Local Shelter Rescues Lion Cubs

POSTED: 9:54 am PDT April 24, 2007

UPDATED: 10:58 am PDT April 24, 2007

SAN DIEGO -- Officials with a local exotic animal shelter said they have rescued three young lion cubs.

Images: Cubs Find New Home

The cubs were 28 days old and weighed less than 10 pounds when they were taken in by the San Diego County-based Lions Tigers and Bears.

"We could not sit back and ignore the plight of these helpless cubs," Lions Tigers and Bears spokesowoman Bobbi Brink said in a news release.

The shelter took responsibility for the cubs from Louisiana Big-Cat rescue. Officials with that organization said the cubs were born after a pair of failed vasectomies in two of their lions.

According to shelter officials in Alpine, they took custody of the cubs after getting emergency clearance from California Fish & Game.

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