Boomer caught, off to the zoo…
UPDATE: Boomer’s new home is Granby Zoo. Congrats on a new home away from Kraft Dinner and unedible daughters…
An Ontario man is demanding that a lion cub recaptured near Maniwaki, Que., early Thursday morning after an intensive police search be returned to him.
Dennis Day, who runs an exotic animal business about 100 kilometres west of Ottawa, told CBC News Thursday that Boomer the lion was raised in his home and still belongs to him.
The seven-month-old, 70 kilogram male African lion escaped from the Kitigan Zibi Algonquin First Nation reserve near Maniwaki Tuesday evening after being taken out for a walk, but was captured by Kitigan Zibi and Quebec provincial police officers early Thursday morning. Police and Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources officials announced Thursday that the animal is to be sent to the Granby Zoo, east of Montreal.
Day said he would not let that happen. “Boomer’s not going to a zoo. They’ve got to come through me before they do that,” he said, adding that he has talked to a lawyer about the situation. “I still own this cat. This cat was only being babysat.”
So Boomer was caught. The daughter is still alive and everybody’s happy.