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Deadwood Approves Ordinance Prohibiting ‘exotic’ Animals

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DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — City officials in Deadwood have approved an ordinance that prohibits wild, dangerous and exotic animals from being kept as pets within city limits.

The ordinance was proposed in June a month after state regulators ruled a Minnesota woman could house wolf pups and fox kits at a wildlife education center in the town. The city commission approved the new city rules this week.

Commissioner Dave Ruth says the ordinance protects residents from people who want to house dangerous animals in the town.

Anyone who currently owns exotic animals will be grandfathered in under the ordinance.

The ordinance originally would have banned pet birds and would have eliminated someone’s grandfathered status if they were involved in a legal or lost their license in another state. That language was removed.

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