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Surviving animals going home by Ann Sanner
The Associated Press
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REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — State officials will return five surviving exotic animals to Marian Thompson, whose husband released dozens of wild creatures before committing suicide. The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced the decision Monday at an agency hearing in which the state was to defend its authority to quarantine the animals — two leopards, two primates and a bear — on suspicion of infectious diseases. A spokeswoman for the agency said that the state had exhausted its authority in the case and that the state’s agriculture director would lift the quarantine order that was placed on the animals in October. Medical results released last week showed all five animals are free of the dangerously contagious or infectious diseases for which they were tested. Once the animals are returned to Thompson, nothing in Ohio law allows state officials to check on their welfare or require improvements to conditions in which they are kept, said agriculture spokesman Erica Pitchford. The local humane society could intervene with help from the county prosecutor if there were an investigation into animal cruelty, she said. Barry McElfresh, president of the county’s humane society, said he’s been to Thompson’s property three times
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to investigate complaints since October and found no violations. “I’ve never had a problem with Marian,” McElfresh said. “I truly believe after all these goings on that she will be making a good effort.” Thompson and her attorney, Robert McClelland, declined to answer reporters’ questions about the animals’ return as they left Monday’s hearing at the department’s headquarters in Reynoldsburg, just outside Columbus. Thompson is the widow of Terry Thompson, who released 56 animals — including black bears, mountain lions and Bengal tigers — from his eastern Ohio farm Oct. 18 before he committed suicide. Fearing for the
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AP photo In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo, carcasses lie on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, Ohio. Ohio officials are clearing the way for the return of five surviving exotic animals to Marian Thompson, whose husband Terry Thompson freed bears, lions, endangered Bengal tigers and other animals before killing himself.
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