WFFT Saves Twelve Tigers and Three Leopards

[Nereus]

Not sure where to post this. The "people" responsible for the state of these animals should be thrown into the cages with them.
It is sickening to see animals treated in this manner. The WFFT is near Tha Yang in Petchaburi, run by Dutchman Edwin Wiek.
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WFFT Saves Twelve Tigers and Three Leopards from Tiger Farm after Historic Rescue Mission

https://www.wfft.org/tigers/wfft-saves- ... %20trading.

Twelve tigers and three leopards who have spent their lives in captivity have been rescued from a tiger farm in Thailand.

The undisclosed captive tiger facility in northern Thailand was visited by government officials on 16th December following legal action over alleged illegal wildlife trading. Veterinary teams and wildlife experts from Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) were on hand to rescue the seized animals, in the first part of the largest tiger rescue operation by an NGO in Thailand’s history. We are hopeful that 35 tigers in total will eventually be rescued from the farm.

The initial rescue was difficult and intense, with the first fifteen animals chosen on the basis of who required the most urgent medical care. Twelve elderly tigers and three ill leopards were selected, before being sedated, given initial health checks, and transported into cages that were loaded onto wildlife ambulances.

Emaciated, elderly tiger Salamas was among the first to be rescued. While most other tigers were sedated so that they could safely be moved into transport cages, Salamas’s worrying condition meant that the veterinary team advised against this due to the risk of her not waking up from the sedation.

Our rescue team instead spent hours gently encouraging the twenty-year-old tiger with food so that she would walk from her concrete enclosure into the transport cage. It was feared that she was too weak to walk, but eventually she gathered her strength and stumbled over to the cage. She was then able to be lifted to the specialist wildlife ambulance that made the twelve hour overnight drive to the wildlife rescue sanctuary. Although alarmingly skinny and with huge patches of fur missing across her body, rescuers are hopeful that Salamas will now begin to recover.

I am not going to post photos, they are disgusting. More at the link.......................

[PeteC]

I have no words for that, just disgust for those so called humans responsible for it.

[pharvey]

Absolutely majestic animals and both incredibly sad and infuriating to see them in this state. Hats off though to the WFFT and all involved in this rescue.

It's a disgusting fact of life, but poor treatment and cruelty towards animals by the type of scum involved at this "Farm" is hardly rare. Far stricter laws need to be implemented AND ENFORCED worldwide.