796- Adopting Tigers And Ligers with Big Cat Rescue Owner & Activist Carole Baskin
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Carole Baskin (Big Cat Activist, Tiger King, Dancing with The Stars) shares a story about saving the lives of 2 tigers and a liger that were abandoned by their owner. Plus, Christine and Carole talk about the documentary Tiger King and her appearance of Dancing With The Stars. Listen!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Storyworthy. Today on the show, I'm bringing back a story from 2021 from Big Cat activist Carol Baskin. |
| 0:08.8 | I go to the side gate and push it open and I'm walking around inside this backyard area. |
| 0:14.9 | And now it's getting really dark and I can't quite see what's going on. |
| 0:18.6 | And there's like this 45 degree angle or steeper slope that I'm |
| 0:23.0 | walking down and it's muddy because it's been raining and I'm trying to get a grip on you know |
| 0:28.5 | like if there's three cats back here where the heck are they and I see chain link fencing |
| 0:34.5 | and so I'm making my way over to the chain link and I hear this |
| 0:38.6 | bang up on the fence right next to me. And this tiger is just looming over me. She has seen me |
| 0:47.0 | fumbling around in the dark and has come flying across her cage and thrown herself against this |
| 0:52.5 | fence. Today on the show, Big Cat activist Carol Baskin talks about raising tigers and ligers. |
| 0:59.7 | Stay close. |
| 1:02.1 | Hey, all you cool cats and kittens. |
| 1:03.8 | It's Carol Baskin and you are listening to Storyworthy. |
| 1:17.2 | Hey! Hey! worthy. And right off the top, what's the difference between a tiger and a liger? |
| 1:23.1 | A liger is a man-made creature from crossing lions and tigers to each other. |
| 1:28.5 | It would not happen in the wild because lions and tigers live on different continents. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:34.8 | That's unbelievable. |
| 1:36.1 | I mean, that seems like, yeah. |
| 1:39.0 | So people purposefully will take a lion, put it in an enclosure with a tiger, and they will mate? |
| 1:49.0 | If they don't kill each other. |
| 1:50.8 | I mean, it's hard enough even when you're trying to breed two lions or two tigers together that they don't kill each other. |
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