I would never get another hamster. My hamster was the best because she never pooped on me. Once I realized that was the highest standard a hamster could achieve, I lost interest in owning them.Originally Posted by deeply shaded
I would never get another hamster. My hamster was the best because she never pooped on me. Once I realized that was the highest standard a hamster could achieve, I lost interest in owning them.
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Yeahhh, I think she was making a funny. This answer is unexpected.
Lead Veterinarian In Exotic Animal Search Speaks Out
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) -A lead veterinarian who helped in the search for more than 50 escaped exotic animals in Zanesville is finally speaking about the terrifying night. Authorities sent in Barbara Wolfe to capture the 56 animals, including bears, wildcats, wolves, baboons, and tigers after their owner set them free on Tuesday night before committing suicide.
Six of the animals were captured are alive and recovering at the Columbus Zoo. One monkey remains unaccounted for, but officials believe he was eaten by one of the escaped cats.
Wolfe says the search Tuesday night was not ideal, and they tried to safeguard the animals' lives, but had few choices. "I had to go into the bushes and was about 15 feet from it. I shot it with a tranquilizer dart and thought we were going to be okay, but 10 to 15 seconds later it roared and got up and started toward me and they called me off and they shot it dead."
The owner of an exotic animal farm who set the animals free was apparently deep in debt. Court records show that Terry Thompson and his wife had money problems dating to the 1990's but that their debt escalated in recent years. They owed at least $68,000 in unpaid income and property taxes. Thompson also just got out of prison last month after spending a year behind bars for possessing unregistered guns.
Investigators have refused to speculate about what pushed him to unleash more than 50 animals on Tuesday before killing himself. Neighbors say they are shocked that Thompson did anything that could have harmed his beloved animals.
Officers had to shoot more than 50 escaped animals. The six animals which were saved include three leopards, two macaque monkeys, and a grizzly bear. The animals will undergo a complete evaluation by the Columbus Zoo’s veterinarian staff. Jack Hanna, Columbus Zoo director emeritus Jack Hanna, said the zoo’s first priority is to make sure the animals are healthy.
Officers say they were forced to shoot and kill 49 animals including two wolves, six black bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions, and 18 tigers. Police say they made the decision to kill the animals in the interest of public safety.
Police started getting phone calls at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday that wild animals were loose just west of Zanesville. Four sheriff's deputies with assault rifles in a pickup truck went to the animal farm. Officers tell WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, that Thompson was found dead outside of his home on the animal farm property.
The United State Humane Society Representative told Local 12 that after opening the gates to the animal pens, Thompson covered himself in chicken parts, apparently hoping the animals would eat him, and then shot himself. The animals were still feasting on the chicken when deputies arrived but officials say they immediately began killing animals when they first arrived on the scene because they thought the animals were attacking Thompson.
There were multiple sightings of exotic animals along Interstate 70, police said. One of the animals was hit and killed by a vehicle.
Lutz said that his deputies were not armed with tranquilizers and ordered them to shoot the animals - some at close range - because they posed a threat to the community. "If the animals looked like they were going (out of the property), I told (deputies), 'Put them down,'" Lutz said. Hanna defended Lutz's orders. "The sheriff did the right thing," Hanna said.
Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz says his department has received numerous complaints since 2004 about animals on Thompson's property. The crisis has sparked outrage. The Humane Society is criticizing the lack of laws in Ohio to keep this from happening.
http://www.local12.com/News/Local/st...XBEof4.twitter
So he was totally insane and also they really did just basically kill most of those animals together when they were still on the property, instead of taking three seconds to come up with a plan to pen them in.
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I WAS RIGHT.
I can understand shooting the ones they thought were attacking Thompson, but the others? FIVE MINUTE POWWOW.
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This basically boils down to a state government ignorant of wildlife, while allowing some of the most relaxed laws in having said animals. The way they handled the situation was out of complete podunk fear.
Very well put Bowie (as always, I can't rep you til I spread more around) and Green eyes!! Couldn't agree more!
They shot the ones that were eating off of the guy. Otherwise, it sounds like they shot the ones that were trying to go off the property.
"If the animals looked like they were going (out of the property), I told (deputies), 'Put them down,'" Lutz said. Hanna defended Lutz's orders. "The sheriff did the right thing," Hanna said.
Anyway, I don't see that they had a choice. They aren't trained in dealing with exotic animals. Why would they be? Because this insane asshole might some day set them free? Who would imagine that would happen? They didn't exactly have time to call a meeting with experts and make a plan. There were lions and tigers and bears, oh my, running around the countryside. If I lived there I'd want someone shooting them before they came to visit me or my loved ones. That's just me, though.
Some people know what to do..
http://www.wfmz.com/news/Video-Bear-...54/-/d505j5/-/
These folk opened the back door and made sounds and the bear ran off.GATLINBURG, Tenn. - One bear got a very sweet treat, and employees at a candy store got a sugar-coated surprise.
"We came in the back room, turned the light on and saw candy on the floor," said Gwatha Kear, Candy Kitchen employee.
