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Ohio bill would ban new ownership of exotic pets
Proposed legislation in Ohio would ban the purchase of lions, bears and other exotic animals, but current owners of the dangerous wildlife would be allowed to keep them as pets if they meet strict new requirements.
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Ohio Exotic Pets Ban Would Prohibit Purchase Of Some Animals
In a Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 file photo provided by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shows one of two macaques that were captured by authorities a day after their owned released dozens of wild animals and then killed himself near Zanesville, Ohio.
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Wild at heart
Some declaw, destink or detooth wild animals to keep as pets. Others pack away their pet primates in a recreational vehicle and hit the road. And still others can no longer care for their exotic pets and find places to abandon them.
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Odd primates you may have never heard of
Cute primates slow lorises are in decline as they are being traded illegally as pets, but there are other endangered primates you may never have heard of that are also vanishing.
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Exotic-pet owners feeling besieged by crackdowns
Even in their Texas hideout, Jim and Donita Clark are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motor home and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years.
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Report: Ohio exotic animal owner upset over house arrest
COLUMBUS — A recently released federal prison inmate who freed dozens of exotic pets including lions and tigers from his eastern Ohio farm and then killed himself had been distraught over a plan to place him on house arrest, a probation officer told deputies in records released this week.
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Spotted leopard from Ohio farm euthanized at zoo
Exotic animal suffered severe spinal cord injury after hit by lowering door at Columbus zoo
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Owners flee exotic pet crackdowns nationwide
NEAR THE TEXAS-LOUISIANA LINE -- Even in their Texas hideout, Jim and Donita Clark are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years....
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Monkey owners flee Louisiana crackdown on exotic animals
The couple fears their monkeys will be confiscated and sent to a zoo
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Couple keeping four monkeys runs from the law in Texas
Owners of exotic animals say they feel that they're under attack as states, cities and counties enact new bans.
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