Then having identified who owned these animals, the law could later have been tightened to its current position. Interestingly, Northern Ireland is still exempt from the Dangerous Wild Animals Act. An escaped Black Leopard cub was recaptured in East Peckham in 1975. A Leopard Cat was shot in Devon in 1988. A Snow Leopard was recaptured at Welwyn in 1994.
Escapes go on.
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