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Even with the rules in place, that doesn't mean there aren't privately owned exotic animals in Idaho. The regulations grandfathered in animals already in Idaho, but required owners to declare the animals to state authorities and provide annual updates, so the state can keep track of them.
While the state's exotic-animal rules have addressed concerns about what's coming into the state, they don't really deal with how those animals already in Idaho are treated."I'm not going to begin to try to get inside their heads," he said. "It's the uniqueness of some of these things. They draw a lot of attention, but [people] don't stop to think of all the bad potential."See the full content of this document
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For the Birds
It seemed like a scene out of a movie. After mauling their owner, a pride of ligers escaped their enclosure, leaving a small-town police force to track and eventually kill the big cats.
They may have been Napoleon Dynamite's pretty much favorite animal, but the 1995 escape of 19 lion/tiger hybrids from "Ligertown" near Lava hot Spring...See the full content of this document
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