In the sense that its owner is looking to give it away gratis to a good home, rather than that it’s been released at random into the middle of a city or something. But potential feline foster carers be warned, this pussy will set you back circa £175 ($290) a day in food bills.
Sima Huijun from Danyang City in Jiangsu Province (try saying all that when you’re drunk) rescued, at a cost of £8,900 ($14,700) I might add, the giant cat last month from a circus in Henan Province, where he was attending a Buddhist school. Limping with an infected leg – a consequence of frequent whipping – the tiger had to perform in order to win chickens, which the spectators would buy for it, otherwise it went hungry. Pity it didn’t eat the circus master . . . .
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