Exotic Exit: Sam Mazzola’s animals are on the move

19 Action News cameras were rolling Wednesday night as the lions, tigers, bears and other animals were hauled away.

Friday, they'll move the bears and that should be the end of the exotic farm.

Meantime, Mazzola's death is still under investigation as police search for a person who may have been with him in his last hours…see video

Owner of Ohio bear that killed caretaker dies during sexual role-playing

Sam Mazzola, 49, was found last week face down on his water bed, wearing a mask and with his arms and legs restrained, said Dr. Frank P. Miller III, a pathologist at the Lorain County coroner's office...more

Unadoptable dogs to be euthanized through lethal injection

ELYRIA — Lorain County commissioners Ted Kalo and Lori Kokoski voted yesterday to eliminate the use of a gas chamber at the Lorain County Dog Kennel and will instead euthanize unadoptable dogs by lethal injection, which animal activists said is more humane…

…Commissioners also approved a plan to spay and neuter the animals before they are adopted, which will decrease the general pet population and traffic into the kennel. Currently, individuals who adopt the dogs are given a voucher to take the animal to an approved veterinarian, however, only roughly 20 percent of those are redeemed, according to Kokoski…more