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  • Marian Thompson (left) follows her attorney, Bob McClelland, into a hearing at the Ohio Department of Agriculture in Reynoldburg, Ohio, on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Crook, Times Recorder)

    Ohio officials to return exotic animals to widow

    Ohio officials are clearing the way for the return of five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall and then committed suicide.


  • ** FILE ** This photo provided by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shows one of three leopards that were captured by authorities, a day after their owner released dozens of wild animals and then killed himself near Zanesville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Grahm S. Jones)

    Disputed exotic pets in U.S. to be quarantined

    Six exotic animals released by a U.S. man who then killed himself will be quarantined instead of being returned to the man's wife, the office of Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Thursday.


  • Terry Thompson and his wife, Marian, lead horses on their farm west of Zanesville, Ohio, in August 2008. She is trying to reclaim three leopards, two primates and a young grizzly from the Columbus Zoo, which has held them since her husband opened the cages of 56 exotic animals before killing himself Oct. 18. (Associated Press)

    Zoo to keep owner's exotic animals for now

    The six surviving exotic animals freed by their suicidal owner in Ohio will be kept under quarantine at a zoo for now instead of going to the man's widow, the state Agriculture Department decided Thursday.


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