Aftermath of an Animal Tragedy…
– – Just days after a private owner of exotic pets in Ohio set dozens free this week and then committed suicide, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed an executive order pushing for a moratorium on exotic animal auctions and a crackdown on unlicensed auctions in the state.
Animal activists have complained that Ohio has some of the nation’s laxest regulations on exotic pets. A Dayton, Ohio based group that wants to end private ownership of wild animals says that it knows of at least 20 farms that are comparable to the one in Zanesville from which 56 exotic animals were released with authorities subsequently slaying 49 of them, including 18 rare Bengal tigers…one percent of the world’s Bengal tiger population.
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FOXSYLVANIA 
October 22, 2011 at 5:11 pm
There was a certain environmentalist-author who once asked an interesting question in one of her 1980’s books:
“Man Kind?”
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October 25, 2011 at 1:12 am
No, man often not…I think it was Freud who once said, man is an animal…but this demeans animals!
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