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Exotic animals on the loose in Ohio...

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a..._animal_farm_owner_killed_self/?p1=News_links

A mountain lion, grizzly bear and monkey were the only animals still running loose after being set free from an exotic-animal preserve
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Sounds like they killed all of the rest.

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There's a press conference on CNN about it now. Sad that so many exotic animals had to be put down because the man just let them loose. Especially the Bengal tigers. Jack Hanna said there are less than 1400 of these left worldwide and here 18 were put down. 🙁 Don't know why they couldn't have been tranquilized. Didn't hear them give reasons for that. Just that they needed to protect the public.
 
allisolm said:
There's a press conference on CNN about it now. Sad that so many exotic animals had to be put down because the man just let them loose. Especially the Bengal tigers. Jack Hanna said there are less than 1400 of these left worldwide and here 18 were put down. 🙁 Don't know why they couldn't have been tranquilized. Didn't hear them give reasons for that. Just that they needed to protect the public.
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Having them tranquillized would have been best, but where will you put them after?
 
allisolm said:
There's a press conference on CNN about it now. Sad that so many exotic animals had to be put down because the man just let them loose. Especially the Bengal tigers. Jack Hanna said there are less than 1400 of these left worldwide and here 18 were put down. 🙁 Don't know why they couldn't have been tranquilized. Didn't hear them give reasons for that. Just that they needed to protect the public.
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They didn't put them down because it happened last night. They didn't want the additional risk of trying to tranquilize animals at night.
 
I heard there were two reasons they didn't try to tranquilize the animals. First, they had dozens of police out looking for the animals, and there was no time to equip all of them with tranquilizer darts plus train them how to use them right. Second, it can take a long time for a tranquilizer dart to take full effect, and since the animals could run off there was a chance of danger to area residents.
 
when i first heard of this i thought somehow they had escaped or been let loose from a giant african safari park that's right near zanesville. http://thewilds.org/

too bad they couldn't have been tranq'ed, that park is literally right there.
 
Wait a second... the other guy in Ohio who owned exotic animals (and one of his bears killed a guy) was found dead last year, bound and with a mask over his face. (The article doesn't spell out that he was killed though.)

Now, this guy is found dead in... his driveway? Allegedly at his own hand?? No suicide note, and the cages were cut open???

Something doesn't quite add up in my mind.
 
DrPizza said:
Wait a second... the other guy in Ohio who owned exotic animals (and one of his bears killed a guy) was found dead last year, bound and with a mask over his face. (The article doesn't spell out that he was killed though.)

Now, this guy is found dead in... his driveway? Allegedly at his own hand?? No suicide note, and the cages were cut open???

Something doesn't quite add up in my mind.
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I'm think peta, you too??? 😛
 
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