You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Animal advocates and city officials condemned the ownership of big cats as pets: Ellen Whitehouse, who runs the sanctuary where the tiger is now being kept, says all but one of the 22 tigers at her sanctuary were kept as pets, including one who was kept chained in a basement.
Rest in peace, Ming and much peace to Antoine Yates. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Next Post Do Black lives matter in regards to gentrification? Please add me to your email list Like Liked by 1 person. At the time, neighbors told authorities that they were not surprised to learn about the mini-zoo in Yates' apartment. An officer abseiled down the side of the building to shoot the tiger through a window with a tranquilizer dart.
Ming grew to be a pound adult tiger - but the beast had never left Yates' small apartment, which caused him initial unhappiness when he was taken to the Ohio sanctuary. They told officials about hearing roars and reptile sounds, and that there was a strong odor coming from the apartment.
After being charged with reckless endangerment, Yates told a TV crew at the time: 'I take this from my heart, I feel for animals so much.
A tombstone was also erected, with the engraving, 'Ming, Tiger of Harlem'. He is currently serving a year prison sentence for 17 counts of animal cruelty and for conspiring to murder his arch nemesis, Florida-based big cat lover Carole Baskin. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
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When the first responders arrived on the scene, they found Yates had been injured by Ming, his fully grown pet tiger. On further investigation, police found an adult alligator imaginatively named Al in a separate room of the large apartment in a block in Harlem.
The film follows Yates as he is driven through his neighbourhood in the back of a yellow cab, just in case you were wondering where the documentary was set. He narrates his story to a camera that is stationed just out side of the passenger side window. There is a tease that we will get to see some archive footage of Ming and Al in their home of , but this is sadly not the case. It was a very different setting from the one in which Ming had been raised. Yates brought Ming back to his apartment and cared for him there, first bottle-feeding him, then spooning him pureed meat and finally lugging home 20 pounds of chicken parts each day to satiate his hunger.
Yates also built Ming a sand pit in his bedroom. Speaking with the Post , Yates said that the great predator was in fact very affectionate. He also a baby alligator, which eventually grew to be nearly 6 feet long and lived apart from Ming in a fiberglass tank. But this illicit menagerie came to an end after Yates brought home a more traditional house pet: a rescued cat named Shadow. At the hospital, Yates told doctors that he had been attacked by a pit bull, but they suspected a much larger animal was responsible.
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