I can see it in their face and in their eyes."
McHale asked Cowie if the cats were put down due to medical reasons.
He replied, “You would think, but no.
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Even before all this happened, Jeff [Lowe] asked me once point blank where my loyalties lie?
The situation with Cowie was not the only time Exotic allegedly put down healthy animals.
Lowe, Exotic’s former business partner and current owner of his Oklahoma zoo, shared his own tale.
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“Joe killed the tigers.
He admitted to killing the tigers from jail,” Lowe said.
His wife Lauren interjects, “And they were healthy tigers, by the way.
They were 2-3 year old.”
Lowe continues, “They were not sick.
So Joe goes out and makes the cage space by killing five beautiful, healthy tigers.”
“At that point, it’s out of my control,” he said.
“I saw him shoot two tigers, actually,” he told McHale.
The guy was a cruel man.”
Exotic was not available to comment on the numerous allegations made against him during the after show.
Dial was Exotic’s campaign manager during his run for governor of Oklahoma.
Dial clarified whether or not he believes Maldonado intentionally killed himself.
“We were talking, he was telling me about his gun.
Joe just bought him a Ruger,” Dial explained about what transpired moments before Maldonado accidentally shot himself.
“He said, ‘Hey, you know a Ruger won’t fire without a clip.’
And I said, ‘Really?’
However, it must’ve had one [bullet] in the chamber.”
I could see that basically it translated to, ‘Oh crap, what did I just do?’
And maybe five seconds of his eyes I could read it and then he was gone."
Finlay confirms this was his choice.
“I got tattoos, why not show off?
I mean, it was a little cold but it was fun,” he told McHale.
“He was scared to death of lions and tigers.
