November 8, 2024, 5:37 p.m

A man dubbed ‘Britain’s Tiger King’ has been rushed to hospital after being attacked by his own big cat.

Terry Moore, 78, was attacked by a cougar at The Cat Survival Trust in Hertfordshire on Tuesday.

The big cat bit the leg before the police were called to the scene, the Sun reported.

He was saved without the cougar being killed.

Mr Moore was rushed to hospital and received emergency treatment for his serious injury.

Officers said in a statement: “Police were called to Codicote Road, Welwyn, at 4.04pm on Tuesday 5 November following reports of a medical emergency.

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“The officers intervened on the scene together with colleagues from the ambulance service.

“The incident involved a man and a caged large cat at the scene.

“The man, aged in his 70s, was taken to hospital by air ambulance with serious injuries and received specialist care. He remains in stable condition.

“The scene was quickly contained and there is no greater threat to the public.

“A spokesman for East Anglian Air Ambulance, said: “Anglia Two, our Cambridge helicopter, was tasked with Welwyn to assist the East of England Ambulance Service Trust with a man in his seventies who had suffered a accidental injury”.

Mr Moore was fined £14,000 and banned from keeping big cats earlier this year after it was found he did not have a license to sell visits at his centre.

The prosecutor at the trial found the center to be “untidy and dirty”.

He added: “Food preparation, storage and disposal was unhygienic, housing for some animals was inadequate or unsafe and large numbers of unvaccinated domestic cats were roaming, exposing trusted cats to the risk of disease.”

Moore, who set up the center as a charity decades ago, once said: “The relationship you can build with a cat is, in many ways, often stronger than the relationship you can build with a human.

“They have nothing to fear from you and you have nothing to fear from them.”

He has appeared on several TV shows, including with Paul O’Grady – and once brought a snow tiger onto the show for Katy Perry to hold.

His nickname is a reference to Joe Exotic, whose big cat center in Oklahoma was the subject of a popular Netflix show.