Urgent Action Needed: Contact Your Federal Legislators To Support The Big Cat Public Safety Act Which Is Being Voted On Tomorrow!

Tragically, throughout the United States, thousands of big cats such as: tigers, lions, leopards, and pumas are kept in miserable, insecure, and unsafe conditions by irresponsible owners. The Big Cat Public Safety Act works to address this issue by banning the private ownership of these animals and prohibiting exhibitors, such as roadside zoos, from allowing public contact with cubs.

Sadly, these types of so-called zoos profit by charging the public a fee to interact with cubs and big cats for “selfies.” These facilities separate cubs from their mothers very soon after birth so they can be handled by visitors; it is an endless cycle of breeding to keep cubs available in order to make money off of them. Once cubs are grown and become too dangerous to handle, they may end up in the illegal wildlife trade, sold to other unscrupulous zoos or exhibitors, or to people who are unqualified to care for them as so-called “pets.”