A woman who allowed wild animals to freely roam her home where she live꧙d with her 14-year-old daughter has been charඣged with child endangerment.
Trisha Meyer, 34, was arrested last week after police discovered a large male tiger and three tigꦑer cubs, along with monkeys, a skunk, a fox and a cougar, in her Cypress, Texas, home while her teen daughter — who is homeschooled — was there.
The Houston Police Department was called to the home o🐲n Sept. 26 after Meyer tried to sell an exotic Savannah kitten to a California man for $3,000 but never gave him the animal after he sent her the money, according to papers filed in Harris County Court in Texas.
She has permits for the tigers but not foಞr her skunks and foxes.
In addition to the large male tiger, Meyer admitted to officers that the cubs were reaching the age where they could be dangerous, She also told police that her pet monkeys were “vicious” and that one of them attacks people, the paper said.
The animal enthusiast fled to Las Vegas with her tigers after the landlord kicked her out after being contacted by police. After authorities tracked Meyer to Las Vegas,♉ she fled to Pahrump, Nevada, where she was arrested on Nov. 7.
BARC Animal Shelter and Adoptions took the animals int𝐆o protective custody,
Following💖 her arrest, Meyer was being held o♕n $2,000 bail in the Nye County, Nevada, Jail.