This bothers me

[Trish Allearz]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/s...sia-for-animals.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

I hope you can read this article. General public said nay to exotic pet owners, but will typically say yay to well ran zoos. Yet, zoos are not natural either. The thought of taking cubs from their mom to kill them turns my stomach. What do you think?

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[Pam Flachs]

Me too....why can't the animals be spayed or neutered instead...or is it a draw for the public to see baby animals being raised by the parent animals....

 

[Trish Allearz]

Me too....why can't the animals be spayed or neutered instead...or is it a draw for the public to see baby animals being raised by the parent animals....

That's what I think it is, Pam. They said in the article, "Oh, nature dictates when we euthanize"- but except for the tigers that were accidentally bred (I think)- they let them go through the cutesie stage and then euth them. Well, damn- I'd prefer the birth control method they use in the United States. And I CANNOT imagine being a zookeeper, having to raise and care for these babies born in MY zoo, and then saying, "Well, let's slip the big needle with the pink fluid in your leg today!" I understand- it's population control, I understand in nature, some survive and some don't- but if we are going 'all natural'- let's let the animals breed on their OWN and then raise the babies ON THEIR OWN and then put the prey animals WITH them- the predators would keep the prey population down, right? At least that would be a start of being 'more natural'.

 

[admin]

OMG - I had no idea this went on in European zoos...makes me sick! To think of these animals being raised past the baby stage and then euthanized because????

BC, S/N anyone??? Hello??? I wonder if the people who visited the zoos knew this, what they would say? how barbaric!!!

 

[Sue Armstrong]

Wow what a terrible terrible shame.