Live Dogs Fed to Zoo Animals in Cuba

Our sister paper, the Riverfront Times, has a story about a private investigator who traveled  to Cuba and discovered live stray dogs are fed to zoo animals. Zoo employees acknowledged the practice: "Free food," said one.And a "diplomatic source" confirmed the practice, according to PI Joe Adams. The lions, he...
By Chuck Strouse
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Our sister paper, the Riverfront Times, has a story about a private investigator who traveled  to Cuba and discovered live stray dogs are fed to zoo animals.

Zoo employees acknowledged the practice: “Free food,” said one.

And a “diplomatic source” confirmed the practice, according to PI Joe Adams.

The lions, he said, “looked like shit.”

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Chuck Strouse is the former editor in chief of Miami New Times. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes and won dozens of other awards. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and has worked at newspapers including the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

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