August 2, 2002 - AAS received three phone calls from very upset people who witnessed the exploitation of this tiger and a lynx at Burnaby's Brentwood Mall. We grabbed our camera and went immediately to the mall to verify what we had been told: that a lynx and a tiger were in cages barely larger than themselves for commercial purposes: Kim Carlton, the owner, charges $30 to have pictures taken with the tiger (of children too).

Because one of our contacts had previously been threatened the day before with having her ***camera and ***face punched by Mr Carlton, and mall security guards had been screamed at by Carlton to do something about the ***animal activists as they had promised, we had to be very circumspect and we were unable to get photos of the lynx.

The lynx was sadder than the tiger, if possible - in a tiny cage, three paces, turn, three paces, turn, over and over and over. It's eyes were huge and it was frantic looking as though it was being driven mad by the crowds.

According to a story in the Vancouver Sun, August 7/02, Carlton keeps the tiger confined under a deck on a city lot in Abbotsford.

At the time Carlton was displaying his tiger and lynx at the Brentwood Mall in Burnaby, there was a bylaw that could have been enforced by the City of Burnaby's animal bylaw enforcement contractor, the SPCA. But for some reason, it wasn't.