Big cats and rednecks don't mix
The story of Joe Exotic, a big cat owner who housed the largest number of tigers and lions at his roadside zoo in Oklahoma, USA and his rivals, other big cat owners.
You can't help but feel it's the animals that really suffered here and were exploited by Joe and others as a means to make a lot of money and make him famous (a life long dream it would seem).
It's a sad reality and portrays how humans selfishly lack ethnics/morals just to take a cute shot with a tiger cub and keep the trade going.
It's interesting that Joe originally set up the zoo to conserve tigers and eventually put them back in the wild. This never happens. The documentary highlights the crazy world of the big cat and other exotic animal trade in the USA, which is rife, how they are imprisoned in smallest cages, all for humans to marvel at. It also chucks in some rednecks and potentially, the worse kind of people you'll ever meet.
Hopefully this documentary will raise awareness that these kind of places should be shutdown, as animal abuse is rife and the government actually pass the well overdue 'Big Cat Act', so these animals can one day live back in their natural habitat and not in a cage.
Maybe if these people were properly educated they could get a real job and not have to exploit animals lifelong.
You can't help but feel it's the animals that really suffered here and were exploited by Joe and others as a means to make a lot of money and make him famous (a life long dream it would seem).
It's a sad reality and portrays how humans selfishly lack ethnics/morals just to take a cute shot with a tiger cub and keep the trade going.
It's interesting that Joe originally set up the zoo to conserve tigers and eventually put them back in the wild. This never happens. The documentary highlights the crazy world of the big cat and other exotic animal trade in the USA, which is rife, how they are imprisoned in smallest cages, all for humans to marvel at. It also chucks in some rednecks and potentially, the worse kind of people you'll ever meet.
Hopefully this documentary will raise awareness that these kind of places should be shutdown, as animal abuse is rife and the government actually pass the well overdue 'Big Cat Act', so these animals can one day live back in their natural habitat and not in a cage.
Maybe if these people were properly educated they could get a real job and not have to exploit animals lifelong.
- charlottelmarmstrong
- Apr 7, 2020