 Tigers kept in garages as pets. Lions saved from a zoo in war-torn Ukraine. Bears abused at a Korean medical facility. Now 64, Craig got the idea for the place as a teenager in the 1970s when a friend who worked at a zoo gave him a tour behind the scenes. There were all these animals, lions and tigers, that were in small cages. And he said, these will be euthanized. And I thought, wow, this is crazy, you know. These are healthy. They're not old. They're not sick.