White Bengal tiger imprisoned in FL circus,who killed trainer 5 wks ago,kills female circus owner,then is murdered by arriving police
Joe1orbit
There is FASCINATING and INSPIRING news to report today out of Florida, on
the animal murder front. This news is ultimately tragic, but serves to reaffirm
the TRUTH that animals can and do feel homicidal rage. Faithful readers of my
posts will recall that about a month ago I posted a news item concerning a
White Bengal tiger named Jupiter in Florida, kept imprisoned by humans at a
circus, who TURNED on his trainer and KILLED the man, mauling him to death.
Jupiter the 400 pound killer tiger was LUCKILY not murdered by you humans
after he committed this FIRST murder. In fact, the circus owners, being greedy
capitalists, decided to KEEP jupiter in the circus, despite the fact that he
had killed their trainer, a younger man that the circus owners, a husband and
wife, were very close to and fond of.
Guess what folks? Just ONE MONTH after killing his trainer, Jupiter the tiger
killed AGAIN! Yup, he SLAUGHTERED the FEMALE owner of the circus last night!
The 58 year old gal was hand feeding chicken NECKS to Jupiter when Jupiter
decided that a HUMAN neck might be TASTIER! All of a sudden, with no warning,
Jupiter ATTACKED, lunging for Doris's THROAT and quickly mauling her to death!
Cool! This tiger managed to harvest TWO humans, in serial fashion. Both humans
ACTIVELY ENSLAVED him and kept him locked in cages & forced him to do their
bidding and live as a slave. How BEAUTIFULLY appropriate that this one tiger
chose to and succeeded in killing TWO of his brutal oppressors.
I think that the fact that Jupiter killed his trainer 5 weeks ago, and then
killed the director of the circus last night, significantly increases the
likelihood that he was acting out of GENUINE, THOUGHTFUL, rage and hate,
instead of simply acting in an "instinctual" fashion. I would like to
congratulate Jupiter, for making the choice to attack human being, and for
succeeding in such a successful manner in KILLING two human beings, both of
whom were his ACTUAL ABUSERS.
Now we have some tragic news to deal with. Doris's husband, a narrowminded
animal enslaver who witnessed his wife being mauled to death by Jupiter, told
arriving police to SHOOT Jupiter to death. Police, who consider animals to be
subhuman, inferior, and worthless creatures, promptly complied and pumped three
shots into Jupiter, killing him. There is NO indication that Jupiter made ANY
type of aggressive movement towards anyone, after killing Doris. In a rational
society, Doris's husband should now be criminally prosecuted for "animal
murder", and ALL of the cops who fired shots at Jupiter should also be
prosecuted for animal murder, unless they can PROVE that Jupiter was OUT of his
cage AND was making some type of aggressive movement towards them, when they
fired the fatal shots.
Jupiter was making no such aggressive movements at all. She was simply pacing
back and forth near the body of Doris, who was obviously ALREADY dead. Police
used the invalid EXCUSE that Jupiter's pacing was not allowing medical
personnel to gain access to Doris, to justify shooting the tiger to death. What
an OUTRAGE. They should simply have waited and called for a tranquilizer gun,
rather than to murder Jupiter in cold blood.
This circus owner, the surbiving hubby, an animal abuser and now MURDERER,
will be allowed to RETAIN possession of all his circus animals, and keep right
on abusing and using them for capitalistic gain. What an OUTRAGE. He KILLED
Jupiter. He chose to claim perversely hypocritical vengeance against his wife's
murderer, by employing police as his DEATH PENALTY squad. A death penalty was
inflicted upon Jupiter, by your diseased society, last night. Jupiter was
murdered in cold blood, and I mourn his death while at the same time
celebrating his rare feat, of having successfully murdered 2 human beings, in
serial fashion, both of whom actively brutalized and abused him.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of today's United Press International news
wire:
ALACHUA, Fla., Nov. 14 (UPI) - The tiger who killed its trainer near Alachua,
Florida, five weeks ago is dead after killing one of its owners last night.
58-year-old Doris Guay was helping her husband Ron put Jupiter, a 400-pound
white Bengal tiger, into his night cage at Cat Dancers Ranch when the big cat
lunged at her throat.
Alachua County Sheriff's Sgt. James Troiano said she died instantly.
Ron Guay gave permission for the animal to be killed and deputies shot it three
times.
Doris Guay was holding food for the cat, but the reason for the attack is
unknown. Troiano said the couple considered the possibility of such attacks to
be an occupational hazard.
The Guays performed with several large cats under their professional names of
Judy and Ron Holiday.
34-year-old trainer Chuck Lizza, who they regarded as a son, was killed by
Jupiter October 8 when the animal was spooked during a cage transfer.
Guay still owns three leopards and two tigers and state Game and Fish
Commission Captain Barry Cook said it is Guay's decision whether to keep them.
