisor, said details of where the animal will
remain during its quarantine will be sorted out today. Yesterday, the 125-pound cat was being
housed in a 10-by-8 roofed cage that the center typically uses as an outside run for dogs.

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DAD: WILDCAT, NOT VICTIM, WAS LOOSE AT PICNIC
The Miami Herald December 10, 2001
The father of a 7-year-old boy who was attacked by a captive serval during a company picnic
said Sunday the wildcat was unattended - not his son.

The boy, Matthew Tully, got stitches for the wounds on the back of his neck Saturday and spent
Sunday at his Boca Raton home recovering, said his father, Jim Tully.

The Tully family was attending a picnic at Tree Tops Park in Davie, thrown by PepsiCo
International, Tully's wife's employer. The event featured an animal exhibit by Miami-based
Pangaea Productions that included the 40-pound serval, an African wildcat.

Tully said Matthew was walking by the animal when it leaped "unprovoked," bit him on the back
of his neck and knocked him to the ground.

The serval, a 3-year-old male named Foster, was born in captivity and hand-raised, Oltz said.
Like the other animals in the show, Foster is declawed.

DECLAWED PET LION SHOT IN ESCAPE DIES DESPITE
VETS' EFFORTS
The Houston Chronicle September 19, 1996
CRYSTAL BEACH - A lioness shot by a sheriff's deputy after she jumped into the bed of a
pickup truck with a man has died.

Named Shanda, the lioness died late Tuesday at Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary
Medicine.

Shanda was a longtime house pet of Crystal Beach fish house owner Mike Kujawa. He was in
Las Vegas when a burglar apparently set the animal free late Monday.

A Galveston County Sheriff's deputy shot the declawed lion once with a rifle after she first
jumped a man, then followed him into a pickup truck bed.

A veterinarian repaired the bullet damage but Shanda never really came out of the sedation.

Kujawa was en route from Las Vegas to Galveston late Wednesday and unavailable for
comment.

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