Brian Werner Ferris, owner of Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary - Tyler, TX - owns 101 acres of land next to his fake tiger sanctuary

Sitaara the tiger is being kept in a chain link dog kennel and children are allowed to pet her through the fence. This is a USDA violation.

Employees at Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary utilize native Texas wildlife for petting interactions and photo opportunities.

Exotic Animal Rescue of Missouri, owned by Tim Bender, is an exotic animal breeder and dealer, not a rescue. He sells baby kangaroos.

An employee’s arm was nearly ripped off by a tiger Jan. 25. The incident happened at Tiger Haven, Kingston, TN.

Taking baby tigers home and playing with them does not promote conservation and it does nothing to help endangered animals.

On Friday, an escaped tiger cub was spotted in a backyard in San Antonio, TX.

From the very beginning of Tiger Creek Sanctuary Tyler TX, owner Brian Werner Ferris has shown just how slimy he is. In 1999, a terrible accident happened at the pseudo-sanctuary when a volunteer’s arm was nearly ripped off by a tiger. According to federal court documents, Werner Ferris refused to pay the volunteer’s medical bills after the attack because he claimed the tiger wasn’t his and he was housing the tiger for a business partner. Werner Ferris was relieved of all res

As we continue to research where Luna the white lion at Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary - Tyler TX came from, we have learned a breeding pair of white lions named Ngala and Motswari have resided at Animal World and Snake Farm Zoo in New Braunsfel, TX, since at least 2015. Animal World also has had 3 pumas at the facility since 2015. In order to produce a white lion, at least one of the parents has to be white or carry the recessive gene. In 2019, Ngala and Motswari gave birth to

Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary - Tyler, Texas “Lexie passed away after battling some sort of heart issue. She was not getting up to eat or even relieve herself. Sometimes we resorted to skewering venison on bamboo and pushing it through the fence up to her. On the morning she was put down, the keepers and I again tried to communicate her condition to the owner and manager and got no reply. She was twitching, and we knew something was very wrong. She didn’t respond to us or ackn

There is at least $1.6 million in corruption going on at Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary - Tyler, Texas. Tiger Creek CEO and owner Brian Werner took a payout of $1,670,324.18 from his nonprofit pseudo-sanctuary in 2014, claiming the money was to cover the years he didn’t take a salary, notably for “work performed from 1995-2013,” plus 7.5% interest accrual. According to a 2006 news article, Brian Werner took a salary of $48,900 in 2005. If Werner was taking a salary, and also to

A Wisconsin man who allegedly participated in animal torture is now opening his own animal rescue. Video posted to Roadside Zoo News in August shows Nick Biesner of Appleton attempting to drown a cat in an aquarium. Facebook comments indicate Biesner has a history of abusing cats and may have fed a cat the narcotic pain reliever oxycodone. Witnesses say Biesner starved a cat so severely it ate garage insulation and died, and Biesner allegedly abused a kitten by grabbing it by