Man fined for keeping tiger in apartment
A MAN WHO kept a 400-pound tiger in his apartment in Harlem, NewYork, has been fined$ 2,500, and forbidden from owning animals for ten years.
Brian Jackson ,31, had bought the Bengal tiger, named Ming, when it was just a three-month-old cub.It had been living in his fourth- floor apartment for three years, eating raw meat provided by Jackson,who worked as a butcher. Neighbors had often complained of strange smells and loud noise. Jackson s unusual pet came to light because he had had to go to the hospital with a cuts and bites to his arm. The tiger had attempt to capture
And kill a cat that he also kept in the apartment. Police officers scaled down the outside of the building and fired tranquilizer darts through an open fourth – floor window. They removed the tiger , and also an alligator, to a New York animal shelter. A neighbor said, "We liked having Ming here .He was cool. My worry is that he will not like the country . He is a city cat , and likes jazz and hip-hop."
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