1000's exotics seized

[Edbean]

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1832470.html

“This wasn’t a pet shop,” said Jay Sabatucci, an Arlington Animal Services manager. “This was a multimillion-dollar business. It was cheaper for him to let them die than to have someone take care of them

So far, authorities estimated the cost of removal and relocation at about $100,000.

Yeah... so make them pay ten times that. If they grossed that much money then why dont you confiscate that too. Thats like bernie maedolf not giving back the money he stole from people (like claiming to be selling high quality properly cared for pets)

“This is one of the most heart-breaking things. I saw hundreds of deceased iguanas and stopped counting at 200,” said Maura Davies, spokeswoman for the North Texas division of SPCA. “There were at least a dozen more.”

Does it sound like this girl doesn't know how to count OR exaggerate numbers? lol something in that paragraph just sounds wrong.

This is not the first time that the company has been in the news.

In June 2003, Shaw was asked by an Agriculture Department agent to delay the shipment of prairie dogs, after one of the animals was infected with monkey pox. Authorities at the time believed the disease came from a shipment of African rats that was sent to an animal dealer in Chicago. The infections led to a rash of cases in the Midwest.

Shortly afterward, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention banned the sale and transport of prairie dogs, fueling a national debate on whether they should be sold as pets.

Please dont say ban please dont say ban please... aawwwwwww

[joepythons]

Evidently this was the SECOND raid .They were raided for something else and the agents made a report on the dead animals.All i can say is THANKS ALOT IDIOT .Now because of his actions our hobby might suffer

[Edbean]

I dont see how this could have any effect on exotic animal breeding/sales though. Just because one company grows too big and becomes corrupt (cough GM, cough AGI, cough AMERICA) doesn't mean that all companies are like that.

Plus, this is a story about the health and safety of exotic pets. Its not saying they spread some foreign disease or harmed anyone... we have pigs and cows and birds to do that!

[joepythons]

I dont see how this could have any effect on exotic animal breeding/sales though. Just because one company grows too big and becomes corrupt (cough GM, cough AGI, cough AMERICA) doesn't mean that all companies are like that.

Plus, this is a story about the health and safety of exotic pets. Its not saying they spread some foreign disease or harmed anyone... we have pigs and cows and birds to do that!

The media and the nonherp lovers will make it look like we are all like this idiot.Watch the video and notice the lady repeats "they have a anaconda" in there.That one sentence stands out and makes people freak out .

[Edbean]

Ya well people are morons and the media just perpetuates their fear/stupidity.

[Vypyrz]

Somehow, I think they just got the season finale for Animal Cops...

[Big Gunns]

Those people deserve to go to jail for keeping those animals in such harsh conditions. I do completely disagree with the reporter's interview guy and say that anyone should be able to own any animal, as long as the husbandry is what the animal needs.

Don't be so sure that what you see on the news is the truth. Big Gunns knows another breeder with a pet business that was raided and they said some of the same things(not Maryland). They took containers out of an incubator with hatching snakes and said. "They had babies hatching out with no water and left to die". They did get their animals back, but it took a while.

You guys are doing exactly what we complain everyone else does. You're believing what you see on the news.

However, like BG stated on the other thread about HSUS. Unfortunately, there is some truth to what happens at importers.

[snakecharmer3638]

http://cbs11tv.com/local/Exotic.star...2.1371325.html



I hope they are prosecuted.

[thegoalie22]

I hope they spend a long time in jail

[NYDragon]

Wow, what is wrong with people?!?

Raid on exotic animal delivery company in Texas finds skinny snakes, rodents eating each other


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