WISCONSIN -- A New Jersey man visiting an ostrich farm on Washington Island last month was bitten by a camel, according to a Door County Sheriff’s Department report.
Ronald Corey, 68, Morristown, N.J., and his family were touring the Double K Ostrich Farm at 1928 W. Harbor Road on July 19 when the top of his left wrist was bitten by the farm’s 12-year-old male camel, Ollie.
Ostrich farm owner Kristi Oscor told the deputy she was aware Corey was bit but that he seemed apologetic when it happened. Oscor told the deputy she looked Corey’s wrist and it wasn’t bleeding.
She was going to get a Band-Aaid from the house, she said, but there were back-to-back tours coming through and the Corey family was so upset they rushed to the island clinic.
Corey received three stitches and the county sanitarian’s office referred the incident to the state Division of Health, which said the camel needed to be quarantined for 30 days.
Ollie was quarantined to his pen as of July 20. The camel can stay on display but can have no feeding by the general public. He is to be seen by a veterinarian three times and is not be sold or moved and will not be euthanized.
(Door County Advocate - August 3, 2012)
