This was just on my local news. It's no more than a couple hours south of where I live. Apparently, there are still three animals on the loose, a mountain lion, a grizzly bear and some type of monkey.
They were interviewing Jack Hanna, who said, although it's sad, he felt the sheriff's department had no choice. You can't have large, wild and dangerous animals running loose in populated areas.
I'm extremely sad that there couldn't have been some other solution. Apparently, they did try a tranquilizer gun on a tiger, but the tiger ran off unfazed and they ended up killing it anyway. Bad shot with the tranq gun, I suppose.
What angers me most about this is the owner's choice to kill himself, but to turn all the animals loose first. He had to know their fate. If he wanted to kill himself, fine, that's his business, but a simple phone call first may have saved the animals.
Sad for the animals, but the owner is totally at fault. Once the animals get loose there aren't a lot of options left. There were some semi domestic buffalo get out from a farm nearby a few years ago. They tried corralling them, but in the end the owner and the sheriffs department decided to shoot them so they didn't get out the busy road and cause an accident.
I've had to turn the news off. I can't stand hearing about it anymore. It saddens and angers me too much. Over 50 animals killed, including 17 lions and 18 Bengal tigers. Bengal tigers are an endangered species, with less than 2500 individuals estimated to be living in the wild, and numbers falling rapidly.
My first instinct was to ask, how in the world does an individual acquire 18 Bengal tigers (and all those other animals), but that would be very naive of me. I know, in today's world, one can pretty much acquire anything one wishes to.
I don't blame law enforcement. I don't have an answer as to what else they should have done. They did call in experts from the Columbus Zoo for advice.
And I know we don't have the full story yet and may never have it, but this whole situation should never have happened, IMO. It's just senseless.
Dennis Jones Webboard User Reg: 06-13-2004
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The guy turned them all loose as a big "F U world" before taking a dirt nap. I wish they could of gotten some big game wranglers up there quick but I imagine there isn't a lot of business for them in Ohio. Very few options
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