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USFWS: Service Seeks Public Comment on Plan To Restrict Giant Invasive Snakes (Deadline 5/11/2010) 3/11/2010 NEW More HERE

 GENERIC WILD TIGERS? By Zuzana Kukol, March 2010 NEW

RICO Lawsuit: Feld Entertainment, Inc., vs. Animal Rights Groups 2/16/2010 NEW

 Captive Big Cat Related Human Fatalities in the USA by State and Species, Yearly and Lifetime Odds: 1990 - 2008 

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP IS SAVING TIGERS FROM EXTINCTION By Zuzana Kukol, February 2010 NEW

Rattlesnakes for Pets in Utah? By Deeanna Croasmun,The Wendover Times, 2/12/2010 NEW

Captive big cats not a public safety issue By Zuzana Kukol, 2/4/2010

Salazar Moves to Ban Importation and Interstate Transfer of Burmese Python and Eight Other Giant Invasive Snakes 1/20/2010 NEW

2010 State Exotic Animal Legislation: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington NEW

Political 'Benedict Arnolds' By David Rice – DR_Sparktrician, February 2010 NEW
Emergency tips on keeper and rescue personnel safety in case of an animal attack By Zuzana Kukol

Basics of Chain Link Fence Construction for Large Predators By Zuzana Kukol, Winter 2009/2010

New Delaware State Regulations 1/1/2010 NEW

FAQ: USA FEDERAL BILLS H.R. 2811 and S. 373 to Include Python genera as an Injurious Animal Winter 2009/2010 NEW
Animal Planet performs another half-donkey job with their new propaganda ridden and unbalanced exotic animal series 1/8/2010 NEW

Civil Reptile Rights Activist March in 2010 December 2009

CAPTIVE PYTHONS AND BOAS IN THE USA: Separating Facts from Fiction flyer December 2009

Letter to Oprah Winfrey regarding the segment on Charla Nash and chimpanzee Travis 11/13/2009

Andean Cat Conservation, Dr. Jim Sanderson August 2009

 Training to handle 'exotic' 911 calls By Mark Waite, PVT, 8/26/2009  NEW VIDEO Lions, Tigers & EMTs

That Horse Bit Me: Zoonotic Infections of Equinesto Consider after Exposure Through the Bite or the Oral/Nasal Secretions Equine Bites By Ricky Langley, MD, MPH, Thomas Morris, MD, MPH, July 2009

 Issues of captivity and conservation surrounding pantherine cats with a focus on the lion (Panthera leo) and the tiger (Panthera tigris)
A SENIOR THESIS PRESENTED TO The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA By Karen R. Lovely, March 2009

"It's like herding cat people: Managing Confrontation with Diplomacy" By Mindy Stinner, The Conservators' Center, July 2009

 Lawsuit: Alfred M. Boyajian vs. Georgia (DNR, City of Atlanta) 7/6/2009

How to Make an Ugly Metal or Plastic Tub Look Nice for Captive Animals By Zuzana Kukol, Summer 2009 VIDEO

 PYTHON ISSUES continually updated
 NO HR 669 Must See Website  HR 669 FACTS HERE

"Animal Rights:" Pernicious Nonsense For Both Law & Public Policy By Richard K. Latimer, Attorney at Law, May 2009

The Myth of the Wild  By Brenda Scott Royce, 12/27/2008 

Why we buried our mom in a pet cemetery By Robin Washington 

Why do we run away from acknowledging that many of our wild or exotic animals are pets? By Betsy Whitlock, 12/31/2008

DHS: Ecoterrorism: Environmental and Animal-Rights Militants in the United States May 2008

Taking the Unsafe out of the Unexpected By FCF May/June 2008
Proposed Federal Ban on Exotic Cats + Nevada Wolf-Dog Alert
Captive Bear, Big Cat, Elephant, Constrictor and Venomous Snakes Related Human Fatalities in the USA by State and Type, Yearly and Lifetime Odds
What is a True Exotic Animal Sanctuary? By Zuzana Kukol, September 2008 Unedited Version HERE
Hypocritical sanctuaries NEW OPERATION SAVE "BUBBA" - WAO White Tiger
INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICS OF ANIMAL LEGISLATION By Genevieve Wall, Attorney at Law Fall/Winter 2007 (6.6MB, PDF)
Big Cat Safety, Handling and Training By Dr. Bhagavan Antle

 

TOTAL NUMBERS AND ODDS OF AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH IN THE USA BY CAUSE OF INJURY in 2005: comparing human fatalities caused by captive exotic and wild animals (average from 1990 – 2008) to deaths caused in the course of a normal daily routine in every day life in 2005.  REXANO, only used fatalities numbers since all deaths are reported and there is only one degree of death. Injuries in all walks of life range from life threatening to simple Band-Aid fix, and many go unreported. The average life expectancy of 77 years was used to calculate the lifetime odds. The odds are statistical averages for the whole U.S. population. The vast majority of those killed by exotic animals are the trainers, handlers and owners. The real chance of a member of the general public getting killed by an exotic animal is lower than the averages in the table below; the same way a non alcoholic is not likely to be killed by excessive alcohol consumption.

 

Cause of Death in 2005

Number of Deaths per Year

One Year Odds

Lifetime Odds

Captive non-human primate

0*

0

0

Alligator, crocodile

 0**

0

0

Captive bear

0.16**

1 in 1,901,875,000

1 in 24,700,000

Non venomous snake

0.44**

1 in 691,590,909

1 in 8,981,700

Captive elephant

0.72**

1 in 422,638,888

1 in 5,488,816

Venomous snake

0.88**

1 in 345,795,454

1 in 4,490,850

Captive big/exotic cat

1.1**

1 in 276,636,363

1 in 3,592,680

Fireworks discharge

4

         74,126,765

         952,786

Flood

12

        24,708,922

        317,595

Toys

20

       14,825,352

               190,557

Struck by or against another person

26

       11,404,118

        146,582

Bitten or struck by dog

33

        8,985,062

       115,489

Contact with hot tap-water

43

        6,895,513

          88,631

Lightning

48

        6,177,230

         79,399

Contact with hornets, wasps, bees

82

        3,615,940

         46,477

Drowning and submersion while in or falling into bath-tub

344

          861,939

         11,079

Alcohol

346

           856,957

         11,015

Fall on/from ladder, scaffolding

477

           621,608

           7,990

Accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed

573

           517,464

           6,651

Drowning and submersion while in or falling into swimming-pool

607

           488,480

           6,279

Cataclysmic storm***

874

           339,253

           4,361

Fall involving bed, chair, furniture

899

           329,819

           4,239

Drowning and submersion while in or falling into natural water

1,603

           184,970

           2,378

Fall on and from stairs and steps

1,690

           175,448

           2,255

Exposure to smoke, fire, flames

3,197

             92,745

           1,192

Narcotics and psychodysleptics

11,050

             26,833

              345

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter

16,692

            17,763

              228

Motor-Vehicle Accidents

45,343

             6,539

                84

Sources: U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, National Safety Council, National Center for Health Statistics, FBI, U.S. Census, animal attack news reports NOT be classified as animal ‘attack’, just like a nurse or doctor being accidentally infected with a blood from an AIDS patients can not be called a murder.
** Based on 18 year average 1990-2008 numbers, since the fatalities numbers per year are low (statistically insignificant)
(*** ) Includes hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, dust storms, and other cataclysmic storms

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