![]() ![]() Prior to 2005, some cities and counties banned exotic animals, but there was no state statute for it. Minnesota statute 346.155 prohibits exotic cats, bears and non-human primates and any hybrid of the above and domestic animal. “Subsequent to 2005, Minnesota regulates registration and inspection of exotic ownership,” said Officer Keith Streff, an animal investigator with the Animal Humane Society. They are animals that most of us will only see in a zoo, but what kind of exotic animals are legal to have in Minnesota? Officers said they tried to tranquilize one of the 300-pound tigers but it ran off after being shot and they decided to not try that again. There were 18 tigers, 17 lions, eight bears, and a baboon among the animals that authorities said they had to shoot dead, because it was getting dark, and they worried that tranquilizers would not be effective. ![]() READ MORE: Xcel Energy Gears Up Extra Crews Ahead Of Winter Storm MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - After the owner of an Ohio exotic animal park threw open the cages of more than 50 animals and then killed himself, authorities said they had to kill nearly all of them to protect the neighborhood. ![]()
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