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A Narcotics Task Force found a 2-ft-long alligator during a drug bust. The alligator was turned over to a Riverbank reptile rescue facility.

The Department of Natural Resources issued a report regarding tiger who escaped from his enclosure and was shot and killed by his possessor on the Monongahela National Forest property.

A serval cat that escaped his possessor last month was shot and killed as he attacked a flock of chickens in their coop.

Stray dogs entered the Jackson Zoo and killed two 6-month-old Dama gazelles on loan from the Memphis Zoo and five pink flamingos. Zoo officials said they would install security upgrades.

A Chilean Flamingo that escaped from his enclosure at the Blank Park Zoo was recovered hours later on a golf course.

Little Creek Ranch is issued a quarantine notice after State agricultural officials discovered a shipment of illegal feral hogs being transported to the ranch tested positive for pseudo rabies. (www.gjsentinel.com)

A 16-year-old volunteer zoo guide was bitten by a 5-year-old Bengal tiger when he grabbed her arm through his cage. The victim suffered severe lacerations.

Two baboons and three tortoises died in a fire at a roadside zoo, The Snake Farm. Investigators believed a faulty heat lamp caused the fire.

A deputy sheriff shot a missing wolf-hybrid . Animal Control arrived to find the animal shot five times but still alive. The animal died in transit and the case was being investigated.

A 16-year-old girl was attacked and bitten by a cougar and suffered non-life threatening injuries. Authorities arrested a 21-year-old male friend who falsely portrayed himself as the cat’s possessor and broke into the home taking the girl with him. Police arrested the man and charged him with burglary.