The agency considers both deaths to be accidents due to keeper error.
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The following appears courtesy of the 11/14/98 online edition of The
Gainesville Sun newspaper:
November 14, 1998
Bengal tiger kills second time
By KAREN VOYLES and MIKE SAUNDERS
Sun staff writers
ALACHUA - Six weeks after killing the trainer who raised it from a cub, a
400-pound white Bengal tiger on Friday killed one of its owners, a woman who
had insisted that the tiger wasn't vicious.
Doris Guay was leading Jupiter, a 3-1/2 year old tiger, back to its pen Friday
evening when the cat lunged unexpectedly and bit her in the neck. She probably
died immediately. On Oct. 8, the same cat killed its trainer, Charles Edward
Lizza, 34, with a bite to the neck, in an incident authorities classified as a
"freak accident."
On Friday the cat was gunned down by law enforcement officers at the scene.
Doris and Ron Guay began performing as Ron and Joy Holiday in the 1950s. They
have traveled around the world exhibiting their exotic cats, but inevitably
returned to their Cat Dancers Ranch - a compound between Alachua and Newberry -
to rehearse and train.
On Friday, about 5:45 p.m., the couple were moving their big cats from outdoor
day cages into a trailer also used as a night kennel. Five of the six cats had
been put into their individual cages in the trailer; Jupiter was next.
Doris Guay began to hand-feed chicken necks to the tiger when, without warning,
it lunged and bit her neck, according to the account given by Ron Guay. The
attack was a total surprise, according to Guay, who immediately called 911.
"This was a completely unprovoked attack," said Alachua County Sheriff's Office
Sgt. Jim Troiano. "It was an accident. These were isolated incidents. Isolated
to this residence."
When paramedics and sheriff's deputies arrived, the tiger was pacing between
the back of the trailer and its day cage, preventing emergency workers from
reaching Doris Guay's body. It was then that Ron Guay gave deputies permission
to kill the animal, which, after the first attack, was spared after pleas by
some members of Lizza's family.
After that attack, Capt. B.L. Cook of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
advised deputies that if they ever needed to destroy a big cat, they should use
multiple shots from a .308 rifle and a .223 rifle.
Marksmen from the Alachua County Sheriffs Office SWAT Team approached the
compound and fired three shots, two in the tiger's head and one in the neck.
The animal dropped lifeless on its right side after the first shot, but two
more rounds were fired into the animal for safety's sake, according to Troiano.
Paramedics said Doris Guay probably died instantly. Her body was taken to the
Medical Examiner's office in Gainesville for an autopsy.
Jupiter's body was turned over to the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, and
was taken to UF by Alachua County Animal Control. A necropsy could be performed
Monday.
Shannon Robinson, who lives a couple of houses down the street from the Guays,
remembers first meeting the Guays two years ago. Robinson had just moved in and
the Guays came over to introduce themselves.
"They were really nice people. ... I'm really shocked that this happened,"
Robinson said late Friday. Robinson also said he is not concerned for his own
safety after the recent incidents.
"They're fenced up," he said, adding that stray dogs in the area bother him
worse than the tigers. "Before these past couple months there's never been any
problems that we've heard."
At the request of Troiano, two members of the Trauma Team of the Crisis
Stabilization Unit went into the house to help Ron Guay cope with this tragedy,
the second loss of a loved one in just five weeks.
The Guays began training exotic animals about 25 years ago. In an interview
with The Sun last month, the pair described their decision to start working
with big cats.
"We had never trained anything other than a toy poodle by then," Doris Guay
said. But Ron had a vivid dream.
"I dreamed that I was a trainer," he said last month, "and she was a black
panther and we would dance É and then in the cage would be a real panther."
Brian Geller contributed to this story.
kathleen
> The agency considers both deaths to be accidents due to keeper error.
I think people who work with wild animals become complacent and forget that lions
and tigers and bears are _wild animals_, NOT domestic, no matter how long they've
been around humans.
Too bad this tiger couldn't have been retired to a nice animal park.
And from the other article Joe1Orbit posted:
> Doris Guay began to hand-feed chicken necks to the tiger when, without warning,
> it lunged and bit her neck, according to the account given by Ron Guay. The
> attack was a total surprise, according to Guay, who immediately called 911.
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> "This was a completely unprovoked attack," said Alachua County Sheriff's Office
> Sgt. Jim Troiano. "It was an accident. These were isolated incidents. Isolated
> to this residence."
Keeper error. Takes a real dimwit not to realize that it's dangerous to hand-feed
a large wild carnivore. Heck, tigers in the wild become dangerous to humans.
Glad to see the tiger culled out some stupidity in the human gene pool - and sorry
it was killed after it did so.
Kathleen
Ellie
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Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Ellie