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A “pet” bobcat mauled a 2-year-old boy. The bobcat chewed off the boy’s heel, bit his cheek, and caused the loss of his right index finger. The day before the incident, the bobcat escaped from the house and growled and lunged at several children on the street.

A 6-year-old boy had bloody diarrhea for 10 days’ duration, abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever, and his 3-year-old brother developed diarrhea. Both boys were diagnosed with Salmonella, which they received from the family’s two “pet” snakes.

A lion at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center bit the left arm of a man who stuck it inside the animal’s cage. The man suffered ligament damage and a broken arm.

A “pet” cougar escaped from his chain-link cage and startled neighbors when they spotted the cougar in their backyard.

A tiger mauled a keeper at the Savage Kingdom exotic cat breeding compound, severely mangling the man’s leg.

A 2 year old girl lost part of her pinky finger when she reached into a bear cage at the annual Shrine Circus in Stadium Arena.

A tiger escaped from the Wild Animal Orphanage, killed a duck and an ostrich, and wounded a llama before being caught.

A “pet” capuchin monkey turned on his possessor and nearly killed her, severing her thumb and part of her index finger and slicing her legs.

A 10-ft-long python escaped from an aquarium after he broke the glass of his aquarium and pushed aside 60 lbs of weights placed on the top of the cage. The snake went on a rampage in his “owner’s” home before three people recaptured him and placed him in a sack. The snake was later killed.

A woman found a 3-ft-long python in her toilet. A police officer removed the python and planned to keep the snake unless the “owner” was found. The snake probably came in through a wall of the woman’s apartment.