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07-15-2004, 11:43 AM
Woman who offered pig to lure tiger faces cruelty charge
By Scott McCabe, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Someone squealed on the lady who brought the pig.
The Loxahatchee woman who offered her pig as bait to capture Bobo the tiger will be cited for animal cruelty for hauling the 5-month-old porker in her trunk, according to Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve.
Linda Meredith drove from her home to C Road and Okeechobee Road with her Yorkshire pig Monday shortly after learning that the 600-pound tiger belonging to a one-time B-movie Tarzan Steve Sipek had escaped his 5-acre compound.
Meredith, wearing a tiger print and a gold lion medallion, pleaded with deputies to take the piglet named Baby by its hind legs or twist its ears to make it squeal and attract the hungry tiger.
Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve immediately ordered her staff to check into the incident, she said, even before complaints from animal rights activists poured in.
"I was appalled," Sauve said. "Carrying an animal in a trunk in 90-degree heat, where it's probably 140 degrees inside, is not acceptable."
Even pigs transported for slaughter are required by law to be moved humanely, Suave said.
An investigator told Meredith that she'd get at least a $91 citation, Meredith said. Suave said she'll meet with her counterparts in the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office today to determine the charges.
Meredith said her Cadillac's trunk is air conditioned and that she was going to eat the pig anyway when it got full grown. Meredith's upset that state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials didn't try to use a live animal to lure the exotic animal before shooting it to death Tuesday.
"I can't believe they have the gall," Meredith said. "I was just trying to help the tiger find his way back home. Apparently, it's not nice to be nice."link (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/local_news_045fce3ca30630b4004a.html)
I actually think that the lady was right. They should have used a live animal to bait the tiger instead of shooting it.
By Scott McCabe, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Someone squealed on the lady who brought the pig.
The Loxahatchee woman who offered her pig as bait to capture Bobo the tiger will be cited for animal cruelty for hauling the 5-month-old porker in her trunk, according to Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve.
Linda Meredith drove from her home to C Road and Okeechobee Road with her Yorkshire pig Monday shortly after learning that the 600-pound tiger belonging to a one-time B-movie Tarzan Steve Sipek had escaped his 5-acre compound.
Meredith, wearing a tiger print and a gold lion medallion, pleaded with deputies to take the piglet named Baby by its hind legs or twist its ears to make it squeal and attract the hungry tiger.
Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve immediately ordered her staff to check into the incident, she said, even before complaints from animal rights activists poured in.
"I was appalled," Sauve said. "Carrying an animal in a trunk in 90-degree heat, where it's probably 140 degrees inside, is not acceptable."
Even pigs transported for slaughter are required by law to be moved humanely, Suave said.
An investigator told Meredith that she'd get at least a $91 citation, Meredith said. Suave said she'll meet with her counterparts in the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office today to determine the charges.
Meredith said her Cadillac's trunk is air conditioned and that she was going to eat the pig anyway when it got full grown. Meredith's upset that state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials didn't try to use a live animal to lure the exotic animal before shooting it to death Tuesday.
"I can't believe they have the gall," Meredith said. "I was just trying to help the tiger find his way back home. Apparently, it's not nice to be nice."link (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/local_news_045fce3ca30630b4004a.html)
I actually think that the lady was right. They should have used a live animal to bait the tiger instead of shooting it.