In an Ohio farmland a owner of many exotic animals committed suicide and freed all of the animals. The owner was previously charged with many animal abuse charges since 2004. The police were put into the position where they had to put down many of the animals since the tranquilizers couldn't take the down. The animals were all pretty dangerous and it caused many schools to shut down and residences to stay inside. Endangered species like the Bengal tigers, black bears, grizzly bears, lions and more animals were killed. It must of been a sight to see animals like these to be running around in neighborhoods. I'm pretty sad that the authorities couldn't have tried a little harder to not have killed as many animals as they did. At least no civilians we hurt but at the cost of many animal's lives.
It's sad to see so many animals being killed just because they were set free. I don't get how the owner got to keep that many exotic and dangerous animals after having 11 charges of animal abuse. He was also recently released from federal prison for a firearms conviction. The authorities really should have kept a close on this guy. He kept so many dangerous animals but they did nothing about it. There were many complaints about the way he kept the animals too. But he still kept the bare minimum of required care. Which I find ridiculous. I don't think endangered animals should be kept captive. They don't belong in cages and should be where their natural habitat is.
I don't understand how anybody could think it was ok to keep a bunch of animals like that. Lately I've been really wondering how I feel about keeping "pets" in the first place...
ReplyDeleteI'd heard about this story and thought it was really sad that the end result was the killing of a bunch of animals who'd done nothing except be prisoners...
A slightly more hopeful animal story:
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