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A snake-handling pastor died in his home after being bitten on the finger by a rattlesnake while performing a Pentecostal Easter service.

A 75-lb ocelot escaped from the basement where she was kept as a “pet” and was thought to be prowling the woods around the ritzy community of North Shore.

A “pet” bobcat escaped from her enclosure and remained at large. This was the third incidence of the animal escaping and the possessor asked authorities to help locate her missing animal.

A Burmese python wrapped tightly around its possessor and bit down on her wrist for more than twenty minutes before police arrived to remove the snake.

An escaped “pet” wolf was recaptured and taken to an Animal Control facility where he waited for his “owner” to claim him. It is illegal to keep a wolf in the city of Philadelphia.

Two cotton-top tamarin monkeys were reported missing from their cage.

Jabari, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla, escaped from his two-acre enclosure at the Dallas Zoo and attacked several people before charging at police officers, who fired three shots, killing him. Jabari bit a 26-year-old mother and her 3-year-old son several times and threw them against a wall. Two others were also injured during the gorilla’s 40-minute rampage. Police evacuated about 300 people from the zoo compound.

A woman found a 2-ft-long alligator her flower bed.

A 4-year-old was mauled by one of her grandmother’s “pet” cougars. The child was hospitalized with head bruises and an eye injury.

NYC Animal Care and Control confiscated 6 illegally owned monkeys, 2 squirrel monkeys, 2 marmosets, and 2 capuchins and a tarantula from a studio apartment. The man was allowed to keep his 2 dogs and a cat.