COLUMBUS — An Ohio zoo on Friday returned five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall before he committed suicide.
REYNOLDSBURG — State officials will return five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures before committing suicide. The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced the decision Monday at an agency hearing in which the state was to defend its authority to quarantine the animals — two leopards, two primates and a bear — on suspicion of infectious diseases.
COLUMBUS — An attorney for a suicidal animal owner’s widow who is seeking the return of exotic animals that survived an October release said she has adequate cages for them at her eastern Ohio farm, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
REYNOLDSBURG — An administrative hearing has been delayed for a week over Ohio’s quarantine order for five animals kept at a zoo since their owner released dozens of wild creatures from his farm before he committed suicide in October.
COLUMBUS — A spotted leopard that was among six creatures kept at an Ohio zoo after an exotic animal escape was euthanized after it was hit by a lowering door between two enclosures and suffered a severe spinal cord injury, officials said Monday.
COLUMBUS (AP) — A recently released federal prison inmate who freed dozens of exotic pets including lions and tigers from his eastern Ohio farm and then killed himself had been distraught over a plan to place him on house arrest, a probation officer told deputies in records released this week.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s state veterinarian says testing of a half-dozen exotic animals that survived release after their owner killed himself won’t begin for several weeks.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The six surviving exotic animals freed by their suicidal owner in Ohio will be kept under quarantine at a zoo for now instead of going to the man’s widow, the state Agriculture Department ordered Thursday.