Oklahoma zoo tiger mauls employees arm- by Paige Kutschall

"She has a long road of repairs ahead of her but this is a miracle," the zoos Facebook page says about the arm of of an Oklahoma zoo keeper. 

At about 10am the female zoo keeper got bitten by a tiger. "A female worker violated safety protocol and placed her hand inside (an) adult male tiger cage," read a statement from zoo owner Joe Schreibvogel. "She was wearing a large goose down jacket which got bunched up inside the cage wire not allowing her to get her hand back outside the cage wire fast enough and the tiger grabbed her hand pulling her left arm through a 4-inch-square hole."

Within two minutes, medics arrived and the women was airlifted to the OU medical center. The women was awake during the entire surgery and soon talking the phone as if nothing had happened. She has stated that the accident was her fault and she plans to return to work. 

"The tiger will not be put down and our thoughts and prayers are with the member of our staff that was injured," Schreibvogel said.

I think that while this is awful, the zoo keeper deserves the full responsibility. She knows what her boundaries are and neglected them. I completely agree with the zoos decision to keep the tiger. The tiger is and animal and doesn't know the right from wrong. I do think however that the zoo should change the fencing around the tigers cage to something that people cannot stick their hands through. 



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