Jackson’s pets spark fundraising war

Tigers Thriller and Sabu are informed of Michael Jackson's death, but Bubbles is kept in the dark

BY JONATHAN HARWOOD
FIRST POSTED JULY 2, 2009

The death of Michael Jackson has sparked a fundraising war between various wildlife sanctuaries in America housing former members of the King of Pop's Neverland menagerie.
The likes of chimpanzee Bubbles, tigers Thriller and Sabu, and Rikki the Amazonian parrot are now living in different reserves across the country - and all of them are asking for donations from Jackson fans in the wake of his death.
Actress Tippi Hedren, who looks after Jackson's two tigers at her big cat reserve near LA, led the calls for cash after revealing that she had taken time out to personally break the news of their former owner's death to the predators.
The mother of actress Melanie Griffith and star of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 thriller The Birds said: "I went up and sat with them for a while and let them know that Michael was gone. You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal, but I hope they understood."
She added that she was hoping for donations to her Shambala Preserve, which is home to 68 tigers, lions and other big cats.

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