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.
Read the full storyFour 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.
Read the full storyDarwin 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.
Read the full storyFive 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.
Read the full storyA 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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