<p>Actually, a bear cub did walk into a grocery store in AK yesterday…</p>
<p>^^^ Wasn’t that Alaska? I watched it on youtube this morning. A baby bear was cruising the produce department.</p>
<p>The loss of the Bengal tigers is particularly sad. There are so few left. The officers must have felt terrible having to shoot them.</p>
<p>AK = Alaska. The bear cub in the grocery store was in Ketchikan.</p>
<p>What a waste; how terrible to lose these beautiful animals.</p>
<p>The Columbus zoo was able to rescue 5 or 6 of the animals. Can’t remember what variety.</p>
<p>There may already be laws that would prohibit or restrict this kind of make-shift animal sanctuary, but clearly the guy wasn’t inclined to follow laws he didn’t like.</p>
<p>Everyone is talking about this since we are all in Ohio. Such a sad, sad story. The last press conference was held at 10:00 am. The updates are at [Columbus</a> Ohio News, Weather & Sports | NBC 4i](<a href=“http://www.nbc4i.com%5DColumbus”>http://www.nbc4i.com). The pictures that were released and on facebook were horrible, can’t get the scene out of my mind. I wish there could have been alternatives but understand there was not.</p>
<p>Gotta love Jack Hanna. He explained to news outlets that the animals were released just before dusk and by the time law enforcement officers and wildlife experts were rallied, it was getting dark. They only had four tranquilizer guns for more than fifty animals, but it is nearly impossible to tranquilize in the dark. The vets can’t tell if an animal is out and it puts the people in danger if the wild animals are not fully under. With darkness, they can’t even tell where the animal is hit and where it ran off to after the hit. Additionally, the animals were extra stimulated because they were loose.</p>
<p>It is indeed sad. I can’t imagine why the caregiver let the animals go. He had some other options. However, from the sound of things, he may have wanted a grand exit. That he got.</p>
<p>The mother of one of DS’s college buds said on her fb page that while she worried about sending her kids off to college, she never thought her child could someday be attacked by lions, tigers, bears, and a monkey with herpes in Granville, OH. 
(Although, this story is really really sad.)</p>
<p>Sad, sad, sad. The farm owner was described as animal hoarder.</p>
<p>Only 6 animals were captured and sen to the zoo: 3 leopards, a grizzly, and a monkey.</p>
<p>I’m sure Jack Hanna’s heart was bleeding when he was talking to the reporters explaining why the police had to kill the animals.</p>
<p>[Ohio</a> animal killings: ‘like Noah’s Ark wrecking’](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016552980_animals20.html]Ohio”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016552980_animals20.html)</p>
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<p>“There may already be laws that would prohibit or restrict this kind of make-shift animal sanctuary, but clearly the guy wasn’t inclined to follow laws he didn’t like.” </p>
<p>Bizarre as this may sound to most of us, Ohio has no laws regulating the possession of exotic animals! There was an attempt to get one passed last spring but the Guv vetoed it.</p>
<p>From the news report I read, this man was known to have abused the animals, keeping them in unsanitary conditions and not feeding them properly. I wonder whether he kept the more dangerous ones in cages most of the time? It’s really hard to believe that he managed to acquire so many wild animals. </p>
<p>The photos of the animals dead on the ground are heartbreaking. But it’s a miracle that no people were injured. The sheriffs must have had about 2 minutes to decide what to do with this situation that they couldn’t have possibly anticipated.</p>
<p>The whole story is so sad. They said there was still a monkey unaccounted for, but suspect one of the cats used it as a snack.</p>
<p>jym, that’s what I suspected … a cat snack. </p>
<p>This whole story is so sad. First the animals were kept in poor conditions, plus they didn’t have a natural environment, and then after all that they get killed. If anything can come out of this, I sure hope it’s a change in laws, more than just in Ohio. I surely don’t want my family, neighbers or me to come across a lion or tiger in my state while out for a walk, run, or drive.</p>
<p>I heard on the news tonight that one of the tigers did, indeed, eat the unaccounted for monkey. Such a sad story all the way around.</p>
<p>And apparently one of the big cats took a bite out of the late proprietor’s fresh carcass. Ugh!!!</p>
<p>Sounds like he didn’t treat them well, so the chomp was well deserved.</p>
<p>They must have all been so hungry - poor things. Of course, that also made them extra dangerous. </p>
<p>It is very difficult to tranquilize an already excited animal. That is even the case with domesticated animals like horses. Some horses don’t handle pre-show clipping and mane pulling well so they’re given a little something to calm them. The decision to drug them has to happen before you start. Once they are hyped up, the drugs don’t work very well at all and you can end up creating a dangerous situation.</p>
<p>This is outrageous:</p>
<p>[Zanesville</a> Animal Preserve Owner’s Wife Wants Surviving Animals Back - Yahoo!](<a href=“http://gma.yahoo.com/zanesville-animal-preserve-owners-wife-wants-surviving-animals-130750447.html]Zanesville”>http://gma.yahoo.com/zanesville-animal-preserve-owners-wife-wants-surviving-animals-130750447.html)</p>
<p>She developed “bonds” with some of the animals. This sort of explains why these particular animals might have been captured alive… CNN ran a segment on the captured animals last night. The grizzly bear was sniffing at the camera and licked it, the leopards looked frightened but shoed no signs of aggression…</p>
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<p>I disagree that the sheriff and staff couldn’t have “anticipated” this. But if not they then who? Is there another entity that is charged with residential safety in such a case? Sounds like there should be, or the sheriff’s department assume that duty. Where was the fish and wildlife service? Such an obvious deviation from normal ‘residents’ – and in such large numbers! --, with its potential for danger, should be one thing that is always on the ‘radar’ and there should be tools, like tranquilizer guns and a workable plan in case the unexpected happened, which did, regardless of which office has the responsibility.</p>
<p>If Ohio is going to allow such reckless laws on its books, then they had better have the means for dealing with this kind of event that are both safe and effective for all involved.</p>