The Circus Animal Unemployment Crisis
A newfound awareness of the often bleak circumstances of exotic animals bred for profit has led to overloaded refuges
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Jumanji’s whiskers twitched as he sized up his visitors beyond the fence. Seconds later he leapt toward them, ears back, yellow eyes narrowed, fangs bared.
“He thought that was fun,” said Pat Craig, founder of The Wild Animal Sanctuary, who rescued the black leopard from a menagerie in Ohio. Jumanji was nursed to health on grasslands northeast of Denver, recovering from frostbitten ears and infections he got from lying in his own urine.