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While a $500 reward is still up for grabs for justice for Curly, the gerbil, the AHS/Popcorn Zoo says a hamster was also abandoned and is nowhere to be found.

The Associated Humane Societies and Popcorn Park is offering a reward leading to the arrest of the person who abandoned a gerbil in a filthy cage behind the Barnegat Motel.

"He was just always young at heart all the time. We were just very fortunate he shared his life with us," Popcorn Park Zoo director John Bergman said about the 20 year old tiger.

These animals' unique stories are what keep people coming to the animal refuge — or keep coming back.

Just when you think you’ve seen everything in New Jersey.

Unlike some of the larger zoos around the region the Popcorn Park Zoo is a haven for animals who have been rescued, and can now live a better life.

Hope was found in the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area. A $1,000 reward is being offered for information about who abandoned her.

Officials say the swan was acting aggressively, attacking paddle-boarders and people on jet skis.

The ongoing tale of Rocky the Bobcat took another twist when the 38 pound feline escaped yet again from its owner – only to be recaptured in a humane trap – and sent off to the Popcorn Park zoo. Rocky’s owner, Ginny Fine of Beach Haven West, had agreed to place the bobcat – which had escaped a couple of previous times – in an enclosure...

A Stafford woman named Ginny Fine owns a 38 pound bobcat hybrid she calls Rocky. It turns out the bobcat had gone missing since March 25th, but returned home this weekend, only to be carted off to the Popcorn Park Zoo in Lacey Township pending a court hearing to determine whether or not Rocky stays with Fine...