ANGRY TIGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 19

ANGRY TIGRESS

An employee of Soles’ International Circps, Mr Thomas Vennock, aged 32, while feeding the animals in the menagerie tent at Whangarei one night recently received a deep cut in the index "finger of his right hand from the daws of a Bengal tigress. Mr Vennock. who is an electrician attached to the circus, in the absence of the superintendent of the zoo. wa= feeding the animals in the menagerie lent, including a pair of Bengal tigers who had just finished their act in the performing cage. Agitated after their performance in the circus, the animals be came fiercer at meal times. When parcelling out their meat Mr Vennock auproached tnn dose to the cave and (he tigress which has a reach of three feet from the bars, thrust out a paw striking his hand, the sharp daw inflicting a deep cut in the index finger. After the wound had been dressed by a local member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade the injured man was taken to his carriage on the special circus train, fie was confined to his bed on Saturday, the wound eansinc • ■ great deal of pain