Thompson Animal Testing Delayed

Officials are postponing a hearing over Ohio’s quarantine order for five creatures kept at the Columbus Zoo since they escaped from Terry Thompson’s farm on Kopchak Road in October. The Zoo began caring for three leopards, two primates and a bear under the order after – Thompson – their suicidal owner released dozens of animals that had to be killed by Muskingum County Sheriff’s Deputies. One leopard was euthanized after it was struck by a door lowering between two enclosures. The owners widow then demanded a previously requested appeal hearing and south medical testing to prove the animals don’t need to be quarantined. The Ohio Department of Agriculture says the March 12th hearing is rescheduled for April 23rd because of personnel changes in the Department, including the naming of a new director. The surviving animals haven’t been medically tested.