Safe home for wild and exotic animals

Q&A: Kevin Cunningham

Bad for the animal involved, bad for us through transmission of diseases, bites etc and potentially bad for the environment that the animal was removed from, and bad for our own environment if an exotic animal escapes and naturalises.

The National Exotic Animal Sanctuary (NEAS) were called to an abandoned house in Carlow recently where someone had moved out, leaving some 100 lethal spiders and scorpions behind them.