48 Animals had to be put down
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God created cats and dogs for a reason... so we don't have to have bears, lions and monkeys as pets.
Hail, Hail!!!
the guy let them go and killed himself.
now we have one dead idiot and 48 beautiful, majestic wild animals, 18 of them endangered, all dead...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Completely senseless.
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They had a vet there with a tranquilizer gun ...
jack hanna was all over the news today saying that they could not tranquilize the animals because they would run off into the woods and they could not find them all in the dark. they would fall asleep, and wake up later and run off and not be found.
still it is shitty that this guy released all of the animals and that they had to be killed :evil:
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yes, some of the animals represented endangered species. The problem with endangered animals in such a situation is that many were raised in captivity....thus they lack the skills needed for them to be successfully returned to the wild. In the case of the tigers, many rescue tigers (rescued generally from drug dealers by the DEA) are hybrids of multiple species. Being hybrids, AZA certified zoos can't and won't use them in species survival breeding programs. This also makes unacceptable for a return to the wild.
It is difficult to keep a wild animal. You can't set it free in the wild... it'll probably die. Zoos don't want them because they may have to isolate them from their cage mates.
The reason why these animals end up at way stations is becuase the asshole original owner could not keep it. Those asshole original owners need to pay for their stupidity. Like if you bring a wild wolf cub into your home, when it grows up into a wild wolf... (because that is what fucking wolf cubs do, grow up to be fucking wolves)... the original owner has to feed his pet one of his legs. He still gets to pick which leg he gets to keep... I mean, we are a civilization, right? There needs to be pain that goes along with stupidity.
Hail, Hail!!!
That's a shame. All those animals had to die because of one selfish person... :evil:
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The report I saw said one lady shot a tiger with a tranq. dart, and the animal just got enraged and began trying to kill her. She had to put it down.
This isn't TV, folks. That Hollywood shit doesn't always work when your life is on the line.
Editor's note: Will Tavers is CEO and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation, whose mission is to end the suffering of wild animals in captivity, rescue animals in need and protect wildlife, including highly endangered species. The foundation includes Born Free USA, which runs a primate sanctuary in Texas for 500 primates rescued from laboratories, roadside zoos and private possession.
(CNN) -- Exotic animals should live in the wild, not be exploited in profit-motivated zoos -- or worse — as "pets" or backyard oddities by people who have a deeply misguided sense of dominion or ownership.
What happened in Ohio on Tuesday and Wednesday has drawn dramatic attention to the private possession of exotics, an issue that is a major component of Born Free USA's mission to protect wildlife.
On Wednesday, 56 exotic animals — including lions, tigers, bears, giraffes and wolves — were freed from their captivity at a rural residence outside Zanesville. Police report the animals' "owner," 62-year-old Terry Thompson, let the animals out of their cages before he killed himself. Forty-nine of the animals -- including 18 tigers and 17 lions -- were shot dead by law enforcement officers.
Thankfully, other than Thompson's death, no human injuries have been reported as a result of this situation.
Ohio has had a recent flurry of incidents in which exotic animals being held by private individuals in or outside people's residences have been involved in violent encounters with humans. In September, an 80-year-old man was attacked by a kangaroo at an exotic-animal farm in Green Camp. In June, an escaped "pet" grivet monkey scratched two girls while he was on the loose in Fremont. In August 2010, a bear fatally mauled its caretaker on the owner's property in Columbus Station.
Born Free USA tracks such cases in our Exotic Animal Incidents Database. We list 86 incidents involving exotic animals in Ohio in recent years, and probably many other such encounters have gone unreported. Nationwide, our database lists nearly 1,600 incidents.
There is no excuse for wild, potentially dangerous, exotic animals to be kept in private hands. Ohio is one of a handful of states with woefully few regulations on the books to govern such questionable close contact with wildlife, and Born Free USA has been pushing for years to get a stronger law enacted in the state.
