Muskingum County Animal Farm

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The Muskingum County Animal Farm was not open to the public menagerie in Zanesville in the US state of Ohio . The owner Terry Thompson kept mainly large predators on his 73 acres (approx. 30 hectare ) property , including lions , puma , grizzly bears , black bears , Bengal tigers and wolves . The farm was about two miles west of Zanesville on Interstate 70 .

Around 5 p.m. on October 19, 2011, the heavily indebted Thompson, who had just served a prison sentence for illegally possessing weapons, released his animals from their enclosures and then committed suicide . As a result, 56 large carnivores left the site and escaped into the surrounding area. There was a large contingent of more than fifty members of the police, who hunted the escaped animals over the next 24 hours and shot most of them. Of the 49 animals shot, 18 were Bengal tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears and three pumas. Three leopards , a grizzly bear and two monkeys were stunned by Columbus Zoo staff and brought to the zoo.

Jack Hanna from Columbus Zoo described the shooting of the remaining animals as regrettable, but inevitable given the circumstances. The sheriff Matt Lutz, who was responsible for the police operation, described the events as "pointless and crazy". People were not harmed during the events. Area schools remained closed on October 20, and warning signs were posted on Interstate 70.

The attitude of wild animals in the United States regulated at the state level. Ohio has no corresponding regulations, and applicable federal laws apply only to facilities that display animals for a fee. The governor of Ohio, John Kasich , commissioned a working group to draw up state regulations for private wildlife keeping. As a result, a law came into effect in Ohio on September 5, 2012, which regulates the private keeping of wild animals more strictly.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Police Kill Dozens of Animals Freed on Ohio Reserve , New York Times, October 19, 2011 (accessed October 21, 2011)
  2. ↑ a b Exotic Animals Escape Ohio Farm; Owner Found Dead ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . National Public Radio , October 19, 2011 (accessed October 21, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.npr.org
  3. ↑ a b Report on ABC News (accessed October 21, 2011)
  4. ↑ Animal killings unavoidable, Jack Hanna says ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Zanesville Times Recorder (accessed October 21, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com
  5. ↑ Kasich glad wild-animal ban is OK'd in Columbus Dispatch , accessed January 9, 2013
  6. ^ Ohio Senate Bill 310 on the Ohio website, accessed January 9, 2013

Coordinates: 39 ° 56 '48 "  N , 82 ° 3' 45.2"  W.