Sucks that this situation happened but with the history of neglect and the authorities really doing nothing about it, I think the blame lies everywhere from where the dude got his animals from to the town that knew about the situation and did not enforce or remove the animals before this happened to the sick individual and the mental health field that is failing a lot of mental ill people everywhere.
I would personally would re-examine the industry and go through it throughly where the problem areas are at and address them instead of banning it outright. To keep peoples jobs to start with.
I personally don't think its appropriate for anybody to be keeping venomous snakes as they have no business risking the public due to the act of god such as hurricanes/tornados they cannot guarantee the animal will be still kept in the cages etc. The only appropriate places are at the zoos for public or for collecting venom to save lives otherwise to keep them as pets is really dumb thing to do when there are so many snakes out there thats not going to harm the public with their venom or large snakes
Look at what happening to florida right now with exotics threatening the public, no thanks to idiots who bred them and sold them to the wrong persons. The breeder is equally as responsible as the stupid owner. Same goes for huge felines such as tigers. Who bred them should have been held accountable.
In 1994, David Marshall, a senior keeper at Metro Zoo (now called Zoo Miami) was mauled to death by a 350 pound tiger named Lucknow.
In 2007, a Bengal tiger escaped her holding facility at the San Francisco Zoo, killing one zoo visitor and injuring two others.
Almost everyone in the zoological and conservation community opposes exotic animals being kept as pets by private owners.
We do not support non-accredited facilities nor individuals that choose to keep these animals for personal reasons, said Ron Magill of Zoo Miami.
I also remember on Aug. 28, 2010 Zoo Atlanta officials were working around the clock to find a rattlesnake that escaped.
According to a press release, the tiger rattlesnake that had been transported to the Zoo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday escaped from quarantine.
DALLAS Dallas Zoo officials said they cant explain how a 300-pound gorilla escaped from his enclosure, injuring four people before he was shot to death.
Police evacuated an estimated 300 people from the zoo compound Thursday and killed Jabari, a 13-year-old male western lowland gorilla, after he charged at officers.
The parents of a 17-year-old boy killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said the attack has forever ruined Christmas for them, while police are investigating whether someone helped the tiger escape.
The area of the zoo in which the Siberian tiger killed Carlos Sousa of San Jose has been deemed a crime scene, San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong said.
The zoo's director, Manuel Mollinedo, said officials have not determined how Tatiana, who weighed more than 300 pounds, escaped from her exhibit area and attacked three patrons Tuesday before police shot and killed her.
A 20-inch cobra slithered out of its cage in the Bronx Zoo Saturday, forcing the exhibit to close while workers searched for the venomous serpent, officials said.
The adolescent Egyptian cobra went missing from an off-exhibit enclosure sometime in the afternoon and zookeepers quickly closed off the Reptile House, officials said.
Workers canvassed the building, eying several closed-in spaces that the reptile would naturally be drawn to coil inside, officials said.
The snake - native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula - was not recovered Saturday night, officials said.
Alphie - a Japanese Macaque escaped from the Pittsburgh Zoo in 1987. He went on a tour of the local countryside, showing up as a simian version of Where's Waldo before finally being captured in Ohio six months later.
a female Gorilla escaped because Pittsburgh Zoo just can't contain their attractions! The unnamed female vaulted the sixteen foot wide dry moat to grab an untrimmed piece of inch wide bamboo. She used this to climb the sixteen foot wall and then hopped the four foot retaining wall. Her hour long reign of terror over the zoo's garbage cans ended when she was lured into the women's restroom with Hershey kisses.
Ken Allen - a Orangutan born and raised at the San Diego Zoo, Ken Allen wanted freedom. Dubbed the Hairy Houdini, Allen escaped three times in the summer of 1985, spending each exhibition wandering the zoo grounds and looking at the other exhibits. Baffled as to how he escaped, zoo keepers tried to get video surveillance but Ken was on to them and continued to slip past. Even with employees undercover as tourists, the orangutan was able to spot them and avoid detection. Only when other apes started to escape with Ken did zoo officials give up; spending over $40,000 on renovations to the enclosure and ending Ken Allen's mini-vacations.
Reggie an American alligator was dumped in an urban lake in L.A., Reggie evaded capture for two years; costing the city over $180,000 and a lot of pride. When he was finally brought in and wrangled into L.A. Zoo, he showed them all how he felt about this indignity by immediately climbing the five foot wall around his area to go lounge by the loading dock.
a Japanese macaque named Opps who escaped her pen and was at large in the Western Virginia mountain wilderness/suburbia for more than a week before she was spotted in a nearby backyard,
