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🗓️ 15 October 2020
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0:00.0 | The industry shown in Tiger King, what sometimes called the cup petting industry, really can't |
0:06.3 | exist without maternal separation. A captive Big Cat basically only has commercial value for a very |
0:14.3 | short amount of time from a little more than a month after they're born to about 16 weeks after they're born. |
0:23.2 | After that, they're too dangerous to let people manhandle them. |
0:27.3 | So you can't do this if you don't separate the cubs from their mothers |
0:31.8 | before they would be done weaning, before they would be done staying under their mother's protection. |
0:37.9 | So by getting a court opinion that says that maternal separation violates the Dangered Species |
0:42.8 | Act, that really is a basis to shut down this industry. Obviously, it's not going to magically |
0:48.7 | happen with a snappy of your fingers, but it's the case right now that there's a federal court decision that says that this |
0:57.2 | necessary precondition to this entire industry existing is against the law. And to get back to |
1:04.7 | the rest of your question, it's funny that you mentioned other litigation because literally later |
1:09.7 | the day that we went to collect those lions from |
1:12.5 | Jeff Lowe in Oklahoma, we announced that we are going to sue Jeff Lowe again under the Endangered Species |
1:21.3 | Act. Our prior litigation was about just the animals that he took from Indiana, now based on |
1:27.4 | his treatment of those animals, |
1:29.4 | and we know about his treatment of other federally protected animals, |
1:33.0 | we're going to launch a new lawsuit to hopefully take him out of the captive animal business entirely. |
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