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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A new California measure aimed astatine preventing quality interaction with captive chaotic animals is raising concerns for Project Survival's Cat Haven successful Fresno County.
Project Survivals Cat Haven successful Dunlap is location to 40 exotic cats and provides visitors a accidental to spot them up close.
Assembly Bill 892 would prohibition nationalist encounters with definite captive chaotic animals.
"It stops radical from being capable to person that acquisition and really beryllium capable to marque a transportation to what we're trying to bash to prevention animals successful the wild," Dale Anderson, laminitis of Project Survival's Cat Haven, said.
Dale Anderson went to Sacramento for Monday's proceeding connected the bill. He said if passed, the authorities could person a large interaction connected his facility.
"You're limiting our quality to beryllium capable to effect alteration and marque radical funny successful what's going on," Anderson said.
Anderson has dedicated his beingness to educating others connected endangered chaotic cats for implicit 30 years. He said the measure heavy impacts his mission.
"When you spot things live, you perceive them purr, you perceive them, you know, bash what they do. It's a antithetic experience. And that's what touches people's hearts," Anderson said.
The measure exempts facilities accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, but Cat Haven is affiliated with the Animal Humane Organization, leaving Anderson uncertain astir its future.
"If you can't interaction people's lives, past we're not going to prevention these species. We're going to beryllium done, they'll each spell away," Anderson said.
