Terry Cullen raided

[BPelizabeth]

but Im willing to bet someone with a widely known reputation like Mr Cullen hasn't been moving exotics illegally.

right there with you on that one......and someone well known for working with rescues I am willing to bet had his ducks in a row with licensing.

[Sariel]

right there with you on that one......and someone well known for working with rescues I am willing to bet had his ducks in a row with licensing.

Im going to watch how this unfolds now that I know about it. Im interested in seeing what the details are and who is really at fault.

[wilomn]

right there with you on that one......and someone well known for working with rescues I am willing to bet had his ducks in a row with licensing.

Hopefully.

Until more facts are available though, well, it's just speculation. My roses are speculated enough for now.

[Kaorte]

Wow...that is just so sad...

I don't even know what to say.

[bsd13]

The police were serving a warrant for a sexual assault according to this article
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2...ssault_pro.php

Also I asked a friend who is a police officer and he said during a warrant raid it is pretty much standard ops that any dog doing anything except lying on the couch is going to get shot dead. They take absolutely no chance of an officer being injured.

It sounds like they served a warrant for one thing and found other law violations relating to the reptiles not that they went in looking for reptiles. Be interesting to hear both sides of the story. In there somewhere is the truth.

[BuckeyeBalls]

Also I asked a friend who is a police officer and he said during a warrant raid it is pretty much standard ops that any dog doing anything except lying on the couch is going to get shot dead. They take absolutely no chance of an officer being injured.

See i dont agree with that. When a cop executes a no knock search warrant idc how much u trained your dog to not bark/growl when some1 knocks on the door but when they BUST down ur door its the dogs nature to bark or growl. I dont agree with they "HEY THAT DOG IS MOVING SHOOT IT!!!"

[BigBlue56]

This is sad and just goes to show you the country we really live in.

Those poor dogs.. Not to mention those "dangerous animals" are going to be mis handled and you can BET a good percentage of them will be dead within a month or two.

Does anyone know Terry personally or people he is close too? I cant wait to hear more.

I hope he did nothing wrong so he can sue the [****ens] out of those cops.

[bsd13]

This is sad and just goes to show you the country we really live in.

Those poor dogs.. Not to mention those "dangerous animals" are going to be mis handled and you can BET a good percentage of them will be dead within a month or two.

Does anyone know Terry personally or people he is close too? I cant wait to hear more.

I hope he did nothing wrong so he can sue the [****ens] out of those cops.

What's he going to sue the cops for? Doing their jobs? Officers don't have the luxury of sitting around the squad room debating the merits of a warrant. They are told to serve it and they do. Nothing more, nothing less.

I don't agree with shooting the dogs. Don't agree at all. But the fact is someone did something that gave a court a reason to issue a warrant sending them to that location. If no law had been broken, no warrant, no dead dogs.

There's more news coming out of this:

Hundreds of mice and rats blanketed the basement floor of a building on Milwaukee's south side where an estimated 200 exotic animals were housed, according to a police document released Friday.

Many of the animals - ranging from alligators and crocodiles to snakes and turtles - were unable to turn around because the containers in which they were kept were too small and filled with waste, the arrest report says.

Jane E. Flint, who told police she lived in the building at 2323 S. 13th St., was arrested Wednesday and is in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail. She is being held on suspicion of mistreating animals and violating regulations regarding endangered or threatened species, according to the arrest report.

Source - and continues

It's also worth noting that they haven't found Terry Cullen yet. Surely he's heard about this by now...