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[spawner]

by DEBBIE DENMON / WFAA-TV

Posted on December 15, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Updated today at 1:42 PM

ARLINGTON — It's being called the biggest animal seizure of its kind in the country. Authorities moved in to take custody of a many as 20,000 creatures from an exotic pet distributor Tuesday morning.

Arlington Animal Services served a civil seizure warrant on U.S. Global Exotics, a multi-million dollar business that acquires these creatures from all around the world — then sells them for premium prices.

The collection includes snakes, wallabys, tarantulas, turtles and hedgehogs.

"We're finding huge amounts of dead animals in with the living ones," said Jay Sabatucci of Arlington Animal Services. "We're finding turtles who are basically in a toxic soup of water and other dead turtles."

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http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Thousand ... 23622.html

[seamaiden]

Oh my God, ew! I thought your regular dead run was bad, until we brought in some turtles that died in the tanks and I had to remove turtle slop that stunk a stink I've never smelled before or since.

The article says nothing about why this business was raided in the first place, though. Never mind, that required a read of a related story, and they're not saying yet what prompted the raid.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/business/Exoti ... 76577.html

[spawner]

A PETA member working undercover for months led the march that ended with a raid on a North Texas exotic animal wholesaler.

Well that should raise some eyebrows are the wholesale/retail community.

PETA did the same thing in University of Utah, uncovering some pretty nasty stuff.

http://www.peta.org/FeatureUtahLabs.asp

[Snailman]

A PETA member working undercover for months led the march that ended with a raid on a North Texas exotic animal wholesaler.

Well that should raise some eyebrows are the wholesale/retail community.

PETA did the same thing in University of Utah, uncovering some pretty nasty stuff.

http://www.peta.org/FeatureUtahLabs.asp

This from the group that adopts animals and euthanizes them.