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So as you saw in the Joe Exotic episodes,
they're actually pulling tiger cubs,
as mom's giving birth, away from the mom.
There's that one scene in
third or fourth episode
where they mentioned there's
14 tigers in this pen
and you see all of these
tigers just swirling around
waiting to get fed.
We saw a lot of cages
that were probably just pure metal cages
about 12 feet by 12 feet.
And that's the extent of their life.
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Well, the owners of that place
didn't want to be inspected.
They didn't want to have tigers
that would show that they're
not treating them right.
So the owners began to
disperse their tigers.
And Joe Exotic came down a couple of days
before the mandated
inspection and took 19 tigers
back to his place in Oklahoma.
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He gave up those 19 tigers.
And the agreement was those 19 tigers
would come to The Wild Animal Sanctuary.
So in November of 2017,
we went to Oklahoma
and brought back 19 tigers to our facility
where we're at right now.
So he agreed to start giving
up some of his tigers.
And he initially agreed to
giving up 20 more tigers,
which we went down and
got in December of 2017.
So that brings us up to 39
tigers that we got from Oklahoma.
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So now the 39 tigers we got from Joe,
they live in habitats once again,
anywhere from about five
to 20 acres, 10, 15 acres.
They have ponds that
they can go swimming in.
They have trees, they have water features,
they have hills and underground
dens, above ground dens.
They now live in social groups.
They have acres of land
besides a set of square feet.
They have an open sky above them.
They don't have metal bars around them
and they get well fed.
You'll see some of them
look a little well fed.
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Look past human drama to see the animals
that are behind the scenes
because they're truly voiceless.
They don't have a camera in front of them.
They can't speak into a microphone
or call their friend or anything.
They can never go back in the wild.
They depend on us for everything
because we brought them
into a captive situation
and they're absolutely,
totally dependent on us.
That's, just hopefully
people remember that.
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