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Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary in the News


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Riverside animal services confiscates mule deer apparently keep as a pet.

We never cease to be amazed by people's attempts to make wild animals into pets (as if there weren't enough domesticated animals out there in need of homes), and the Riverside County Department of Animal Services had a doozy of a case earlier this week when it confiscated a mule deer apparently being kept as a pet by a Glen Avon man. (It's illegal to keep a deer, along with many other species of wildlife, without a permit in California.)  

 

September 19, 2009                   
The La Times                Read full story 

by Lindsay Barnett

 


County says yes to Forever Wild's visitors center.

Planning Commission waives restriction for Wild animal shelter.                                      
June 19, 2009                   
Hesperia Star     Read full story
by Beau Yarbrough                               


Almquist's Forever Wild Showcased to America.

Millions of viewers gathered to watch one of 150 episodes of Extreme Home Makeover.

April 2, 2009
Mountaineer        Read full story
by Al Morrissette


County says no to Forever Wild's visitors center.

Exotic animal shelter must pave Phalan dirt road, at a cost of almost $1 million.                                           

March 31, 2009
Hesperia Star      Read full story
by Beau Yarbrough

Almquist family of Phelan will be featured in episode of Extreme Home Makeover.

January 31, 2009
Hesperia Star      Read full story

by Beau Yarbrough


200 reptiles abandoned in Hesperia

"This is absolutely the biggest reptile rescue I've ever done by far" Joel Almquist, owner of Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary.

February 6, 2008
Daily Press        Read full story
by Brooke Edwards

Plight of the Wild Ones

A 6-year-old black leopard with a long face and thinning coat yawned lazily in the desert sun stretching its bony legs to expose where its toes had been chopped off for use in voodoo rituals.

April 10, 2005
Los Angeles Times      Read full story
by Amanda Covarrubias


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