NEW YORK - A pet tiger rescued from a Manhattan apartment after biting its owner will have a new home at an Ohio sanctuary with plenty of grass, trees and birds.
An alligator also recovered from the apartment was to be sent to an Indiana preserve, while their owner recovered from wounds from the 400-pound cat.
Antoine Yates, 31, was released from a hospital Monday night in Philadelphia, where he had fled. Police took him back to New York City to face reckless endangerment charges.
Yates told reporters after his arrival that he had the animals in his apartment because he wanted to show the whole world that we all can get along.
It wasn't about he was a sideshow or a pet or nothing
Yates said of the tiger.
He said the tiger, which was like my brother had grabbed him and ripped the flesh on his leg down to the bone.
My leg is not the problem he said. It's my heart.
A veterinarian examined the tiger Monday at Noah's Lost Ark preserve in Berlin Center, Ohio, 15 miles west of Youngstown. The licensed facility takes abused and neglected exotic animals and warns that wild animals can't be tamed.
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