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VA Recommendations Expected On Exotic Animals
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A committee of state officials, animal protection advocates and others is expected to deliver its recommendations on exotic and potentially dangerous animals.
Members of the Dangerous Animals Initiative are meeting Wednesday in Richmond for what is scheduled to be their final meeting. The effort was launched after a man in Ohio let loose more than 50 lions, tigers and other exotic wildlife before killing himself one year ago.
The animals had to be put down out of concern for the public's safety. Ohio later enacted tightened regulations on exotic animals.
The Virginia initiative has agreed on oversight of large exotic animals but is struggling over primates. Owners of primates are resisting additional oversight.
The recommendations will be presented to the legislature and the governor.
A Chesterfield man and avid snake collector found dead in his home October 1 died from complications from a snake bite, the State Medical Examiner's Office said.
http://www.wric.com/story/20203290/v...exotic-animals
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Re: VA Recommendations Expected On Exotic Animals
People are the worst...  Dude had 50 LIONS???!!! C'mon, man.
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Nothing wrong with having them, releasing them so they would be free to maul everyone is another thing altogether.
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Re: VA Recommendations Expected On Exotic Animals
Cat people. . . .they're somethin' else man.
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He didn't have 50 lions, he had 50 lions, tigers, and other exotics. For all we know he could've been Noah's Ark-in' it and had two of each animal. Or only one (although that seems like an awful lot of work).
Still, releasing them is wrong. And even worse, he decided to commit suicide so now there's no one to hold accountable for it. Besides, what did he think was going to happen? They were just going to blend in to nature and live without problems for the rest of their lives?
I just don't get how people think sometimes...
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Re: VA Recommendations Expected On Exotic Animals
 Originally Posted by barbie.dragon
What the... This is why we can't have nice things.
Because some suicidal person decided to release his animals and kill himself the rest of us can't have nice "things"? Why is that?
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