
Rosa — Another Illegal Exotic Pet Surrendered
Rosa is a young capuchin monkey who was anonymously surrendered at Rescue Zoo in July 2025. She comes from a private home where she was kept as an illegal pet.
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Rosa is a young capuchin monkey who was anonymously surrendered at Rescue Zoo in July 2025. She comes from a private home where she was kept as an illegal pet.
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Kato was forcibly removed by police from a private owner in France. He had been living in very poor and violent conditions.
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Two kinkajous arrived on 4 August 2024 and have gradually become comfortable in their daily life and routines.
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The serval Noah spent 7 years living in very cramped conditions with a private owner in Belgium. Now he is getting a permanent home with us.
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At Odsherred Zoo Rescue, it is not only exotic animals that find safety. Our horses typically come from private homes where the owner can no longer care for them.
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Isis was forcibly removed from a private owner in Belgium due to illegal keeping of exotic animals and neglect. Nequ arrived in 2024 after being rescued from poor conditions.
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Four farm foxes rescued from euthanasia at Denmark's last fox farm. Fox farming was banned in 2017, but this farm was granted a phase-out licence until 2024.
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In the spring of 2023, a 14-week-old caracal was anonymously left in our car park. The cat had been bought as an exotic pet in Germany and smuggled into Denmark.
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Anton came to Rescue Zoo from Givskud Zoo in 2017 as a surplus animal. After over five years of searching, we finally found Farah, a female camel with a herniated disc.
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Eight pelicans rescued from an Italian travelling circus found a new permanent home at Odsherred Zoo Rescue.
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Darwin was bullied by the other tortoises at Jesperhus Zoo and had to be isolated. The zoologists contacted Odsherred Zoo Rescue.
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Luna and Nala are two beautiful European lynxes who were forcibly removed from a small Danish zoo in 2011. They were only seven months old.
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In the autumn of 2013, Odsherred Zoo Rescue received 18 Java macaques from a Belgian testing centre, where they had been used in cosmetics industry experiments.
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Five genets acquired in 2011 through AAP in the Netherlands. Andorra was seized by Dutch police in 2009, small, weak, with ear and eye infections.
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Carlos is the son of gibbons Mozart and Constance. When he was just one month old, his mother developed mastitis and could no longer nurse him.
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Nana the gibbon arrived as a frightened and lonely infant wrapped in a bundle of clothes, only one year old, from a German zoo that could not manage her care.
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A capuchin family came from a French university where they had been used for medical research. They arrived at Odsherred Zoo Rescue on 28 June 2006.
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