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by michelle.sundvick | August 7, 2008 at 10:54 am
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Legislators are looking to tighten a bill over the control of dangerous exotic animals due to the recent tiger attacks that ended in lost limbs. Dakoda Wood-Ramel was attacked on Monday at the Branson Interactive Zoo and Aquarium and remains in critical condition in a nearby hospital, while a volunteer at the Warrenton sanctuary lost his leg below the knee.
Rep. Michael Sutherland, R-Warrenton, said a bill he sponsored in the past and will sponsor again would regulate exotics as pets and provide more state oversight of facilities such as those in Warrenton and Branson West where people were injured by tigers on Sunday and Monday.
"They would have been able to operate, but they would have had to operate under some pretty strict guidelines under the state as far as identification of the animals, and definitely a lot more regulations on how the facilities were kept and the type of facilities the animals were kept in, so the public didn't have to worry about safety issues," he said.
He had hoped legislation toughening regulations on dangerous exotic animals would become law before anyone was injured or killed.
The only statewide regulation on dangerous exotic animals requires owners to register their animals with county sheriffs, Sutherland said, but he added sheriffs have more than enough to do to without having to check on the presence of big cats and other exotics.
Sutherland's bill would increase penalties for not registering an animal in a bill covering a Noah's Ark of animals, ranging from tigers and bears to other carnivores such as jaguars, mountain lions, ocelots, cheetahs, hyenas and wolves.
The bill also covers non-human primates and dangerous or poisonous reptiles.
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at 11:14 on August 7th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:19 on August 8th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 03:49 on August 8th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:13 on August 8th, 2008
A well-written article. I'm glad to provide my photo.
at 05:35 on August 8th, 2008
These photos were taken at the St. Louis Zoo. We had been going fairly regularly to try to get a good look at the new cheetah cubs. This was the first day they were really out. We stopped by earlier in the day and they were sleeping. We came back around and were fortunate enough to catch one of them up and moving. I love these animals
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at 06:23 on August 8th, 2008
American Museum of Natural History endangered and extinct species exhibit (July 2007)
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at 07:06 on August 8th, 2008
This wonderful shot of cheetahs at rest was snapped at the Cleveland Zoo. I must say zoos have come along way since i was a child in the 1960's.
When I was in 5th grade, we had a field trip to Pittsburgh Pa, one stop was the zoo. What I remember of it was, it resembled jail cells more than anything esle.
I am pleased to see a more natural outdoor enviroment.
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at 14:36 on August 8th, 2008
beautiful white tiger
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at 15:59 on August 8th, 2008
View my original, and many other photos
Anyone may post any photo on any blog as long as the photo is linked back to my original.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/conashton/2738132526/
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at 04:44 on August 9th, 2008
Black Jaguar taken at Edinburgh zoo, UK.
More of my pictures can be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25803841@N05/
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at 19:00 on August 11th, 2008
I took this picture in a Buddist Temple outside Bangkok... the animals live there, and the monks take care of them, no drugs are use for Tigers.
The place inspire me pace and serenity...
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at 03:16 on August 12th, 2008
Yor pic fascinates me and would love to hear more of your visit.
at 19:01 on August 11th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:29 on August 12th, 2008