Betty & Friends : My Life at the Zoo (9781101558928) by White Betty

Author:White, Betty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: 2011-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Smokey

Reggie, the truant alligator

Reggie

In Los Angeles, for months there was a startling sight: an alligator, certainly no California native, was swimming in Harbor City’s Lake Machado, and authorities couldn’t catch it. It’s likely he was an exotic pet someone unwisely adopted and then couldn’t care for, so he was just released illegally into the lake. Exotic pets are an epidemic. In terms of black-market moneymaking, they’re probably second only to the drug trade.

Reggie became a big local celebrity and was finally trapped in a coordinated effort between the City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreation staff and the L.A. Zoo’s curator of reptiles and amphibians and brought to the zoo.

For every Reggie a zoo is able to take in, zoos across the nation receive dozens of calls from people who want to find homes for their snakes, iguanas, and in some cases bears and monkeys. In most cases, the zoos are already at capacity.

How many times do we have to repeat: Exotic animals must not be kept as pets?

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