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The three lions at Oakley's Prairie Cat Animal Refuge
Topic Started: Apr 4 2009, 06:21 PM (61 Views)
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OAKLEY -- The three lions at Oakley's Prairie Cat Animal Refuge are on their way to Detroit, where the zoo there will be their new home.

Two tigers, however, still are in cages just north of Oakley, across the road from the Free Breakfast Inn sitting alongside Interstate 70.

Law enforcement officers were on hand Tuesday for the transfer, preventing any sightseers from stopping in or along U.S. Highway 83 just west of the lion pens. Two females and a male were housed in makeshift pens.

The battle over the lions and tigers being housed at the Oakley facility came to a head in February when a resident of the motel was mauled by one of the lions after he stuck his arm into the cage. Bradley Jeff Buchanan suffered severe bites in the incident but returned to Oakley a few days later.

A day after the mauling incident, agreements were hammered out that called for Free Breakfast Inn owner Jeffrey Harsh to relinquish ownership of the lions and the tigers. In return, no criminal charges would be filed against him for keeping exotic animals without a permit.

With the help of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Detroit Zoo agreed to take the lions. They will replace the zoo's aging lions. Carnivore Preservation Trust east of Raleigh, N.C., agreed to take the tigers, a Bengal and a Siberian.

Initially, the Detroit Zoo had planned to pick up the lions Monday, but that schedule was delayed a day because of the travel time involved. Crews from the zoo left Hays on Tuesday morning en route to Oakley.

"They just picked up the lions," Harsh said Tuesday.

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