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Eatery Wants to Use Tigers As Attraction

HOUSTON - A downtown restaurant that already features sharks and other exotic aquatic life wants to add another attraction from the animal kingdom: white tigers.

Houston businessman Tilman Fertitta is working to display three tigers at his Downtown Aquarium restaurant.

But animal rights activists are condemning the proposal, and some council members say it would violate a city ordinance barring people from having a wild animal in the city.

Restaurant officials say their establishment and downtown Houston would be a more attractive destination for residents, tourists and conventions if the animals were there. They also promise to treat the tigers humanely.

Fertitta, president and chief executive of Landry"s Restaurants Inc., which operates the Downtown Aquarium, hopes to get around the city"s exotic animal ordinance by seeking accreditation from the American Zoological Association.

"We feel like this is a zoo facility," said Jeff Cantwell senior vice president of development for Landry"s. "This is about entertainment and education. It"s no different from the Houston Zoo in that respect."

Landry"s has received that accreditation for a similar exhibit at a Denver restaurant.

But animal rights activist Anthony Marr said Fertitta"s plan is a commercial enterprise and that "there does not seem to be a single thought for the well-being of these animals or the future of the species."

休斯頓－一家已經在商店里展示鯊魚和其他奇怪水族生物的酒店最近決定引進另一個成員，動物家族的國王－白虎，增加酒店的吸引力。休斯頓商人Tillman Fertita正在他所在城市的水族館酒店里展示三只老虎。然而，動物保護倡導者紛紛譴責這一提議，一些國會人員也提出，這種行為是違法的，因為現行法律禁止人們在城市飼養動物。

酒店相關人員表示，如果這些動物在酒店展示，無論是對居民還是游客，都會讓酒店和休斯頓更有吸引力。我們承諾人道地對待這些老虎。

Fertitta，Landry酒店的董事長和總經理經營著這座城市水族館。他希望得到美國動物學會的特許經營，以避免城市珍惜動物管理的規定。酒店經營發展副總裁Jeff負責 Cantwell說：“我們認為這更像是一個具有娛樂和教育目的的動物園機構，從這個意義上說，它與休斯頓動物園沒有太大的不同。”在此之前，Landry在丹佛的餐館獲得了類似的特許權。

然而，動物保護主義者仍然堅持說，Fertita的計劃只是一種商業行為，而不僅僅是為了動物的福利或物種的未來。

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