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Close to 30 reptiles including one Florida soft-shelled tortoise, were discovered in a Kitsilano apartment following the capture of a five-foot caiman outside the apartment on Tuesday.
Seems this story is a very popular one with the papers and the local radios at the moment.
From CKNW:
Just how exotic is Kitsilano?
Jun, 29 2006 - 12:30 AM
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - After nearly 30 exotic reptiles, including a five-foot alligator, were found at a Kitsilano apartment, a Vancouver City Councillor is hoping the incident will rally support for a bylaw to ban exotic pets.
Councillor Kim Capri says a bylaw is needed because the general public doesn't always know how to care for exotic pets, "The environment appeared to be sound and it was somebody who I believe was studying zoology who was keeping them, and yet you have situation where an animal has fallen off a building and they were probably trying to escape a situation where they were in distress."
Capri says City staff are studying several options for a possible exotic animal bylaw, but the options won't be presented to Council until the fall.
i've been trying SO hard to find news on this story, but the closest i've gotten was a subscribers-only story in the province!
ReplyDeleteand stone massages sound lovely...now i want one!
and BELLINIS=YUMMY!
p.s. blogger ate my last comment
except for Metro and CKNW, I haven't seen anything. I will check the Vancouver Sun when I go home tonight - and I'll look at yesterday's Sun too...
ReplyDeleteI hate it when blogger eats posts and comments for lunch. apparently the other sister translated the danish for us more than once, but bogger kept eating her comment.