New Indian Express story here.
With bonus kitty video!
Well done those staff!
[Boo] Kitty! [/Boo]
I hope they allow momma to attend the court proceedings to make a victim impact statement.
I was at the animal safari park in northern Ohio many years ago. They had a very young tiger cub a few months old they were caring for. I got to touch him a bit and pet the gorgeous little furry thing. It’s one of my fondest memories. Wild cats are very special animals, especially when they are kitties!
Dennis
Aye: well done.
I second this.
Here, Kitty, Kitty.
Who’s the cutest little carnivore whose ancestors actively preyed on mine for thousands of generations? Is that you? I think it’s you!
I wonder which orifice she would use? 
She would make new orifices.
Naw. If convicted, the perp should be locked in a room with Mom to have an earnest discussion on why it is wrong to kit(ten)-nap her offspring.
Unfortunately, many years later we are widely aware that cub petting leads almost directly to either parts farming/smuggling to other parts of the world or the canned hunting of tame big cats as trophies b/c they have become too large to appear as cubs (though they’re starved to stay small and weak so as not to bite hard).
This leopard cub will now live the rest of its life in captivity for no good reason; who knows what happened to its mother? Killed to steal her cubs? Forced into breeding yet another litter after this one was taken from her immediately? Beaten to death and taxidermied? All are equally likely.
There’s no way this cub could ever live on its own in the wild now; first and foremost, no one can teach it how to hunt or any of the other crucial lessons its mother would have demonstrated.
This kind of big cat cub smuggling happens all the time; we’ve had a few high profile cases in Texas and California in just the last year. I believe that abuse you do to animals should be done to you; put every person in the smuggling chain in captivity for the rest of their lives. Maybe that would make someone think twice about trying it.