Fatal incidents involving captive big cats in the United States in the last decade.
2008:*Broken Arrow, Okla. - A 32-year-old man is killed while feeding a 1,000-pound liger (lion-tiger mix) at an exotic wildlife sanctuary.
2008:*Sandstone, Ariz. - A woman who owned big cats for Hollywood movies is killed and partially devoured by one of her severely underweight tigers.
2007:*San Francisco - A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes its enclosure and kills a teenager.
2007:*Denver - A zookeeper is killed by a jaguar in the doorway of the exhibit.
2006:*Duxbury, Minn. - A 500-pound Bengal tiger kills a 52-year-old woman on her property.
2005:*Altamont, Kan. - A 17-year-old girl is killed by a Siberian tiger while posing for her high school senior portrait.
2004:*Elizabethtown, Ill. - A man is apparently changing the bedding of his pet lion's pen when he is mauled to death.
2003:*Millers Creek, N.C. - A 10-year-old boy is pulled under a fence and mauled to death by his aunt's pet tiger.
2003:*Hennepin, Ill. - The owner of an exotic cats sanctuary is killed by one of two tigers he releases from a building into a penned enclosure for exercise.
2003:*Adair, Okla. - A handler at an exotic animal park dies after a tiger rips off her arm as she leans against the cage.
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