yeah, there s a lion on mount perry road. i just drove by and it walked out in front of me and it was standing there. yeah, certainly something you don t expect to see in ohio. let alone anywhere across the country outside your front door. authorities do not know why thompson released the animals and they may never know that for sure because no suicide note was found on the property. thompson was released from prison a few weeks ago after serving a one year prison term on federal weapons charges. as for the weapons excuse me, as for the animals here at the zoo this morning, they are being kept in quarantine out of the general population, veterinarians here with the zoo will be checking on their health today and that s the primary concern, where they go from here is still up in the air. obviously, they are still legally owned by the thompsons over in muskegon county but jack hanna is working with them to try to figure out where they re going to go, whether it be here at the zoo or
tigers that we have had to put down. shepard: animal expert jack hanna says tranquilizing the animals was simply not an option. the sheriff knew he had to do what he had to do. we can t tranquilize animals in the dark. it upsets them and take it out on the deputies. shepard: jack hanna described the situation what it would like if noah s ark would have crashed in that small town. 50 animals escaped including 18 bengal tigers. 17 lions. six black bears. three criticizely bears. three mountain lions. two wolves, three leopards, three monkeys and that baboon. all of those wandering animals led to some pretty unusual 911 calls. 911, where is your emergency? yeah, there is a lion on mount perry road in gratiot. okay. where at on mount perry road? it s about probably a half a mile off 40. there is a big horse barn on the