We were stuck inside watching a gay big cat owner fight a tiger-print wearing big cat sanctuary owner. A catty character just won a game in Washington.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act was signed by the president on Tuesday. Private citizens are banned from breeding, buying, and transporting big cats under the legislation. The Senate unanimously passed a bill that restricts public contact with six species of animals.
The bill's journey was partially documented in the hit 2020Netflix mini-series "Tiger King." The owner of a big cat sanctuary was one of the main advocates for the bill. Baskin was filmed going to Congress to lobby for the rights of big cats.
The rivalry between Baskin and Joe Exotic, also known as Joe Exotic, was the focus of the show. According to the documentary, Baskin fed the body of his former husband to the cats on her property.
The types of facilities that the law will be the most damaging to are roadside zoos and private animal parks that allow petting. When the first version of the bill was introduced more than a decade ago, the number of these types of establishments was very high. According to Irby, there were more than 60 cub-petting establishments in the country back then.
Irby said that public awareness and Covid had an effect on closing a few of them.
Cub petting andcubs used for photo opportunities are considered the most damaging practices to encourage breeding and selling big cats since the babies quickly mature past the age when it is safe to interact with them. There are over 300 facilities in the country that have licenses to breed and show big cats, and they will have to install a 15-foot barrier between the public and the cats.
Maldonado-Passage was charged with hiring two men to kill Baskin and was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 2019. Baskin has given to political candidates in both parties since the series ended. In a video posted to Facebook earlier this month celebrating the bill's passage out of the Senate, Baskin, sitting in front of a tiger-striped and leopard-spotted curtain, said her years of advocacy had made her the target of "narcissistic, abusive"
She said that she is harder to intimidate and kill than she thought.
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