Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
The tragic case in Zanesville, with the release of an exotic-animal menagerie by an unstable, amateur-nite keeper and the creatures' subsequent extermination by downstate police, scores yet another low point in animal welfare for good old clodhopper-capital Ohio. Wildlife officials in other states look at this place and cringe. And to think our governor, in his Republican business-deregulation wisdom, did away with a general ban on the exotic and dangerous animal trade in the name of the almighty dollar. Maybe the idea is to solve our crushing debt by selling premium-grade hunting licenses to the gun-toting bubbas, for whenever hoarded lions, tigers and grizzlies regularly get loose. There's entrepreneurship for you. Somebody ring up COSE.
