UPDATE: Sadly, Hoover passed away on October 7, 2019. He had suffered ongoing health issues and earlier in the year squamous cell carcinoma was removed twice from one front leg. After Hoover was observed limping, the Big Cat Rescue vet found what looked to be bone cancer in his back leg, and severe arthritis throughout all of his joints. With Hoover already being given much pain medication, they made the difficult decision to let him go. We are thankful to them for giving Hoover the best care and environment he had been denied for all those years in the circus. His memory will live on, and his story never forgotten, helping others who are still suffering in circuses as Hoover and his cagemates did.



The remarkable story of Hoover the tiger, saved by Animal Defenders International from a circus in Peru, where secretly filmed video shows him being trained with whips and sticks and living in small cage, and now living in natural woodland with his own pool, at Big Cat Rescue in Florida. Find out more and how you can help animals like Hoover: http://bit.ly/1QhNQJd