Hello Again Cyberworld!!
Posted by Trevor Gordon on October 17, 2007
This will be my first post for this site I guess you can say. My life has been very interesting. About 4 months ago there was a traveling exhibit that came through Quincy and was at the Quincy Mall. They travel with their exotic cats offering the chance to have your picture taken with a baby tiger, and supposedly trying to raise as much money as they can for their new wildlife center in Atoka, Oklahoma. They were looking for travelling help and I inquired and got hired. They travelled all over the country to malls and fairs and such. I was telling the public that they have 110 acres and they are trying to finalize the deal on this land and that they are going to build the largest tiger habitats in the country. I was told to say that the San Diego and Disney Wildlife centers have about 1 to 2 acres for their exotic cats. But that is all lies. I looked it up when I got home and talked to several different people. They have about 10 acres per enclosure, depending on the size of the pride or group of cats, and also on the breed of animal. I didn’t find out until later that everything that they were saying and what I was telling the public were all lies. They lie for the sake of entertainment. Everything is a lie and they don’t think that the will catch up with them in the end but it will. For instance, the bossman Jay Riggs, tells us that about 25% of all of the white tigers in the world were born at his facilities. He says that all of the white tigers at Tiger Island are his. He says that all of the white tigers at the Disney Wildlife center are his. LIES!! ALL LIES!!
One of the lies that he tells the public during his educational show is that the white tigers were extinct for about 200 some odd years and the first one was spotted in 1951 and captured and became the grandfather to all white tigers today. I do not dispute that, but there were white tigers spotted and captured before 1951.
There were 8 cases of white tigers in Rewa State between 1909 and 1959. These were recorded in palace diaries and included a 2 year-old male captured near Sohagpur in December 1915 and kept for some years in captivity. The Maharajah Gulab Singh of Rewa captured this young male white tiger in December 1915 and it lived in captivity at his summer palace in Govindgarh until 1920 after which it was stuffed and presented to George V as a token of loyalty (it may still be in the British Museum today). HE Scott of the Indian Police described that animal in December 1920 in a Miscellaneous Note in the ay Natural History Society’s Journal. There was also a fine specimen of a white tigress in the Calcutta Zoo in 1920. The Maharaja of Rewa shot a white tigress in 1937. In 1946 a pregnant white tigress was shot by the Administrator and the six unborn cubs were described as white though this was not substantiated. The Maharaja shot a white tiger in 1947, the last white tiger to be shot in the Rewa area.
The earliest known photograph of a live white tiger comes from the Journal of the ay Natural History Society (JBNHS), from pg. 932 from No. 4, Vol. XXVII (1921) about the white tiger captured by the Maharaja of Rewa in 1915. The article was published in 1921 although the tiger died in 1920. An earlier photo of a white tiger in the JBNHS is of one shot around 1910 as part of the article “An Albino Tiger From The Central Provinces” and is briefly referred to in this later article.If the white tigers were extinct for about 200 some odd years, and the first one was captured in 1951, how is all of this possible?He also beats his wife Jamie Palazzo. She is so scared that she wont say anything. She has battered wife syndrome. He doesn’t leave marks that I can see, but he beats her because I saw him do it. He told me that he did it, but then told me that he was joking. They neglect their children. They don’t watch them, and then when they can’t find their children, the bitch at the employees for not watching the children. He threatens his employees all of the time. Everything that he says and does is a lie. And it is hard to determine what is truth and what is lies that comes out of his hole excuse for a mouth.
Jay Riggs thinks that he can scare me into doing whatever he wants me to. He threatens his employees into making them do what he wants them to, but not me. No! No! I wrote a blog telling the truth, and he told me to remove it or take out their names and expects me to do it. HA!! I no longer work for him, and he doesn’t scare me. I didn’t change anything or remove it. He can threaten all he wants to. He says that if I don’t keep my mouth shut about what went on, he will tell the police that I was fired for use, and that I stole all kinds of merchandise from his exhibit and was selling it on the Midway of the Oklahoma State Fair Grounds. I didn’t do it cause he doesn’t scare me anymore. When I quit, I was in Oklahoma City and I was stranded. I was staying in a hotel with 2 of the other employees, and he wouldn’t let them take me to the hotel. He told me that I can find my own way there. The hotel was 4 miles from the State Fair Grounds. That was bull. Any ways, this is my first blog post for Politics and Youtube in Review. My next post will be here pretty soon.


