Detroit Zoo helps in Texas animal rescue

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from the Detroit Free Press:



Detroit Zoo helps in Texas animal rescue

By ZLATI MEYER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


The Detroit Zoo is helping officials in Texas treat thousands of animals, many of them seriously ill, that were seized in what’s believed to be the largest animal rescue in U.S. history last month.

More than 27,000 animals were saved in a Dec. 15 raid of an Arlington, Texas, exotic-animal dealer, zoo spokeswoman Patricia Janeway said today.

If the animals won’t be returned to U.S. Global Exotics, the Detroit Zoo has offered to provide a home for some of them, including five wallabies, four sloths, three agoutis, two ring-tailed lemurs, two coatis, two kinkajous and hundreds of reptiles, spiders and amphibians, according to zoo officials.


http://www.freep.com/article/20100112/NEWS05/100112080/1001/rss01

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1. Animal abusers should be given the treatment they give the animals...