A tip led authorities to the family home on Tuesday, where the exotic animals were allegedly found packed in cages
A Long Island man allegedly hoarded 100 animals, some of which were exotic and even endangered, in his basement and backyard, according to investigators — who said he wasn’t shy about showing them off to make some quick cash.
As part of the stunning find in the North Bellmore home of 32-year-old Matthew Spohrer, the Nassau County SPCA confiscated a young South American ostrich, otherwise known as a rhea, named Eddie.
How did Eddie end up at the home? Ebay, apparently.
“He actually said that he ordered the rhea on Ebay as an egg when he was drunk. This was a stupid mistake,” said John Di Leonardo, an anthrozoologist and the executive director of Humane Long Island. “[Spohrer’s] been seen and photographed numerous times with this rhea in public, taking it to the fair, train stations, pet stores.”
The positive thing about this incident though is where it happened and the resources available to those animals, like the North Shore Animal League, which usually does outstanding work with situations like this, and then there’s the Bronx Zoo, which may have a pretty troubled past, but leads a network of zoos and sanctuaries, so these animals will get taken care of most likely.
This idiot though should get the book thrown at him, and probably will.
I hope they really do throw a book and a brick at him and send him to prison for life, like that sick idiot they tried to make a documentary series out of, “the Lion king” or whatever the hell his stupid name was. He was an animal abuser and animal hater and he deserves to rot in prison for the things he’s done.