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.
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.
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Agriculture Department ordered Thursday that six exotic animals be quarantined instead of transferred from a zoo to a woman whose husband freed them and dozens of other wild animals, then killed himself, the office of Gov. John Kasich said Thursday.
ZANESVILLE — The exotic-animal owner who killed himself after turning loose dozens of lions, tigers and other beasts was deep in debt, and a fellow big-cat enthusiast said Thursday that he had taken in so many creatures he was “in over his head.”
ZANESVILLE — Sheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals — including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions — in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what may have been one last act of spite against his neighbors and police.