Tiger's owner has faced questions in other attacks
By Associated Press
Published November 24, 2004
JACKSONVILLE - The owner of a 350-pound Siberian tiger that injured him after the cat went after a 14-year-old boy at a county fair has been questioned about four attacks involving animals from his Catty Shack Ranch and Wildlife Sanctuary, state documents show.
Curtis LoGiudice, 42, suffered minor puncture wounds Saturday when he stepped between the tiger and the boy at the St. Johns County Agricultural Fair. He couldn't be reached.
St. Johns sheriff's deputies had to shoot the tiger twice with stun guns to get it to release LoGiudice.
The boy, Grant Bradley, suffered minor injuries.
On Monday, officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission cited LoGiudice for misdemeanor cage violations, commission spokeswoman Kat Kelley said. Since 1999, LoGiudice has been questioned four other times by Fish and Wildlife. A cougar bit a child in 1999, and an elderly woman was bitten by a tiger cub in 2000, documents showed. A trainer suffered 23 puncture wounds from a cougar, and a woman sued LoGiudice after the same cougar attacked her, documents showed.