In 2006, the Ohio Legislature quickly introduced a bill to restrict private possession of exotics after an Ashtabula County woman was mauled by a 500-pound black bear that escaped a pen kept by a nearby neighbor. The bill failed, and just four years later in 2010, an emergency executive order was put in place after a 24-year-old man was mauled to death by a black bear kept in a Columbia Township compound. The order temporarily banned private ownership of big cats, bears, alligators, crocodiles and certain snakes. In April 2011, the order expired upon the promise by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the governor that a new rule-making process would swiftly be established in order to implement regulations regarding possession of exotics. This still has not happened.
What will it take to get swift action in the state -- and in other states around the country that lack complete bans on exotic pet ownership? Will it take a bigger, more diverse animal escape? A monkeypox outbreak? People dying? There is no need to wait, no need to take this kind of dramatic and incomprehensible risk.
The drain on society from keeping exotic animals as pets is not insignificant. Humane societies, sheriff's departments and wildlife sanctuaries end up bearing the brunt of the cost of placing these animals and giving them humane, lifetime care.
In Texas, the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary provides permanent, safe, naturalistic and free-range accommodations for more than 500 macaques, vervets and baboons, many of whom have been rescued from captive lives of stress, deprivation and danger -- danger to both the monkeys and to their "owners."
Every chance we get, every day we come to work, in as many effective, forceful and creative ways we can, we encourage our members and supporters to spread the word that wild animals belong in the wild.
What happened in Ohio this week is appalling. All those animals, imprisoned for no good reason. Their "owner" was apparently a tortured soul who took his own life and put the lives of nearby residents in peril through his bizarre act. And all those wandering animals, confused by their sudden and unfathomable "freedom," were shot dead as though they were alien invaders in a safe bucolic land.
None of that had to happen. It could have been avoided. Private possession of exotic animals is inexcusable and it puts human lives at risk. When will we, as a civilization, learn that wild animals are just as entitled to live freely on this planet as we are and it is our duty and obligation to ensure that this is possible?
Maybe, just maybe, the wildlife slaughter on the streets of Ohio will finally spur the change we need for safer and more compassionate communities across the country.
He says 18 tigers and 17 lions were among them. Six animals were taken to the Columbus Zoo.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/opinion/t ... index.html
The cage / pen wasn't very big and didn't look like it was fit to cage lions. It boggled my mind that he could actually have them legally ... and that his neighbors were OK with six lions that were caged in what looked like a dog kennel!
Rumor was that the guy had a few bears at one time. I've checked it out in past years when visiting home and pen is no longer there.
I can't think of one good reason (or even an average reason) on why someone should legally have a lion or other large predators. It's abusive to the animals and presents a danger to the public.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
:twisted:
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
that man . . . terrible betrayal of the gift of life
senseless
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Apparently, over $70,000 in back taxes and lots of other issues surrounded his suicide.
But, this guy should be off the hook right? And anyone else who abuses animals, right?
I mean, it's all in Genesis 1:26.................
Even went on to (reprtedly joke) "we cant invent laws"......
Our outgoing Governor had a seemingly good start on changing things right before Kasich took office. Kasich allowed that exec order to expire.
link to the article
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories ... s-say.html
lifted from the article above
Unlike an order signed by his predecessor, Gov. Ted Strickland, which Kasich allowed to expire, the new order does not ban ownership or sale of wild animals, or require registration. Kasich said that would require changes in state law to be proposed later this year.
“Governors can’t just invent laws,” Kasich said at a Statehouse news conference. “I really wish I could have the power to invent any law I want,” he said, joking.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
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Yes! The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, for example, is very careful and skilled in their care taking.
But even more so, another reason to stop destroying and encroaching on wildlife's natural habitat. Here's one organization that's doing a great job at trying to reverse that, The Wildlands Network:
http://www.twp.org/
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
How dare you, motherfucker? You want to kill yourself, fine. Leave the innocents alone.
I'm a huge supporter of Big Cat Rescue - working for them would be my dream job (or for Perverted Justice, but that's another story).
Yes, I look at lion and leopard cubs and just want to nuzzle their bellies and eat them UP they're so goddamned adorable - but to have one as a pet?
Beyond irresponsible.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln