The Tiger King, he is not. Dan McKernan was making $100,000 at a tech job in Austin, Texas — until he gave it all up to move over 1,000 miles away and set up a sanctuary for farm animals in Illinois.
McKernan, his father and his twin brother, Chris, are the stars of Animal Planet’s new series “Saved by the Barn,” debuting Saturday.
Born in Michigan, “my family moved around a lot,” he said. Dan studied biology at Quincy College in Illinois but dropped out before graduation to travel. “I went to Bulgaria to help a friend develop a yoga series before moving to Venice Beach, and just taught myself computer coding and development,” he explained.
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