AR-News: Lions, tigers and bears

[jim robertson]

Lions, tigers and bears


File photo / The Chronicle
One of the two Siberian tigers living in Napavine is seen in its cage late 
in 2003. A measure in the state legislature would prohibit such animals from 
being kept as pets; people who already own potentially dangerous wild or 
exotic animals would be allowed to keep them, provided they are never resold 
within the state or allowed to breed.


House Bill 1151: Ban on exotic and wild pets has hearing in state House of 
Representatives
Saturday, January 17, 2004

Olympia - If your childhood dream is to own a monkey, a cougar or a 
crocodile as a pet, you may have to move outside the state of Washington.
  If approved, a measure under consideration in the Legislature would 
prohibit residents from making prts out of wild or exotic animals that can 
potentially do harm to humans.
....
   "It's imposing somebody else's will on everybody else," Mason said.**  "A 
lot of people out there would enjoy having a mountain lion or a tiger."

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.........**If he were a child molester, would he consider it "Imposing 
somebody else's will" on him if we locked him up for that practice?  Oh 
that's right, people like him consider non-human animals inanimate objects, 
therefore they are never thought of as victims of his crimes against them.

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Jim

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