A tiger is loose in Tennessee

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(12-04-2020, 03:20 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(12-04-2020, 03:14 AM)Shadow Wrote: Here one more article and this has a confirmed sighting too.

Quote: "KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials say a tiger sighting in Knoxville was likely a case of mistaken identity.

A spokesperson from the East Tennessee region said they received a call a couple days ago in the Kingsport area saying folks saw a tiger. An officer responded and the cat, which was still on site, was a bobcat."

"Taking everything into consideration, the lack of new sightings and the conditions the first sighting was reported in, It seems highly unlikely that there is a big non-native cat on the loose," Barry Cross, with TWRA, said."

http://chattanoogacw.com/news/offbeat/knoxville-tiger-sighting-was-a-case-of-mistaken-identity-twra-says-wildlife-tennessee

It's weird, they did not report this on the local news, and even deleted some of the posts about the incident from the Sheriff's Office FaceBook page, back when it happened.

Odd. Of course there is a little chance that some privately owned tiger cub had escaped and then found very soon, in case like this it´s impossible to be 100% sure unless there is a photo from original sighting. I think, that photos which I found are from case(s) after that original news. I don´t think that any real zoo would try to cover up this kind of thing, because they would be in huge trouble if someone would be attacked. But who knows if there are a lot of these privately owned tigers, some people have no sense of responsibility. Reply