Lower than every week after the Oregon State Police served search warrants on a southern Oregon zoo and wildlife park, authorities have begun transferring animals from the property to supply them with higher care.
Authorities have confiscated greater than 300 animals at West Coast Sport Park Safari, the Oregon State Police mentioned in a press release.
Officers mentioned the seized animals might be relocated to accredited animal sanctuaries or rescue services, however they added that not all the animals had been reached in time to be saved. On the primary day of the search, officers from state and federal companies decided that they needed to euthanize a camel that was so sick that “remedy or transportation would probably lead to dying.”
On Tuesday, police introduced that officers additionally euthanized a rooster and a kinkajou that had been deemed to be direly in poor health.
The four-day search of the 21-acre Coos County property got here 10 years after U.S. Division of Agriculture inspectors recognized “a potential sample of personnel not performing satisfactory day by day evaluation of animal well being,” federal information present.
Within the years since that report, USDA inspectors documented a bunch of violations — together with a useless tiger that was saved in a freezer with meals for different animals, a lion that appeared visibly emaciated, rotten fruit in meals bins and rats operating round meals preparation areas, experiences confirmed.
Police mentioned that veterinarians and employees with the Oregon Humane Society, Oregon Division of Fish and Wildlife, and Oregon Division of Agriculture have been offering medical care to the animals on the wildlife park.
Police haven’t introduced any arrests or felony prices.
— Tatum Todd is a breaking information reporter who covers public security, crime and group information. Attain them at ttodd@oregonian.com or 503-221-4313.
