Circus Lioness Who Was Painfully Declawed Seemed Sure to Die, Until Rescuers Give Her a New Life
Sasha the lioness once lived a cruel life in captivity with a circus in Guatemala, where she was starved, beaten, overworked, and kept in a tiny cage.
When she and 5 other lions, and 12 tigers, were rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI), veterinarians thought Sasha was facing certain death. But she’s defied all of their predictions and is now recovering after a miraculous surgery.
Daily Mail reports that at the time of her rescue, Sasha was in horrific condition. Not only was she kept in a tiny cage for six years, fed scraps, and forced to perform three times a day, but her owners artlessly declawed her, causing significant injury to one of her paws.