This is Iowa and the animals at the Cricket Hallow Zoo are only contained because they think they can't break out.

The zoo clearly is not a secure place. There are huge cats and the fences are not enough to contain them if they decided to challenge the them. It is time to allow the dangerous animals to be placed in sanctuaries that can eventually return them to the wild. I remind how a zoo in Ohio became out of control very easily. This is not a good situation for the citizens of Iowa.

By Lee Hermiston, The Gazette

October 5, 2015 | 8:07 pm

...The lawsuit began to unfold in Cedar Rapids federal court (click here) about two months after government inspectors wrote that the Sellners “have not shown good faith” in correcting violations documented in earlier U.S. Department of Agriculture visits. The couple three times in 2014 and 2015 “failed to provide” inspectors with access to facilities, animals and records, the USDA wrote.
Cricket Hollow Zoo, its owners wrote on Facebook, is a private zoo exhibiting birds and animals alongside a dairy farm in Manchester.
“We house a large number of big cats, monkeys, bears, wolves and many other exotic animals that families in our area don’t get to see every day,” the page reads.
The Sellners told supporters on Facebook about their legal plight and encouraged supporters to attend the hearing.
“We are doing our best to fight back against a powerful animal rights group with almost unlimited funding,” a post by Pam Sellner said. “ ... We have personally received hate mail, death threats, private detectives taking illegal photos, aerial photos, trespassing, slanders and lies, much of it by people who have never even been here.
The ALDF asserts three violations of the Endangered Species Act — unlawful “take” of a protected species, unlawful possession of protected species and unlawful trafficking of protected species in commerce....