A circus owner who killed a female tiger he raised from a cub said the animal escaped to the streets of Paris after someone “maliciously” cut the lock on the animal’s cage. Eric Bormann, an owner of the Bormann-Moreno circus, fatally shot the 450-pound tiger named Mevy near the Eiffel Tower on Friday. Furious animal rights advocates posted gruesome photos of the dead tiger on social media and called for a boycott of circuses using animals. But one enclosure was open and the lock was cut on another when Mevy escaped, he said. “The love of animals is the heart of our profession.”All nine of the tigers of Bormann-Moreno were born in the circus.

Source: Huffington Post November 26, 2017 04:07 UTC