The New York authorities have brought a Puma weighing around 36 kilograms from an apartment in the Bronx. In addition to the police and city officials, employees of the Bronx Zoo and animal rights activists from the Humane Society of the United States took part in the action, as the rescuers announced in a joint statement on Monday.
The owner voluntarily “handed over” the eleven-month-old big cat to Sasha. The young animal was first examined by veterinarians at the Bronx Zoo and then taken to an animal shelter in the southern state of Arkansas that looks after neglected big cats.
Owner wanted to get rid of Puma
Kelly Donithan, head of the emergency team at the Humane Society, explained that the cougar was “somewhat lucky” because its owner had realized that wildcats had no business in an apartment.
Sasha isn’t the only big cat the New York City authorities have dealt with. In 2003, police removed a 425-pound tiger named Ming from an apartment in Harlem. A year later, an eight-year-old boy on Long Island was attacked by his father’s leopard. (AFP)