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The six that survived were taken to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and placed under quarantine.The event prompted legislation that would put strict regulations on owners and ban future ownership of exotic animals.One year later, memories from that night still are vivid for the people involved, and owners of exotic animals will have to decide whether to keep large pets that many consider part of the family.As John Moore sits on his back porch near Fairfield Beach, a little sadness creeps into his eyes as he watches his two lionesses play with their toys.For nearly 15 years, Moore was the caretaker at Thompson's farm on Kopchak Road near Zanesville. That ended Oct. 18, 2011, when Thompson released his animals and committed suicide.Moore arrived at the farm with Muskingum sheriff's Sgt. Steve Blake a little after 5 p.m. that night, he said, just after deputies had been alerted to the roaming animals. Moore said he and Blake initially were looking for Thompson.Entering the garage after walking along a pathway lined with cages that once held lions, tigers and bears, Blake handed Moore a gun."

I didn't need a gun," Moore said."I had to push two lions, one of them was Kenya, out of the way just to get in the house. I locked them up in their pens. We saw Anton, Cleo and Anthony in their cages, but they never came out."Anton, Cleo and Anthony were three panthers who would later be taken to the Columbus Zoo . Cleo and Anthony were returned to Terry's wife, Marian Thompson, earlier this year. Anton was euthanized at the zoo after a steel door slammed down on his neck as he was being transferred from one cage to another.Moore said he was told that if animals didn't come out of their cages, they would be safe. Walking back outside, still thinking he might find Terry Thompson, Moore noticed something out of the corner of his eye."It was Terry," Moore said. "He was lying behind the cages in the field, and I just couldn't believe it."A white tiger was near Thompson's body, making it impossible for the men to get too close. Also close to Thompson's body was the .357 Magnum that Thompson is thought to have used to kill himself.

Moore said he saw three lions locked in their cages behind the barn."Then there was Jocelyn," Moore said. "She was pregnant and nesting in her cage. Last Minute Movers HamiltonShe was all the way to the back, and I know her cage was locked. Homes For Sale By Owner The Dalles OregonEven if it hadn't been, she wasn't about to come out."Cheap Tyres WicklowAlso in the front cages were white tiger cubs, Moore said, that weren't much bigger than a medium-sized dog and a baby lion, Elisa, who weighed about 80 pounds."They didn't need to be shot," Moore said. "If their cages were unlocked or cut, I would have had no problem getting them back in."Moore said he had played with the tigers and cubs and they were dependent on him."Even the two wolves I might have been able to get back in their cages," he said.

"I used to play fetch with them."One wolf was shot and the other was hit by a car on Interstate 70 that night.The sounds of the animals being shot will never leave Moore's memory."I watched the animals getting shot from the gate," Moore said. "I told (sheriff's Capt. Jeff) LeCocq I could get them back in their cages, but they looked at me like I was stupid."Sheriff Matt Lutz said he is not sure what Moore saw that night or why he hasn't said anything before if he felt things were not handled right.Lutz said he had no reports of any animals that were locked securely in their cages or in a secure area being shot unnecessarily by his deputies."I'm not refuting what John is saying," Lutz said. "But I do know he never asked me or told me he could get any of the animals back in their cages. I know he spent most of the night organizing a list for us so we would know what was there."Blake never had to fire a shot Oct. 18, but he says he'll never forget the sound of the bullets ripping through the air as he drove Special Response Team members around the farm.

Blake found two monkeys inside Thompson's house, screaming. In the barn, rats scurried everywhere as deputies shot the larger animals. And he'll never forget the tiger who came face-to-face with the truck before it was shot."It was like in a war zone, just automatic rifle fire," he said. "I've thought about it every day since then, at least in passing."In the days afterward, people from across the country, left scathing messages at the sheriff's office, criticizing the decision to shoot the animals. Blake said those were some of the most hateful, irrational messages he's ever heard.He agrees to give interviews, even though he's tired of talking about that night, because he wants people to know what it was really like, that it wasn't just a bunch of rednecks having fun shooting tigers and bears."I've said this before: Nobody was laughing. Nobody was having fun. It was a serious, professional police operation," he said. "I want people to understand: This was something we had to do."Moore spent the next day at the farm burying all the animals."

I cried like a baby," Moore said. "It was the worst thing. I loved those animals. I bathed them, fed them, played with them and took care of them."It's bad enough losing Terry like that. But then to lose the very things he loved most in the world -- that's just heartbreaking."Moore said the five animals that have been returned to Marian Thompson -- the two panthers, a bear and two monkeys -- all are doing well.Terry Thompson's actions started a chain reaction that night. Now Moore, like hundreds of other exotic-animal owners in Ohio, faces a choice: register his exotic animals or risk losing them to the state. Owners have until Nov. 5 to register their animals with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, and a ban on owning exotic animals will take place Jan. 1, 2014.Moore plans to register his animals before the deadline. While he thinks laws and regulations should be in place, he also thinks the government should not limit ownership or how many animals a person can own."As long as I do it safely and care for my animals, it's my business," Moore said.