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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

Fischer answered a ringing telephone and found a panicky police officer on the other end, looking at a three-foot American alligator in a suspected drug trafficker’s kitchen. Fischer says she’ll never forget the relief in the officer’s voice when she said the zoo could send someone to pick it up. (The alligator ended up as one of the zoo’s ambassador animals, going on trips to teach schoolchildren.)

That alligator really turned his life around

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Hahaha... we all know cops shoot animals on sight

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Answer: Law enforcement itself doesn't have anything in place, but they call people who care.

    Baby monkeys are hard, but:

    Fischer, contact list at the ready, quickly found the babies a temporary placement at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, which had staff and facilities to do both the quarantine and the baby care. “They were immediately able to jump into action, call that agent back and start communicating,” says Fischer. The park staff even made the six-hour round-trip drive to pick up and triage the babies. “They were rock stars.”

    Yay zoo!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is nuts. 😮

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    TL;DR they throw them into a giant stew.

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