HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-- A Long Island town says a business that allows customers to hold, feed and now sell sloths is defying a court order to stop operating. Its owner claims he's complying with the law.

Sloth Encounters, a Hauppauge business that charges $50 per half-hour to hold, feed and pet sloths, lacks a permit and was operating in violation of the Suffolk sanitary code, a county official said.

The owner of the Hauppauge-based sloth exhibition business who has continued to advertise sloths and other exotic pets despite a March court order is now facing Islip Town and state charges that could ...

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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-- There's more legal trouble for a Long Island business owner who sells sloths. The Suffolk County Supreme Court ordered the store to stop operating as a pet store or petting zoo or ...

The owner of the pet store claims the teen didn't follow instructions and got too close to the sloth, who he says mistook her arm for an apple. Sloths move about six feet per minute but even these ...