Inn housekeeper sues Paso’s traveling zoo

A Paso Robles-based educational traveling zoo is named as a defendant in a Florida lawsuit with a Hampton Inn employee who claims remnants of its animals — lemurs, a spider monkey, an alligator and a parrot — made her sick while they were staying where she worked.

Arlin Valdez-Castillo blames chronic medical problems on exposure to bird feces, monkey dander and other alleged hazards from the exotic guests after cleaning rooms rented by the animals’ handlers for eight days in February 2004 at the Hampton Inn Miami Airport West in Miami, Fla.

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Tagged as: Airports, Alligators, Animals, Arlin Valdez-Castillo, Birds, Dander, Employees, Exotic Animals, Feces, Florida, Hampton Inn, Lemurs, Medical Problems, Miami, Monkeys, Parrots, Paso Robles, Spider Monkeys, Zoos

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