Feline Conservation Federation Stresses Handler Training and Facility Accreditation in Light of Two Missouri Incidents Involving Tigers

"These incidents accentuate the accent for all who plan with alien felines to be accomplished in assurance procedures, and to always use adapted measures to ensure the assurance of the public, workers, and the animals themselves", said FCF agent Dan Stockdale.

-- Tigers accept afflicted workers at two altered accessories in Missouri. An developed tiger jumped a fence and affective the lower leg of a Wesa-A-Geh-Ya altar volunteer. An agent at Predator World fell into a baptize basin central a tiger asylum as he was demography a photo for a visitor, and a tiger affective him and abject him out. Jacob Barr who had just started volunteering at Wesa-A-Geh-Ya is convalescent afterwards accepting his leg amputated. Dakota Remel, agent at Predator World, is in the hospital in abiding but analytical condition.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the individuals who were afflicted in these incidents", said Feline Conservation Federation (FCF) Director Dan Stockdale, a conservationist and alien abominable trainer.

FCF is an internationally accustomed alignment with a mission to conserve agrarian felines through preservation, apprenticeship and research.

"These incidents accentuate the accent for all who plan with alien felines to be accomplished in assurance procedures, and to always use adapted measures to ensure the assurance of the public, workers, and the animals themselves", said Stockdale.

The adverse escape of the amazon Tatiana from the San Francisco zoo endure Christmas underscores the actuality that tigers can bound out of a twelve-foot barrier. FCF archetypal regulations acclaim a minimum acme of twelve bottom for walls, with either a two-foot entering angle overhang, or electrified wire at atomic one bottom below the top of the fence.

The FCF accredits member's artful accessories that authenticate top standards of abominable care, husbandry, and aegis of the animals and the public. Accreditation administrator Kevin Chambers says, "We accept that this cold is capital in the operation of collections of felines, and that acceptable censor permits no college priority." FCF accreditation requires a three-foot recurve fence to anticipate escape, top ample artful habitats.

The FCF aswell works to advance babysitter assurance through its continuing apprenticeship classes. FCF developed a Basic Wild Cat Husbandry Course presented above the country. The next appointed chic will be accomplished by FCF certified advisers on Sunday August 31, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, at the Velda Rose Hotel.

"The adolescent agent at Predator World may accept anticipation it was safe to footfall central the tiger asylum for a cursory photo opportunity. However, tigers are actual active to changes in their ambiance and can acknowledge instantly to stimulus", says FCF agent Stockdale.

Witnesses say the agent slipped and fell. "Once you are on the ground, you are in danger. Even tigers that are duke aloft and acclimated to animal alternation can potentially see you as a toy, or worse yet, as prey," says Stockdale.

These contempo injuries are adverse reminders that acknowledged administration of ample felines requires able facilities, and handlers that exercise attention and complete acumen at all times. FCF encourages all alien artful owners, exhibitors and ability advisers to annals for the Wild Feline Husbandry Course to accumulate up to date with accepted husbandry techniques and assurance methods. "Education of the babysitter is the key to safety", says FCF admiral Lynn Culver.

Captive administration programs are capital to ensure the adaptation of the tiger. Experts acquaint that the agrarian tiger will about absolutely become abolished from its accustomed ambiance aural the next 5 to ten years.