10-21-2015, 02:31 PM
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Originally posted by Kapoho Joe
@shockwave - Please won't someone think of the children? Considering the graduation rates around here, it seems we could do with less field trips and more classwork.
@terracore - The outfit in Oregon is just a glorified puppy mill. He has been cited, fined and faced multiple criminal complaints that forced him to move to different states. Craig Wagner was cited as far back as 1990 for a Leopard and Tiger being chained outside in the open yard once again with no food or water. This was Wagner’s fifth citation from WI DNR. Nothing changed and the starving tiger killed a black leopard and ate it. In return, Wagner allegedly beat the cat with a two-by-four. Wagner was found guilty in March 1993 and received a nine month jail sentence, which was stayed by the judge. He was placed on probation for 2 years and ordered to pay more than $45,000 in restitution. Because Wagner failed to comply with the restitution order, a warrant for his arrest was issued in 1997.
Wagner then moved part of his organization to MN where he traveled and did cat shows for Renaissance Festivals until PETA protested that he housed cats inhumanely and he lost most of that work. There have been several incidences in MN that forced Wagner to move around the state three times. (check Hugo and Forest Lake, MN. records)
Then, he moved to OR and bought 10 acres to do his “Wildlife Safari”. This is just a small snapshot of this man’s lifelong abuse of big cats for profit.
Sound pono to you?
Don't think I said a word about field trips, so get down off your high horse there cowboy. Families do take their kids to the zoo you know, especially a free zoo.