Exotic Animals Rescued in Texas Raid

A raid at an Arlington, Texas warehouse complex where exotic animals were kept turned up hundreds of dead and starved creatures. The AP's Rich Matthews has the story. (Dec. 15)

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• Animals-Raid

[Arthurb06]

Did he say:

"We have wallabies, We have Pikachus"

[dogsandkennels]

This is highly disturbibg.

Someone who treats animals like this never needs to have any kind of animal in his (her) care EVER again)

[weasel1822]

@Arthurb06 Kinkajou... I know I though he said that too LOL

[gordonfreeman1375]

@Arthurb06 Pikachus? where the fuck can i find one?

[sn8keman1]

You people are all stupid and have no idea what you are talking about jason can b an ass sure but he cares about his animals none of you realize when ordering from other countrys these animals usualy come in thin and dehidrated if you look closer to the paperwork u will c most of his animals are with him for at least a month he works hard tryin to get them back to health i've been buying animals from him since i was 13 years old and i just cant believe what has happened

[ghsthnter]

first off peta and the spca are two entirely different org's, the spca does save animals, and for the person with the comment about this being the same as your local meat market, these animals are being sold as pets not for consumption totally different pal, and for those defending these people you must be employeed by them to find nothing wrong or you are just blind and stupid, hopefully their sentences will be very long and costly,,,

[Fleefles]

"Rescued"? Yeah right. In the short time these animals have been in the "care" of animal control, 1000+ have died. Apparently its bad to neglect animals - unless you're animal control (or PETA!).

Also, the PETA "tipster" requested that ALL animals be euthanized.

600 reported dead out of the reported 26,800-ish animals is an incredibly low percentage, less than 1%. There are probably just as many dead animals on farms. What's next, raiding all farms?

[stxjoe]

I have been there too and it reeked of dead animals. Regular customers aren't given access to information you have so you are obviously a friend or employee of the Shaws. I stopped doing business with them because every\thing that came out of that warehouse was sick or near death and when you call and complain about it they are rude. Vanessa is a beeatch and I hope they do some serious time.

[axfight]

I've been to that warehouse, I've seen pallets full of fresh apples, bananas and greens. I've seen boxes of crickets stacked 8 feet high that come in every week to feed those animals. I've seen the workers there going nonstop for 12 hour days, 6-7 days a week, cleaning and spraying the cages, changing waterbowls and feeding thousands of animals. I've seen state of the art cages Jasen had imported from Germany, to keep his animals in. These cages cost $250,000 and over two weeks to install.

[axfight]

The real question here is, when will Jasen get his animals (and entire life) back, and how many will die in the hands of their "liberators". PETA is no friend to pet owners, any time, any place, period. PETA has killed 95% of the dogs and cats in their care. That is documented at over 20,000 animals since 1998. The story here is just plain wrong about Jasen and Global, and you are not getting the whole story.

[ruaBadChin2]

He said Kinkajou's, they are NOT a type of monkey, they are a rain forest mammal, and are actually related to raccoons among others. Do some reading, it will make you sound less stupid.

[Misery908]

AAAAHHH! Centipedes!!?? Who wants centipedes as pets??!! They're scary