Declawed Tiger Cub Found Roaming The Streets In Southern California Fun Love
A young Siberian-Bengal tiger was rescued in a rural California town after it was found wandering the streets. It has been transferred to an exotic animal sanctuary and is relatively good health.
Residents of the Southern California city of Hemet are used to the rural quiet life in an arid landscape, so when a 3-month-old tiger cub was found roaming the streets, some could hardly believe it.
CBS Los Angeles reported that the declawed baby Siberian-Bengal tiget, which measures about 2 feet long, was first spotted roaming through the town of just over 80,000 people and was transported to the Ramona Humane Society in San Jacinto.
Shortly after the initial rescue, Joel Almquist, the executive director of the Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary in Phelan, California, received a call from a warden at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife that a baby tiger needed to be picked up in Ramona.
"At first I thought it was a joke," Almquist told BuzzFeed News. "I laughed, but he said it was serious, so I drove down there."
Almquist has worked with tigers for more than 20 years, and said that he normally rescues them from people who purchased them legally in other states, brought them to California, and then lost their homes and had to turn the tigers over to ensure their well being.
But this was Almquist's first time working with a tiger cub.
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