COLUMBUS — Ohio Gov. John Kasich has put in place temporary measures to crack down on private ownership of dangerous wild animals while tougher laws are written this fall. Some animal owner groups welcomed the order, though others have blasted it as not going far enough. Critics, including the Humane Society of the United States, say they would have preferred a ban on the purchase and sale of exotic animals. That’s what Kasich’s Democratic predecessor, former Gov. Ted Strickland, ordered before leaving office in January.
Oct 30 2011 | Posted in
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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.
Oct 27 2011 | Posted in
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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.
Oct 27 2011 | Posted in
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COLUMBUS — The Columbus Zoo is trying to stop an Ohio woman from reclaiming three leopards, two primates and a bear that have been cared for by the zoo since her husband freed dozens of exotic animals at their farm and killed himself.
Oct 27 2011 | Posted in
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The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s fund for the six animals rescued from Zanesville has collected more than $26,000.
Oct 23 2011 | Posted in
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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.
Oct 19 2011 | Posted in
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Kermit L. Sheets, 72, of Dresden, died at 2:20 a.m. Tuesday (Aug. 2, 2011) at Emeritus At North Hills in Zanesville.
Aug 2 2011 | Posted in
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