It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that Tyge passed away last week.
The park contacted me yesterday to let me know and said that it's been a very sad time with lots of tears.
It was a tragic accident, they use horse tails for enrichment with all the cats, the Tigers just play with theirs but Tyge was eating his (which is fine since it's a natural food source) however 6 foot worth of horse hair had built up in his intestines and compacted them.
The pathologist and vet said there was nothing that could have been done as the extent of the compaction involved too much of the gut.
They have now banned horse tails for enrichment.
They sent over the picture above for us in his memory.
:-(