With all the stories on the web and on the news I am glad to say the exotic animals in Ohio are dead or captured.
My daughter and grandchildren lives less than 2 miles from the Thompson farm where all these animals were kept. My daughter called me that evening around 7:00 and told me she was so frightened that one of those animals could get into the house and kill or mame her and the kids.
As I sat here in fear, not knowing what was going to happen and enduring the long night of torment and worry, the Muskingum County Sherriff's department acted quickly and diffused the situation the only way they could, by killing these animals which I am so grateful for.
All over the web, the sheriff department is getting heat for killing them, calling them killers of helpless animals. LET ME BE THE FIRST ON THIS SITE I thank god for what they did. All the negative comments about killing the animals, they should have tranqulized them, their families were not in danger, mine was.
Couldn't agree more. I've read that a full grown tiger can carry a full grown man in it's jaws for miles without any part of the man dragging on the ground. That's a scary thought.
Anyone that knows me knows that I'm the last person to be calling for additional laws, but people keeping these kinds of animals should have some serious oversight.
There is a large amount of public hunting property I sometimes go to about 50 miles from my house. A few years ago I noticed an old house bordering the property. The old house is in the middle of a poorly fenced field. I mean, boards and such being used as part of the fence. I saw what appeared to be a full grown tiger fenced up in there. If it escaped into that public hunting wilderness it would probably never be found. I used to carry a .380 as a sidearm when I hunted there. Now I worry about 14 rounds of 45 ACP being enough, and it wouldn't be.
