Jaber recounted an incident that took place in January 2017, while she was in Egypt training for her masters degree. She asked a close friend to take care of the cheetahs, but a fire broke out in the apartment and the fire brigade saw the wild felines and reported them to the police.
“I directly called somebody high-ranking at the police station of the district to replace the mention of ‘cheetah’ with ‘big cat’ on the complaint. It is necessary to act very quickly, so that the wasta works,” Jaber tells MEE.
Owning exotic animals is illegal in Kuwait yet these guys are parading them in this article for Middle East Eye and on their personal instagram accounts. Then to top it off they talk about how they have wasta to help them stay out of trouble and give examples of situations where their wasta helped them out. I really do hope because of this article they’ll all get arrested and their animals taken away from them. [Link]
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This is a whole new level of messed up.
FUCK THESE PEOPLE!
Mark. “AlJaber”. There’s something missing with that last name, it’s not even a last name, it’s a middle one, don’t you think “AlSabah” is missing?
No idea I didn’t write the article nor do I known who the girl is…
I don’t think you can jump in assumption that it’s Alsabah, there is a famous soccer player named Sami AlJaber.
and yes there people with last names as Aljaber
A girl with that kind of money and connections is more likely to be the latter, don’t you think?
Yet she lives in an apartment.
What kind of money? There is no mention on how much she makes.
I know bedoun, as in stateless raising tigers.
not know him personally, over social media.
disgusting
This girl isnt from the Al-Sabah family. Furthermore, there is an Al-Jaber family in kuwait that isnt related to the monarchy.
Out of curiosity, isn’t Wasta kinda in every country in a way or another? I would love to get more context regarding it ..
yup, anywhere you have corruption you have wasta
Everywhere has corruption, its the level of corruption that matters. That’s the same as saying every country has crime.
I wonder what they have been trained to eat?
After skimming through the article, she apparently feed them chickens.
…and ice cream…
Nice try Infusions.
wtf they are not only endangering the animals but themselves and their neighbors how do we report them?
How cool is she….and nope marky they are not going to jail nor will the pet be taken away
“district of Salmiya, a wealthy neighbourhood”
Lol, wtf did I just read?
you gotta learn that in here yeha6oon wajd, they over exaggerates, they love it, she made it sound like Beverly Hills lol
So happy to see this here. Disappointed but glad you posted and I am somewhat optimistic that someone will do something about it.
yknow dogs and cats used to be wild at some point till we bred it out of them right? What’s the difference?
Dogs and cats, not lions and tigers that’s the difference
Maybe one day we can tame those wild animals like cats and dogs, is it possible over time ? I’m curious.
Sad to see the plight of such dysfunctional folks!
I should like to gift them a Great Dane or a St Bernard. They will realize what they had missing in their lives.