Last weekend, Houston residents filmed a loose tiger roaming through one of the city’s neighborhoods. CNN reached out to Carol Baskin, an animal sanctuary owner and a central figure in the Netflix docu-series “Tiger King” to discuss the issue.
During her appearance on CNN, Baskin put some of the blame on Texas GOP Sens. Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn. Baskin stated that the two senators have failed in passing laws that would make large cat ownership illegal.
“You know, this has become kind of commonplace in Texas,” Baskin said. “And so I really hope that Sens. Cruz and Cornyn will sign onto the Big Cat Public Safety Act.”
“Because if they had, last year when the House passed this bill — the Senate didn’t bring it up for a vote — if it had passed last year, this wouldn’t have happened this time.”
CNN would report that the tiger belonged to Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, who is out on bond for a prior murder charge in Fort Bend County. Houston authorities would arrest Cuevas but have yet to find the whereabouts of the tiger.
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