Police looking for person who illegally kept lion cub, dumped her on side of road; the animal has since died

Photo: ZOO Palic, Milena Djordjevic

The Serbian police are looking for the person who kept a lion cub illegally, to eventually throw her out by the side of the road in Subotica, northern Serbia, Telegraf.rs has learned.

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According to information available to us, the case has been taken over by the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica.

Apart from keeping a lion illegally, the person should also be held liable for the neglect of the poor animal which ultimately led to her death.

Lioness Kiki is no longer with us, the Palic Zoo announced on Saturday.

"After 15 days of fighting, she lost her life's battle, despite our best efforts to help her recover. Kiki died on October 6, around 9 pm. We hope that such cases of abuse of animals by unscrupulous 'owners' will not happen again.

The case of Kiki the lioness has shown, unfortunately, that as long as there are people who buy wild animals for fun, without knowing the conditions needed for keeping them and being aware that they must have a permit obtained exclusively from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the (smuggled) birds will be arriving to our shelters with their wings cut so that they can't escape, with their beaks taped so that no one can hear them, animals of various species will be left without air in boxes to which they are confined (by the smugglers), even those like the little lioness," said the Zoo.

(Telegraf.rs)