Pets in the paper
Check out these animal stories in The Oklahoman today -
- - Despite killing man, big cat to stay alive. (Broken Arrow)
- - Closings force grehounds to retire. (National)
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Chimp nurses tiger cubs
Far be it from me to engage in hyperbole, so I won’t say this is the cutest video ever. But I dare you to find a cuter one.
Seems a 3-year-old chimpanzee has learned to help her keeper nurse two young male white tiger cubs in Florida. If there is anything cuter than tiger cubs, it is a chimp nursing tiger cubs. Enjoy.
- Staff Writer Bryan Dean
Pets in the paper
- - Big cat injures sanctuary volunteer. (Broken Arrow)
- - Aquarium in Jenks displays fish fo the toothy variety.
- - A doggone wacky holiday in Norman.
- - Amid financial crisis, pets still faring well. (Nation-wide)
- - Disabled cat ready to get rolling in Norman.
- - Pet Tales: Goofy tale. (Oklahoma City)
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Tigers use training to escape flames
Three Siberian tigers, using their circus training, jumped over a wall of flames to safety recently after the truck they were riding in caught on fire in Germany.
The tigers were trained to jump through hoops of fire and 
used that experience when their ringmaster ordered them to jump over the wall of flames in the truck, said circus owner Daniel Renz.
Rescuers saved three other tigers left behind in the 43-foot wagon during the fire. Circus workers coralled the tigers on the highway and police closed the road to traffic.
Renz said one of the tigers suffered some smoke inhallation, but the other five were in good condition. The circus was scheduled to go on as planned Thursday, but the six tigers involbed in the fire will get a rest while some of the show’s other tigers perform.
Renz said an overheated suspension system on the truck is suspected as the cause of the fire.
- Staff Writer Bryan Dean
