$50,000 is the price on my head

 

I guess I should be honored that it wasn’t just a six pack and baggie full of blow.

 

Matt, the USFWS guy talks way too much and told Howie that Jeff Lowe had offered up a witness who said Joe Schreibvogle offered him $50,000 to kill me.  Matt said the guy refused to testify when he found out that USFWS was leading the charge.  That tells me he’s some exotic owner / dealer or he wouldn’t care.

 

In 2016 we had Joe against the wall and Howie went to an all day and nearly all night mediation where Joe agreed to stop breeding exotic cats and we would give him a long time to pay us back at a rate he could afford.  In the days that followed, Jeff Lowe jumped in and convinced Joe he’d pay all the legal fees if Joe would make him a partner in the zoo.  The deal fell apart and I’m surprised it took two years for those two men to come to hate each other.  I think they are both such liars that it is impossible to know what caused the split, but what we do know is:

 

Joe was running the zoo in April 2018 when he claimed to have thrown Jeff out.  Jeff had gone to Las Vegas to start up a casino hopping bus, called the Safari Bus, where he’d pick up people on the strip, take them to his rented house, and charge them to fondle cubs.  We turned him in.  PeTA turned him in and I didn’t hear anything more about it until I found out that Jeff had been in jail for not having permits to do that and his cubs had been seized because they were in such poor health.  Next thing you know, Jeff has gone back and thrown Joe out of the zoo.

 

Jeff said Joe was stealing from him and they finally got caught by Wal-Mart for feeding the expired meats to customers at their zooTiki Bar.  Losing their free meat source, I knew things were going to go south pretty quickly.  Lots of cat places depend on that free meat, despite the fact that it is of questionable quality and isn’t a balanced diet for big cats.  Most of them wouldn’t exist at all, if not for the throw away food, so it’s long bothered me that it enables the worst of the worst, who don’t care if their adult cats die young, because all they need are cubs to pimp out.

 

Jeff’s judge in NV let him out on a one year probation, that requires him to stay out of trouble.  I don’t think he can’t stay out of trouble for a year.  In fact, he just had a final judgment handed down in another matter where he allegedly stole a food truck from a man who was renting it to them to set up their drive in movie next door...on property they didn’t own.  You can’t make this stuff up.

 

The judge in our lawsuit against the zoo ordered us to pay 30k and Jeff to pay 80-90k to the receiver.  We paid our part.  Jeff & Joe didn’t pay theirs, so the receiver and our attorney went to the zoo to try and reinstall the cameras over the registers again, and set up systems to monitor the cash, but Jeff wouldn’t let them in.  The receiver has filed for a contempt  judgment.

 

Meanwhile Jeff and Joe continue to throw each other under the bus.  Joe is in hiding and Jeff claims that he’s gotten calls from the taxidermist saying the 6 tigers Joe shot for their pelts are ready for pick up and he owes them over $5k.  The jeweler also reportedly called saying the gold plated tiger teeth are ready too.  Jeff claims to know, and says he’s told authorities, that Joe shot and killed all of the tigers he couldn’t sell or use for breeding any more.  In 2016 Joe had over 200 tigers and other lions, ligers, etc. but NatGeo reporters, Sharon Guynup & Steve Winter went there last week and said there are only 68 big cats and almost no other animals.

 

According to Matt, between Jeff and Joe ratting each other’s bad deeds out, they have pretty good evidence against “doc” Antle and others, so this could be a huge bust by the time it’s done.  He tells Howie that he has enough on Joe to indict him for murder for hire, violations of the endangered species act, bankruptcy fraud and more.  His plan is to pick him up o