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.
By all accounts, what happened Tuesday night and Wednesday in Muskingum County was the largest exotic animal escape in American history. Some 56 animals, most of them large cats, bears and wolves, escaped from a private farm near Zanesville shortly before dark on Tuesday when their owner released them from their cages, cut the cage wires to prevent the cages from being reclosed and then committed suicide.
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.
When approaching Honey, a tan-colored wild mustang, children and parents alike were a little tentative at first.
Like many humans do, Sorcha feels better when eating healthier, whole foods.