Instead, he sentenced the 50-year-old to 300 hours unpaid work and banned him from keeping animals.

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They also believe keeping animals in zoos and aquariums where there are high death rates is permissible.

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As for keeping animals and vegetation safe, so far 12, 000 personnel have gone through quarantine management training.

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He also dismissed an appeal against Gough's sentence and ban on keeping animals.

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But there are those that disagree with the idea of keeping animals confined.

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Larger zoos employ behaviouralists to think up ways of keeping animals mentally alert.

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Some of this use arises because of intensive farming methods: keeping animals shut up in pens or battery sheds makes them more prone to disease, which leads farmers to use antibiotics.

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He stocked the park with deer and erected a wall along its perimeter, keeping the animals in and the commoners out.

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Posters issued by Birmingham City Council in Sutton Park recommended keeping children and pets away from grazing animals and washing hands, particularly before eating or drinking.

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Farmers have started killing their animals, unable to meet the cost of keeping them alive.

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This does not include the often high costs of taking back those now mature animals from buyers not able to live up to keeping their pet.

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"If they don't have the staff or they don't have the people to look after their animals properly, then they shouldn't be keeping them, " she said.

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The report says unless the animals' health and psychological suffering can be addressed, the ethics of keeping elephants in zoos must be questioned.

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Hoenig, the Maine state veterinarian, said the allegations included keeping too many birds in cases, failing to treat injured chickens or promptly remove dead animals, and improper euthanization.

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The park's keeping of wolves has attracted criticism in the past from campaigning group OneKind, formerly Advocates for Animals.

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