Stacy said
I use to work for this FRAUD, he travels around the country with up to 14 tigers in a horse trailer, He does not even own land with a cage on it. When he is done using the cats to make money with them he pawns them off on other parks and sancturaries. I know for a fact he buys all the baby tigers and most of the white ones come from Amarillo Wildlife Refuge in Amarillo TX. He gives $5,000.00 for a single cub but turns around and makes 60,000.00 on it taking photos and lieing to people that he rescues them. he makes his employees who are not trained to walk into a horse trailer to feed 14 cats at one time babysite all of his kids. Someone is going to die on his crew as he cant keep help and it is so dangerous to have untraided people feeding big cats in a horse trailer. Also when we trvel from place to place the animals go hours without food and water. Some times we drive all day and night without stopping to check on them one time. Never do they call a vet to help a sick one. IF you ever see Great Cat Adventures out in the public, do not support them as it is all LIES
animal_voices said
I think I spoke to you at The Shoppes at Grand Prairie, Peoria, IL.
Thank you for posting this blogg. I know you tell the truth.
Billy said
It’s interesting to read this… I am in the process of finding a facility where I can take my wife — she always wanted to pet a tiger. The place you used to worked seemed like the ideal place to go. This doesn’t seem the case anymore. Do you have any suggestions as to where else I can go? Thanks
Melissa Medina said
I have had experiences with Jay also. I have seen him lie about the ages of cats to prolong public contact. I have seen him offer more hands on work with the tigers to the young females willing to join him in the evening.
Panther Paul said
Hey hey! more folks that don’t like Jay Riggs. Yeah, I worked for him for two summers. he actually punched me in the face. Felt really good, but seeing as I was about 6000 miles from home, I did nothing about it until I could get my ass closer to home and then leave his damned hell hole.
He lost custody of all his old cats and his wife with three kids and his other children from other wives (True story) And two now from Jamie.
The BEST and I mean the BEST thing is that once when I was working on something underneath his precious motorhome, I dropped a wrench on his face and it split his lip, so if you see the scar under his nose on his lip, that was me! WOO! (Hey, it wasn’t on purpose, but I’ll take credit)
The cats he works with are lovely, and I am sure someone somewhere loves them (for making cash) But yeah, hope Riggs gets shut down, and if I have some extra free time I’ll just keep telling the health department where he travels and the TAX department where is is too. (He never claimed taxes at all ever unless the state fair made you pay taxes before entering. WHICH he then notes and then never goes to that fair ever again, *cough-Iowa-cough cough*
I’m going to raise cats later in life, but not to whore around like Jay. You’re all welcome to give me a shout at my email. Jay, you too if you read this. I dont care.
paulisaway~at~yahoo~dot~com
(And no, Jay does not provide more hands on contact for females willing to JOIN him in the evening. I will say Jay’s a bastard, but he’s not that low. Every SCRATCH on any employee is a potential bad word against him, he usually let males work with the cubs since they were stronger and could handle an ornry cat. I nearly lost a finger to a cub!)
