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| Officials can't take remaining exotic pets after OH bear attack - WTOL-TV Posted: 08 Sep 2010 09:36 AM PDT COLUMBIA STATION, OH (AP) - Officials in the Cleveland suburb where a captive bear killed a man say they can't force the bear's owner to give up his exotic animals. Columbia Township trustees responded Tuesday night to concerns raised by neighbors of Sam Mazzola. One woman living near Mazzola's property told the trustees that she worries about safety if the animals ever got out. Another said Mazzola's menagerie makes a lot of noise. The Plain Dealer reports that Mazzola did not speak during the meeting but said afterward that he has no plans to get any more animals. One of his bears fatally mauled a caretaker on Aug. 19. The man's mother wrote Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday saying she supports an exotic pet ban for Ohio. Besides bears, Mazzola also has tigers, wolves and a lion. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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| Taser Used On Man Trying To Save Pets From Burning Home - msnbc.com Posted: 07 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT NORTH BELLE VERNON, Pa. — THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com Police said they were forced to use a Taser on a man who was trying to rescue his pets from a house fire in Westmoreland County. Slideshow: Firefighters learned that 11 exotic snakes were inside one of the two homes that caught fire in North Belle Vernon on Monday. Monica Baker, who is 8 weeks pregnant with triplets, and her two children were able to escape when flames from their next-door neighbor's home spread to their home on Green Street. Monica's husband, Damon Baker, desperately battled the fast-moving flames with his garden hose before firefighters arrived. "I was outside, at the end of the garden hose, trying to spray down the side of the house to keep it from spreading so rapidly," said Baker. Police on scene said they tried three times to get him away from the fire to protect him, but he resisted so they were forced to subdue him with a Taser. "Had I been able to stay there a few minutes spraying it down before the fire department got here, we might not have lost all of our animals," said Baker. u local: Channel 4 Action News Viewer Shares Photos Of The Fire Scene The animals, firefighters learned, were 11 Ball Pythons that escaped from their cage and were loose inside the burning home. "This is the first time we've really had to bring snakes out of a structure like that," said Chief Ken Ramsdell of the North Bell Vernon Fire Department. "Sometimes it's good to know if people have exotic animals." Baker told Channel 4 Action News reporter Keith Jones that only 5 of the snakes survived the fire. Police said Baker will not be charged with any crime following the Taser incident. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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