After PETA alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to a video posted on Facebook showing Zootastic Park owner Scottie Brown exhibiting an apparently distressed juvenile tiger at a public event, the agency cited the North Carolina roadside zoo for two violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
Zootastic Cited for Endangering Tiger at Festival
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind