Source: L.A. Times This article features Ed Newcomer, a CSUDH lecturer of criminal justice and former Fish and Wildlife agent. At less than a month old, unsteady on his small paws, the jaguar cub was already working. While others born in the Amazon rainforest were still being nursed by their mothers, he was rented out to do a photo op in a Texas hotel room for $1,000 an hour. People snapped their fingers to get the cub’s attention and held him on their laps. They posed with him for photos later posted on Instagram. In video of one such photo shoot, the cub — smaller than a house cat — shrank back from the loud voices around him. As the jaguar wandered on the hotel carpet, ... Read More