Netflix documentary series Tiger King has hooked viewers across the world after it dropped. The show focuses on big cat owner and keeper of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park or the GW Zoo in Oklahoma Joe Exotic. Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, Madness explores the rivalry between Joe Exotic – real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – and animal activist Carole Baskin.
The docuseries also looks at other big cat owners such as Dr Bhagavan Antle, who Exotic idolised.
Tiger King shows the day-to-day running of Exotic’s animal park and features former employers who worked at GW Zoo.
Among the workers at the zoo was Kelci “Saff” Saffery, who used to be a member of the US armed forces and toured Afghanistan and Iraq.
The show details how she lost her arm during her time at the zoo – but what happened to her there and afterwards?
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What happened to Kelci Saffery?
Episode two of Tiger King opens with an explanation of how Saffery lost an arm in a horrific accident.
During the filming of the documentary, the camera crew captured the aftermath of the tiger attack on Saff.
The GW employee was attacked after putting an arm through a cage and a big cat trying to rip it off.
As Saff tried to pull the arm out, the skin was ripped by the metal on the cage.
Saff was offered the opportunity of either an amputation or two years of reconstructive surgery.
The zoo worker decided to lose her arm and return to work.
In the series Saff said: “My biggest thing was derived from Joe. He said, ‘Our mission is to give these animals a fighting chance.’
“So, I knew if I stayed in that hospital, the media wins.
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“I see how much they blew it up into this horror story that I felt like the best thing to do was get right back to work. To set things right.”
She was back in the park working a mere five days after her amputation, a total of seven days in the hospital.
Despite losing her arm, Saffery didn’t have any ill will towards her employer or the park.
The zoo worker went on to say after returning to her job: “This was just another day for me to overcome.
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“My attitude is nothing can bring me down and it’s really easy to do that here.”
In a recent interview on Lights Out With David Spade, Saff was pragmatic and said the day of the accident was a moment of “complacency” on her part.
Saff said: “It’s not the fault of the tiger from my end and it’s not the fault of the tiger from the zoo’s itself.”
The tiger which attacked Saff wasn’t put down but just moved off the park and no longer interacted with the public.
Saff left the park in 2018 around the same time as Exotic, who is serving time in prison.
The worker said they departed because “the reason I was there went away, so I left”.
Tiger King is streaming on Netflix now
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