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Leopard removed from German family's home
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-18 11:06 BERLIN – 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. |