So they're not at Safari?
This update just in from a friend: I had a wonderful time at the park on Sunday for Fright Fest. However, I was once again saddened when I walked by the Temple of the Tiger area and see it so empty & sad. I really miss those cats. So I decided to take one of the safari tour buses in the afternoon. While enjoyable, I was even sadder to NOT see the Temple cats there. The tigers I saw were NOT Balin, Hara, Kingda Ka and the others. Where are my cats? Our bus driver told us the trainers are no longer working there (which I already know) and that the tigers are still in the Temple, yet one employee said they are in the safari (as does the letter below you sent me, which is a letter from "corporate"). Are they locked up in cages indoors all the time? Those poor tigers must be so depressed! They had a wonderful life outside, interacting with the trainers who raised them, whom they considered their family, until corporate took them away by firing them for a silly reason. This show educated me (and the hundreds of thousands of others who saw the show) on how important it is to help preserve this beautiful animal! Over a century ago, there were more than 100,000 tigers in the wild. Now, it is estimated that there are fewer than 3,000. Due to poaching, habitat loss and scarcity of prey, all tigers are highly endangered and struggling to survive. Unless a solution is found, all wild tigers will become extinct. So what’s the problem with breeding the Temple tigers? You'd think the park would have welcomed some new cubs which could have been featured in the show. Instead those amazing trainers who dedicated their time to the cats were fired?! What's wrong with this picture?