Police uncover stash of exotic animals in NY housing project

By David Ariosto CNN.com NEW YORK — Animal control authorities removed 13 exotic pets from an apartment in a New York housing project, where the animals — which included two small alligators — were mostly kept in glass fish tanks, the NYPD said on Saturday. Police officers had been conducting an unrelated search Friday afternoon when they came across two bearded dragons, two alligators ...

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It's a good thing here in New York City owning these animals is illegal. And when they run across them they're taken away and whoever owns the apartment is arrested and fined. I wonder when Florida will pass a law like this. In that state, you can buy exotic animals. But when they get too big, people just abandon them in the swamp. Thus, the law has to be changed to protect the citizens of Florida.