Panther Paul
john said
The funny thing is you sound like another Big Cat Rescue nut job. Where do you think any so called accredited sanctuaries started making there money?? I suppose they just created a name and started taking in tigers than able to pay thousands thats right thousands of dollars to create a website then able to feed and care for all those cats while they patiently waited for the word to spread about donations. WRONG they all started off as pets of some kind or wildlife exhibits that evolved into sanctuaries. And they all have there function. The big difference is places like Big Cat Rescue wants to be the only ones in the game. And they are quite effective at making everyone else look bad with a 10,000 free ad budget from google and creative ways of linking everything that happens in the world to there website and blog panels. They are a fraud worse so than the smaller sanctuaries because most of there cats aren’t rescues. And now they clamp the animal rights hounds on everyone that owns an exotic cat or does a wildlife show did you know they have shows just because there at there facility its ok though. They have the funds and donations set up to not have to rely on shows anymore or to take pictures with babies yet they still have night time feeding tours and sleep overs etc. etc. They are the biggest exploiters of Big Cats around. And I am sure that one of there supporters that have read her articles of origin “which if you think is the whole truth your are crazy” will tell you she even says it on her site. Ya she only says it since she got busted on the news and now tried to down play it and use it to her advantage. I’m so sure her husband just ran away from his millions one day out of the blue just took off leaving all his money with his wife that was half his age. And I got some swamp land to sell you with loads of gold under it. And that all her 150 plus cats are rescues buy that one and I got a cruise liner full of oil you can have for free too. There is no place that has come across such diverse amount of species from rescues. They were purchased some of the animals are very rare and cost thousands of dollars notice she doesn’t have a cheetah and shes been trying to get one for years and can’t. She also said she wouldn’t want anything that could be used for display such as white tigers or ligers yet she has ads all over the place for donations on her recently obtained white tiger and liger. You sir have been duped and have not done your homework. Please do not offer big cat rescue as the premier sanctuary location for big cats. There are plenty of sanctuaries in Florida that would take in these cats. And trust me they wouldn’t throw up a big neon sign on you tube crying for donations when they already rake it in on tours. They use there wildlife shows to support the other animals on the sanctuary. Shows how little you really know about the business. Many accredited sanctuaries have shows. In fact respond back to me about a place that does not offer a show, tour, or any other method besides strictly donations and have no contact with the animals living on the sanctuary that is no contact at all viewing, handling etc. Then you can pitch your wines about “REAL” sanctuaries which has been BCR propaganda all the way.
I really would like to see this miracle place that runs on a show string budget feeding there 150 animals without it. Even the parks in Africa where the animals are so called “free” which they aren’t they are protected by money raised from tourism and then that money is used to hire people with guns to keep poachers from killing them. It’s a big wildlife show dude. So its cool that you are trying to help captive animals in bad conditions and stop over breeding but don’t toss a name out there of a so called real sanctuary namely Big Cat Rescue who lies, slanders, and makes more profit then that little photo booth sanctuary you were babbling on about in one day than that place makes all year off of the 150 caged animals with almost every species and sub-species they could get there hands on it makes me want to puke. And if you look up big cat rescue you will not find information because she has buried it with her generically named sanctuary thus the name change from wildlife on easy street which would be a nightmare for her in the ranking with the negative keyword implications that could be used. She has tagged everything with big cat rescue. How about typing in carole baskins lewis into your search and see if you don’t find something more interesting. Like the usda sheets of the origins of her cats. News broadcast and complaints from volunteers about breeding on the property. No doubt that the staff at BCR does a fantastic job of taking care of the cats. But you are crying about exploiting these animals then suggesting that this place is any different when it is not. NOT AT ALL. In fact they are trying to prevent any other place from being there competitor and in some very tricky fashion. They even have lobbyist in there pockets too. It is very sad when a place can become to big and wipe out there competition but hey that’s the American way. The best burgers in town in coconut grove was a small burger stand the size of a hot dog cart called martin burger. That was years ago. Now its johnny rockets and fuddruckers. Get what I am saying they all sell burgers just someone had more dough and was able to crush there competition doesn’t mean they are better. Don’t get caught up in carole baskins pr and plight to save the species see if she wants to purchase land where these animals thrive and set it aside for a reserve. Then I can tell you they are doing some real good. Stuffing them in a circular cage actually smaller than most places I have seen and charging admission is a zoo with a fancy name on it.
Jake Leonard said
You can email Trevor at thdrui@aim.com and ask him that question.