49 animals killed out of 56 who fled. This is the sad balance of the massacre that took place in Zanesville, Ohio
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himA massacre, 49 wild animals killed in Ohio, a Zanesville, where the police shot dead 49 of the 56 animals escaped From one private reserve after the owner committed suicide, leaving them free to roam. Eighteen tigers of Bengal, seventeen leoni, but also orsi and lupthe. A slaughter to save the inhabitants of the village, however, which cost the lives of many exotic animals, many of them endangered.
According to the Muskingum County Sheriff, Matt Lutz, 49 of the 56 exotic animals held in the private zoo of Terry Thompson they would already have been killed by the police, after their owner had them yesterday deliberately freed before taking their own life. The man, a recently released offender, was not new to the police precisely because of the detention of such a large number of animals in cages. Cages that he opened, as if to spite him, before committing suicide.
The sad story began on Tuesday when the police of the county of Muskingum began to receive hundreds of calls from the inhabitants of the area, who found themselves having to flee in front of a horde of wild animals left free to roam.
In recent days, even the schools they had been closed and the inhabitants had been ordered to remain in their homes. “All these animals are carnivorous and dangerous - explained the deputy director of the zoo of Columbus - especially when they are not in their usual environment “.
The insurgents also American animal rights activists and in particular those of the association Born Free Usa, who asked for one review of wildlife possession laws. We read on the association's website: "This week's incident involving exotic animals who fled to Ohio is a call to action against the private possession of wildlife. Our Chief Executive Officer, Will Travers, calls it a 'dire situation' which should serve as a brutal reminder that wildlife belongs to the wild and that no one should ever put animals at risk by trying to confine them in a zoo, circus, garden or in the home, where serious injury or even death can occur at any time".
According to the database of Born Free USA, more than 1600 cases of attacks and incidents nationwide are reported annually.
Francesca Mancuso
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