MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) β Ohio says the tiger cub being used to continue a high school football team’s live-mascot tradition this season stays at an out-of-state facility, meaning it doesn’t quite fit under the exemption created for it when the state tightened rules on possession of dangerous animals.
The exemption was meant to let Massillon Washington High School and its boosters have a tiger under certain restrictions. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Agriculture says the caged cub displayed at the season opener came from and returned to an out-of-state facility licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She wouldn’t identify the facility Wednesday.
She says the facility indicated the arrangement with Massillon boosters would continue through the season, so officials are discussing and evaluating it to ensure it meets legal restrictions.
