Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets Book

Contents

Introduction: From Butterflies to Big Cats, Great Apes, and Long Snakes....................ix
Chapter One Unexpected Mayhem: Travis Attacks Charla Nash....................1
Chapter Two Monkey Smuggler: Survivalist Fran Ogren Conspires with Her Daughter....................8
Chapter Three Federal Case: The Prosecutor and Gypsy Lawson's Pet....................21
Chapter Four Attempted Amnesty: Connecticut's Animal Control Czar Susan Frechette Tries to Corral Unwanted Pets....................30
Chapter Five Stop Cat Sales: Tippi Hedren's Second Career....................42
Chapter Six Who Belongs to Whom? Philosophers Mark Rowlands and Peter Singer Weigh In....................60
Chapter Seven Crimes for Pets: Roller Pigeons Attract the Fish and Wildlife Service....................71
Chapter Eight Chimps as Children: Roberta and Her Apes....................79
Chapter Nine Trapped Together: Connie Casey and Chimpanzee Factory....................89
Chapter Ten Travis's Mother: Gunned Down....................101
Chapter Eleven Shambala: Are Wild Things Forever Wild?....................106
Chapter Twelve Servals, Spider Monkeys, and Zedonks: An Exotic Auction in Missouri....................117
Chapter Thirteen Zeus by the Side of the Road: The Myth of the White Tiger....................124
Chapter Fourteen Rampant Trafficking: You Can Get Anything You Want....................131
Chapter Fifteen A Conscientious Merchant: Selling New World Snakes in the Old World....................141
Chapter Sixteen Florida's Python Plague: A Snake Seller's Perspective....................152
Chapter Seventeen Mark McCarthy's Tigers: The Best of a Bad Scenario....................164
Chapter Eighteen No Kissing the Cats: The PETA Girl and the Cheetah Lady....................174
Chapter Nineteen An Absurd Infestation: The Everglades Amok with Pythons....................180
Chapter Twenty Macro Problem, Micro Reality: Snake Hunters Stalk the Wild Florida Pythons....................198
Chapter Twenty-One "I Know It When I See It": The Old Hippie and the Professor Try to Define a Pet....................207
Chapter Twenty-Two Getting Marked in Pahrump: Picasso the Tiger Sprays Your Correspondent from Head to Toe....................213
Chapter Twenty-Three Good People: Strange Hobby....................222
Epilogue: We're All at Least a Little Wild....................229
Acknowledgments....................230
Notes....................233
Index....................240
About the Author....................251