Carole Baskin offering $5,000 reward for info leading to missing tiger in Texas

The Big Cat Rescue founder and Netflix’s "Tiger King" star is offering $5,000 for information leading to the recovery of a missing tiger named “India” in Houston, Texas, and is calling on the public to be on the lookout.

Baskin has placed some responsibility for the tiger being on the loose since Mother’s Day on Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Baskin and other supporters have been pushing the Big Cat Public Safety Act for years, which would have made it "illegal for the people using that cub to dump it into private ownership," she told Fox News on Wednesday.  "That’s why we need our federal bill because each state has its own laws and the states are not equipped to handle this sort of thing," Baskin explained. "The off-duty officer who showed up first to the scene and had the gun drawn on the cat, I mean, they’re not trained in how to deal with loose tigers and they shouldn’t have to be. They shouldn’t be in backyards or basements."