OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As a cat lover, the story on her local news about a tiger cub that had been rejected by its mom hooked Terry Bronson almost immediately.

Zoya, a Siberian tiger cub born at the Philadelphia Zoo, was motherless. The news report included information about a plan to move Zoya to Oklahoma City with the hope she could integrate into a litter of Sumatran tigers that had been born at the zoo a week before.

"I have cats so I was curious, did the experiment work?" Bronson wondered.

Bronson has never been to the Oklahoma City Zoo or Oklahoma City for that matter. But from her home in...