SUAMICO (WLUK) — After nearly a month on the run, the NEW Zoo in Suamico remains optimistic that escaped river otter Louie will return home.
On March 20, during Winter Storm Ezra, the NEW Zoo’s North American river otters, Louie and Ophelia, managed to escape their enclosure and eventually, the zoo facility.
“It was devastating, you know? You never expect anything like that to happen. You’ve heard stories of other facilities where it’s happened, but then when it happens to you, your heart drops,” says Lindsay Haen, the zoo’s senior zookeeper and the keeper for Louie and Ophelia…