Have You Seen ‘Cocaine Bear’? Here’s a Real-Life Cocaine-Cat
March 13, 2023 11:30AM CDT
KEENESBURG, CO – APRIL 05: One of the 39 tigers rescued in 2017 from Joe Exotic’s G.W. Exotic Animal Park yawns while relaxing at the Wild Animal Sanctuary on April 5, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. Exotic, star of the wildly successful Netflix docu-series Tiger King, is currently in prison for a murder-for-hire plot and surrendered some of his animals to the Wild Animal Sanctuary. The Sanctuary cares for some 550 animals on two expansive reserves in Colorado. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
Zoo Caring for Wildcat Who Tested Positive for Cocaine
[pictured here is a captured tiger, which is bigger than the serval wildcat in this story]
If you thought the movie, Cocaine Bear, was pretty farcical, you aren’t alone. But here comes the real-life version of that kind of story, and a wild animal who really suffered.
The Cincinnati Zoo is currently taking care of a kind of “Cocaine Cat.”
A wildcat, named Amiry, now rests, and gets treated at the zoo. It had been found in a local neighborhood, with a broken leg.
Zoo officials say Amiry also tested positive for cocaine exposure.
Amiry is a serval, a type of African wildcat – which is illegal to own as a pet, in Ohio.
Zoo officials hope and believe that he’ll make a full recovery.
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