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Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 2:10 PM

Lions find new home

Lions find new home
Sharkarosa Zoo sits tucked into the trees along Massey Road in Pilot Point. The facility has been the subject of a recent USDA inspection and complaints by the Animal Legal Defense Fund that resulted in the zoo turning over two white lions to a North Texas animal sanctuary. Abigail Bardwell/The Post-Signal

Two white lions formerly at Sharkarosa Zoo have drawn lot of attention and now live at a new facility.

The animals were the subject of a focused inspection on April 9 by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

“We rescued these guys as cubs when they were little tiny cubs,” Shakarosa Manager Brandon Wornick said in a video posted May 20 by the facility on its social media pages. “They had been sick. We have this documented from the zoo they came from.”

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