Game Farm Owners Barred From Home

The owners of the Ligertown Game Farm whose escaped African lions terrorized the community have been barred from their mobile home as unfit to occupy.

“I imagine we will (appeal the decision),” Dotti Martin said Tuesday.

Martin and Bob Fieber’s home within the Lava Hot Springs-area game farm is unfit due to potential fire hazards, an inadequate water system, lack of sanitary facilities and a failing foundation, according to a report by Terry Bailey of the Bannock County Office of Planning and Development Services.

“We don’t want people living there,” county Deputy Prosecutor Guy Price said. “Accidents will happen.”

Martin and Fieber, who are staying with friends in McCammon, are recuperating from wounds after one of their lions attacked them Sept. 20. That lion and 18 others were killed. Another 27 cats were taken to a California animal refuge, and 42 wolf-dog hybrids are being cared for at a former zoo in Roberts.