UPDATE: Stafford Judge Orders Rocky The Bobcat To Live At the Popcorn Park Zoo Permanently

It wasn’t the outcome Ginny Fine wanted to hear.

But she reluctantly agreed to relinquish her pet hybrid bobcat Rocky to the Popcorn Park Zoo permanently, after a hearing in Stafford Township Municipal Court today, according to the Asbury Park Press.

Municipal Court Judge Damien G. Murray also fined Fine $500 and ordered her to pay $560 in restitution to the Popcorn Park Zoo where Rocky had stayed during the other times he had been banished from Fine’s Beach Haven West home, the Asbury Park Press said.

Rocky, a 38-pound Bobcat mix, has lived with Fine in her Beach Haven West home most of his life. But he has a penchant for escaping, much to the chagrin of a few neighbors.

Fine had a new enclosure built for Rocky earlier this year, but he managed to escape several more times. Municipal Court Judge Damian G. Murray ordered Rocky back to the Popcorn Park Zoo after his most recent escape.

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