Exotic Incident #1860

Incident Date:
09/28/2012
Location:
Vienna, VA - USA
Facility Name:
Reston Zoo
Facility Type:
Non-accredited Facility (RSZ)
Incident Category:
Animal Death (AD)
Species:
Other
Animal:
Wallaby
Animal disposition:
Dead

Summary:

Meghan Mogensen, the director for the Reston Zoo, was found guilty of drowning a wallaby in a plastic bucket. A curator testified that animals had been euthanized in shocking ways at this zoo including rabbits getting slammed into walls, shootings, and chickens being fed to pythons.

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