Update: So, how’s the exotic animal registration progressing as the deadline to notify the state and fill out the proper paperwork approaches on Monday? Not good. Via the Zanesville Times Recorder:
Officials at the Ohio Department of Agriculture think at least 500 private individuals own animals on the state’s restricted species list, but only 36 have come forward so far.
“Our best guess is that there are over (500) or 600 private people who own these animals,” David Daniels, agriculture director, said this morning at the first meeting of the state’s Dangerous and Restricted Animals Advisory Board.
To date, 341 animals are tallied up. 240 of those are at zoos or The Wilds conservation center.
A couple board members think animal owners are scared of the state — The Big Bad State, The Man — and that might be cause for a lack of self-reporting. Who would have guessed? — Grzegorek
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As we all know, despite a historically bad economy and record unemployment, one of the most high-profile issues tackled during the last legislative session was what to do with the exotic pets some Ohioans like to keep around the house. As sarcastic as that sentence can read, there were actually pretty compelling reasons to address the topic.
This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2012.
How about the fact that people simply know better and cannot trust a government and farm bureau that is run by the HSUS?
There you go….The whole Toledo thing REEKS of conspiracy…Not to mention the atrocity of just killing the escaped animals instead of utilizing trank darts….
Thank you, Cbrbart. Lutz suppressed his deputies from reporting facts like shooting cubs and animals that were still secured in their cages. Considering that I wonder if he wrote on his hands which animals were supposed to be saved and which destroyed, since they didn’t destroy the expensive animals. How many of them were being kept for the Columbus zoo?
Their desire to use this to smear all other animals tells you that they lack character and intelligence. They just know that it makes people hurt. That’s the best that they can do. Instead of working with reason and logic, they work to beat it down, and to destroy people while doing it.
I always enjoy these exotic animal stories. Always a good read in the comments section…
Many people don’t have any registrations for their pets. Some people only purchase the pets at some amount and don’t bother about their registrations.