You might call it a grizzly burglary in a candy store in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
"And I said, 'Dorothy [Robbins], let's get out of here. There's something in here. I think it's a bear,' because we had a bear hanging around out in the parking lot all summer," said Kear.
The sticky fingers were actually paws. A photo of black hair and surveillance video back it up. Police came to the rescue.
Employees made the discovery around 6:30 a.m. That gave the furry animal 30 minutes to satisfy its sweet tooth. Workers in the Candy Kitchen described the bear as a kid in the candy store. It had a fun time eating a caramel apple and a pecan log.
Black bears are not uncommon inside the Candy Kitchen, however, Gwatha and Robbins aren't too keen on having a "real" mascot.
"This lady came and was looking at the door, and we were telling her everything that was going on, you know," said Gwatha. "She said that bear evidently can't read because it said, 'no pets.'
It was the day a black bear broke into the Candy Kitchen.
"I said we have the sweetest bear in town," said Robbins.
Some people live in states where bears are naturally occurring.
In Tennessee? I mean, I don't think there is a state that has no bears.. I am pretty sure they are all over the country. Maybe CA, NY or TX has more, but technically we have more land.
Are you kidding me? If a bear showed up in Iowa it would be front page news in every newspaper in the state. There are certainly states without bears.
From what I can tell, while not common they seem to walk through Iowa to get elsewhere.
Must not be anywhere near me. I remember a moose in Iowa once which was a big deal, but don't remember anything about bears.
Looks like they best stay out of Iowa. We don't coddle those trespassers here.
DES MOINES (AP) - State environmental officials say a second black bear has been shot in Iowa this summer.
The most recently reported incident happened last week in Fremont County.
The more than 200-pound bear was shot by an Iowa Department of Natural Resources conservation officer who says the animal acted aggressively after raiding his garbage cans.
Another bear was shot by a citizen in Franklin County last week.
Officials say there have been a total of five confirmed sightings of black bears this year, including the bears that were shot. The other sightings were in Winnisheik, Johnson and Davis counties.
Before this year, the last confirmed sighting of a black bear in Iowa was in Allamakee County in 2005.
All the reports I am seeing is that they come down from Minnesota and usually leave.
So, yes DS, YOU ARE RIGHT. But it also seems that even in Iowa, where bears are scarce, they don't try and kill them.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/47650487.html
DUBUQUE - There have been reports in the past few days of a black bear wandering around the area near Dubuque.
Rural Dubuque resident Sue Oswald was one of the residents who have had encounters with the bear, which appears to be several hundred miles from its natural habitat. Oswald says she was finishing up her aerobics routine late Friday afternoon when she hears a loud thump from her front yard. She ran to the door, looked outside and saw a bear looking back at her. Oswald said the thump was the bear knocking over a bird feeder to get to the seeds inside.
The animal then fled.
People in the Delaware County town of Edgewood unexpectedly went on a bear hunt. A small, black bear made his way into town early Wednesday afternoon.
The DNR says the young male has been in Iowa since Monday and has traveled through Winnesheik and Clayton County, and is now in Delaware County.
Most of us hear the words wild bear and we immediately think danger and that the bear will attack. But things are relatively calm here in Edgewood. DNR officials say black bears are docile.
The young male ran around the golf course in Edgewood. At one point, more than 50 people were crowded around a tree that the bear climbed to get away from all the commotion and ended up stretching out on one of the tree limbs and taking a nap.
DNR officials say the biggest concern is keeping people away.
"I think it's so cool that we are seeing a bear in Iowa cause we don't have bears here in Iowa. What probably happened is this young male is looking for love and wandered out of southern Minnesota," said Jennifer Lancester, Iowa DNR.
The DNR says the bear is going to be disappointed because he's not going to find a mate in Iowa. DNR officials are following the bear and keeping an eye on him. The hope is they won't have to tranquilize the bear and he just returns home to Minnesota.
Did you read the article I posted?
Nope, but that was mainly because I didn't see it.
WHATEVER DS!!
Nope, but that was mainly because I didn't see it.
WHATEVER DS!!
Goal #1- Scare bear away.
If I pass out and hit the ground really hard will that work?
HAHAH OHIO has a shit ton of bears. My friend used to tell me that she'd see them wandering through her town every morning.
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The good news today is that black bears are back in Ohio! There are about 100 black bears now living in the wild in our state. And some female bears (known as sows) have been seen with cubs, so wildlife biologists know that bears are reproducing and the population is growing. Bears have returned because some forests, their habitat, have grown back.
So shit tons are apparently a lot smaller than normal tons then.
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/Expe...0/Default.aspx
Last edited by deeply shaded; 10-21-2011 at 02:26 PM. Reason: link
*shrug* I have a lot of friends from Ohio and all of them have always talked about bears like they're a regular occurence, especially everyone who lives north part of the state.The good news today is that black bears are back in Ohio! There are about 100 black bears now living in the wild in our state. And some female bears (known as sows) have been seen with cubs, so wildlife biologists know that bears are reproducing and the population is growing. Bears have returned because some forests, their habitat, have grown back.
So shit tons are apparently a lot smaller than normal tons then.
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/Expe...0/Default.aspx
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