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Ross Kemp- On The Trail of UKs' Tiger Kings who keep predators legally in their homes

Ross Kemp is to front a new ITV series entitled Britain’s Tiger Kings - On The Trail With Ross Kemp as he examines the owners of big cats in the UK

Daily Mirror UK, 26 MAR 2021.

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Ross Kemp with one of a collection of 5 rare Bengal Tigers at Heythrop Zoological Garden in Oxfordshire

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Ross Kemp looks on bewildered as Reece Oliver kisses his pet lion on the lips.

The big cat, along with a lioness, live in Reece’s back garden... in a Nottinghamshire village.

“This lion loves me, he is obsessed with me,” Reece says, as the lion licks his face through the bars of a cage.

Reece, who also owns a puma, a big cat native to North America, went on: “I rescued them from eastern Europe, they were going to euthanise a lot of the cats and asked did I want the lion cubs?

“I brought them up like they were my children, from 10 and 11 days old.”

They belong in the wild, but these lions are among the 4,000 dangerous exotic animals living in Britain’s homes and gardens today.

Ross meets Britain’s real-life “Tiger Kings” in a new two-part ITV series to find out what makes someone want to own a wild animal.

“I didn’t think it was possible to privately own a lion or a tiger in this country,” Ross says. “I’ve found it truly eye-opening and disturbing to discover how easy it is to source one and get permission to keep it legally.”

Under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, anyone in Britain can keep a dangerous wild animal as long as they obtain a licence from their local authority.

The licensing process requires the applicant to demonstrate that their animals are properly contained to protect the public. But animal rights charities argue this does little to ensure the welfare of the animals or the *protection of the owner and anyone else visiting the property.

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Reece himself admits it is “too easy” to obtain a dangerous animals licence.

“You just need to know people out there,” he says. “There’s an abundance of animals kept in eastern Europe which are too easy to get. All you have to do is tick a few boxes.”

But he adds: “You need to have experience, you need to know what you’re doing. A lion isn’t just for Christmas, it’s for life.” When Ross quizzes Reece about the ethics of keeping wild animals as pets, he says they would be worse off without him.

It’s an attitude the presenter found from owners across the board, who were all fiercely protective and unwilling to give the animals away to a zoo or sanctuary.

“They are better off here with me, I’d never give them up,” Reece tells him.

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“If you take those lions away from me or from the setting they know, it is going to be stressful for them. They’re happy here and love me... when I’m not there they kind of miss me.”

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