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NOW HOLD ON! Scotty Campbell assists
two young children as they take rides on a
miniature horse.
Local road
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WHO GOES THERE? Michael, a
South American Llama, peeks out of
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his cage to see what is going on.
“Anyone who wants to start their own 2
should be caught in a net,” is not the typii
phrase expected from a man who started a zi
himself and has been at it for over 10 years. B
to Scotty Campbell it makes sense.
Campbell had a hobby—one that includi
animals. After spending several years of his li
in the South Pacific and coming in contact wi
many wild animals daily, Campbell wonder!
just what his relationship with these animals wa
His answer was to start what is known i
Scotty’s Roadside Zoo on South End Road
Oregon City.
His idea was to take in abandoned anima
that were still nursing, because he says they a
easier to tame and raise that way. Campbel
hobby soon went outside his budget, and he wi
faced with a definite problem.
“The costs exceeded my ability and
wondered how the heck I could keep th
going,” Campbell explained. “There is n
money to be made from a zoo.”
The roadside zoo is still a non-prol
organization. Campbell will argue that his thret
acre dedication to abandoned animals is not
zoo but a sanctuary. Today, the project is calle
the Trail’s End Wildlife Sanctuary, but due t
federal regulations it has the label as a roadsid
zoo.
“When a person hears of a ‘roadside zo<
they usually think of a bear tied to a tree. We ar
not that, but we still get that associated with us,
Campbell said.
Occupants at the sanctuary range from tw
parrots to Bosco, a white-faced Capuchi
monkey, to a 500 pound Siberian tiger the
Campbell took in as a stray and sick nine-da^
old cub. Along with the Siberian tiger and Bose
(both endangered species) there are two othe
animals that are currently on the brink of extinr
tion.
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