Camilla Calamandrei says she hopes to shine a spotlight on what she calls a horrible problem: people who collect and hoard exotic animals, creatures who were never meant to live in captivity. Her film "The Tiger Next Door" does just that, telling the story of Flat Rock, Indiana native Dennis H, who, at the time of filming, owned 24 tigers and a variety of leopards, panthers, bears, chimpanzees, and other animals, without the proper means to care for them, and quarrelling over them with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (and some of his neighbors)
Camilla Calamandrei
Camilla Calamandrei
Camilla Calamandrei
Camilla Calamandrei says she hopes to shine a spotlight on what she calls a horrible problem: people who collect and hoard exotic animals, creatures who were never meant to live in captivity. Her film "The Tiger Next Door" does just that, telling the story of Flat Rock, Indiana native Dennis H, who, at the time of filming, owned 24 tigers and a variety of leopards, panthers, bears, chimpanzees, and other animals, without the proper means to care for them, and quarrelling over them with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (and some of his neighbors)