Tiger King’s Carole Baskin Blasts Cardi B And Megan Thee Stallion For Using Exotic Cats In WAP Video

Tiger King’s Carole Baskin is not pleased with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion right now.

On Friday, Cardi and Megan released the music video for WAP which included them dancing and twerking in front of several exotic cats.

Carol spoke to Billboard and blasted the rappers for probably hiring “big cat pimps” like Doc Antle to use their exotic cats for the video.

Via Billboard

My guess is that most people won’t even see the Photoshopped cats in the scenes because the rest of it is so lurid,” Baskin, who became a household name after Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness docuseries aired, wrote in a statement to Billboard. She added, “I was happy to see that it does appear to all be Photoshopped. It didn’t look like the cats were really in the rooms with the singers. In fact, probably most of the rooms were Photoshopped in via green screen.”

“That being said, you have to pose a wildcat in front of a green screen to get that image and that doesn’t happen in the wild,” she pointed out about the scenes with a cheetah and a tiger in “WAP.”

It can’t happen in sanctuaries like ours where cats have plenty of room to avoid a green screen (or would shred it if offered access and could die from ingesting it). That tells me they probably dealt with one of the big cat pimps, who makes a living from beating, shocking and starving cats to make them stand on cue in front of a green screen in a studio. That’s never good for the cat.”

Baskin continued to bash the rappers for “glamorizing the idea” that rich people have tigers as pets.

“The worst part is that it glamorizes the idea of rich people having tigers as pets,” Baskin explained. “That makes every ignorant follower want to imitate by doing the same. After tigers are too old for pay to play sessions by people like Joe Exotic, Bhagavan Antle, Marc McCarthy, Mario Tabraue and others, they become a liability instead of an asset. While I think most are destroyed behind closed gates at that point, some end up being given away to people who want to have a tiger to show off. That never works out and the cats either die or end up dumped in sanctuaries or, worse yet, breeding mills. Either way, it’s always abusive to the cat.”

It’s good to see that Carole Baskin still has her fastball after Tiger King ended.

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