The Tragic Tale of Tony the Truck Stop Tiger

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By Earth Island JournalOct 23, 2017, 1:56 pm93 pts
By Stephen Wells For more than six years, the Animal Legal Defense Fund fought tirelessly to save a tiger named Tony from a cage in the parking lot of a Louisiana truck stop. Sadly, we received news last week that Tony had died of kidney failure after spending 16 years confined to his cage, living and dying as…

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