Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:32pm GMTBERLIN (Reuters) - A fully-grown female leopard that lived with a German family for 18 months will be moved to a new home after authorities said the owners held no licence to keep the animal in their residential neighbourhood.
The family in the town of Weyhe, in northern Germany, had built a 1,400-sq-metre leopard park without an official permit, local authorities said.
"Keeping a leopard in a residential area is simply not allowed in Germany," said Heinz-Juergen Greszik, spokesman for local authorities.
Germany's Tierschutzbund, an animal rights organisation, said wild animals should not be kept in private households.
"Why can't these people have a dog or a cat?" said Thomas Schroeder from the Tierschutzbund.
The animal will be moved to an appropriate home.
(Reporting by Franziska Scheven, Berlin Newsroom)
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""Why can't these people have a dog or a cat?" said Thomas Schroeder from the Tierschutzbund."
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Mr. Schroeder appreciates that the family in question have got a cat - OK maybe not normal household kitty, but the last I heard, a Leopard is a cat.