Victoria White: Awful circus of ‘Tiger King’ may be closer to home than we imagine

In Ireland, have no laws to protect the public from potentially dangerous wild animals, writes Victoria White.
Joe Exotic: Irish viewers may be surprised to learn we have poorer regulation of the keeping of wild animals than they do in Oklahoma, home of the star of ‘Tiger King’.
Joe Exotic: Irish viewers may be surprised to learn we have poorer regulation of the keeping of wild animals than they do in Oklahoma, home of the star of ‘Tiger King’.

In Ireland, have no laws to protect the public from potentially dangerous wild animals, writes Victoria White.

PANDEMIC historians will struggle to understand, in the future, why millions of people confined to their homes because of a deadly disease watched seven episodes of a documentary about “a gay, gun-toting redneck with a mullet” who bred tigers in Oklahoma.

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