Zoo urges people to donate their unwanted pets to feed their predators

Knight said:
Humans kill unwanted children
In the United States, approximately 2,350 children die daily due to abortion. Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, over 63 million abortions have been performed in the US. Globally, more than 32 million abortions occur annually.


I don't have a problem separating a loved pet from an animal [ dog cat, rats, gerbils, hamsters] that are unwanted & either abandoned or dropped off at a shelter. Those all could be euthanized due to space limits or funding.

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"It assures the public that the animals will be gently euthanized, so they won't know what's happening."


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Given the fact that dogs & cats even puppies are food for humans that have no problem with eating those. The Zoo gets attention for asking for unwanted pets. IMO asking for unwanted animals would not seem as cruel.
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You found some very interesting information! I guess, it just boils down to the individual, it's voluntary, not mandated
 

What happens in the wild stays in the wild, what happens in the zoo should be an entirely different matter.

It seems to me that several years ago a zoo was criticized for solving overpopulation problems among small animals by feeding them to larger predators in the zoo.

I understand it but I wouldnā€™t support it.
 

How is it cruel? if it is animals that are being euthanised anyway and it is done humanely why is it cruel for them then to be food rather than buried or cremated?
Just seems pragmatic to me.

We are not talking about feeding the zoo animals live food.
 
Why is a human life given more consideration and importance than an animal's? Is it based on intelligence?

If so does that mean a smart person has more rights than an average or slow person?

In my humble opinion human beings with our so called superior intelligence should have more of an obligation to take care of animals.

While I understand that animals are a food source (not for me!) how does that give us the right to treat them so horribly?
 
January said:
How is it cruel? if it is animals that are being euthanised anyway and it is done humanely why is it cruel for them then to be food rather than buried or cremated?
Just seems pragmatic to me.

We are not talking about feeding the zoo animals live food.
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To me and how I personally feel about the topic, it is cruel. I don't approve or like the overall concept.

Yes, I know we are not talking about feeding the zoo animals live food.

It remains an unwavering NO from me.
 
outlander said:
In my humble opinion human beings with our so called superior intelligence should have more of an obligation to take care of animals.

While I understand that animals are a food source (not for me!) how does that give us the right to treat them so horribly?
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well, your predator animals do need to be fed meat

we can't take care of meat eating animals without feeding them meat.
 

Zoo urges people to donate their unwanted pets to feed their predators​

Before they go down that road, it may be more prudent to feed some of the nasty, evil and cruel people to hungry preditors.
 
With all due respect, I submit that many people today seem to have no idea how animals DIE in the wild. All wild animals die and very, very few of them live into old age. Often their deaths are neither swift nor painless. Predation, disease, starvation, and misadventure are the norm.

Folks who like to wax poetic about the beauty of nature either don't understand, or are in denial with regard to the way nature works.
 
timoc said:
Do away with zoos altogether, allow wild animals to live in their natural habitat.
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Yes. This idea seemed to have started with the zoo keepers wanting to simulate life in the wild for their captives, but they'll never be able to do that simply by giving them meat that still has the fur on it verses raw hamburger or whatever.

I know that zoos serve an educational purpose and that some endangered species are protected and encouraged to mate in the zoos, but at bottom, it's a pretty cruel practice to capture a wild animal and keep it caged forever.

They'll never get my dachshund who will die in my arms and be buried in the backyard next to his beloved cat.
 
I can see both sides of this issue.
For something to live, something has to die. It's just a cold hard fact of life, whether we face it or not.
During my life, millions of plants and animals have given their life so I could live (Not willingly of course but appreciated nonetheless).
When I die, I want to return that.

If we feed our pets either wet or dry food, it most likely has animal byproducts. Cats are cousins to tigers and dogs are cousins to wolves. Even their fangs give them away. Whether it's tuna, or beef liver, or lamb, we are feeding other animals to our pets.
If animals are going to be euthanized for whatever reason, perhaps the idea has some merit.

On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, I prefer animals in the wild rather than zoos. I get that wolves are still going to kill and eat Bambi, and it's not going to be a humane encounter, but I'm not the instrument of their demise. Granted, it's fair to point out that if I buy and eat bacon, I am indirectly the instrument of it's demise, so I am somewhat of a hypocrite here.
 
bobcat said:
I think our natural reaction to this would be one instigated by the gruesome visual image of it in our mind, but if we can get past that, does it make us a heartless person to even consider it, or to pretend that a small animal just falls out of the sky to feed the zoo predators? Sometimes reality is not pretty. I think it goes without saying that we should make every effort to find new homes for pets, but what do shelters do with too many animals and not enough homes. They have to make the difficult choice. Should this be an alternative?
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Yes, it is indeed a gruesome image, enough that I don't want to think about it, even if it is practical.
 
Della said:
Yes, but the Donner party was eating it's own kind, not good practice. Cows being fed ground cows is how we got Mad Cow disease. This desire to feed small dogs and cats to lions and tigers is more like, humans eating chickens and pigs.
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I like to read the ingredients label on my food.
The cult classic Soylent Green is something you can never fully erase from your mind. :ROFLMAO:
 
I worked as a bartender one summer for a guy that was interested in tropical fish and who used to work in a pet store. In the bar, he had a huge tropical fish tank, probably over 50 gallons that was home for two Red Ciclids. I'm not sure how to spell that. I'd never heard of that fish before.

So one night the owner stops in at the bar, which he had left me in charge of, and he has a plastic bag filled with water and several live gold fish, which he empties into the tank. All the customers stopped talking and watched the Red Ciclids start tearing apart gold fish in a feeding frenzy. One customer comments, "Two sadist shows nightly!"

Of course that story doesn't compare to original post, but it made me remember that much less gruesome story.
 
bobcat said:
The cult classic Soylent Green is something you can never fully erase from your mind. :ROFLMAO:
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More than that, I remember the introduction to the scoops, "Clear the area. The scoops are coming!" They just scoop people up and dump them in trucks. Somewhere between that and the final reveal, I had figured out where Soylent Green came from. So I wasn't as surprised as Thorn was when it became clear.
 
JustDave said:
More than that, I remember the introduction to the scoops, "Clear the area. The scoops are coming!" They just scoop people up and dump them in trucks. Somewhere between that and the final reveal, I had figured out where Soylent Green came from. So I wasn't as surprised as Thorn was when it became clear.
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Probably a movie Jeffrey Dahmer shouldn't have watched. šŸ„“
 
I guess it depends on the source how people feel.

What qualifies as a pet?
pet, any animal kept by human beings.

The Zoo story many not OK with that.

The bible story of God's Zoo [The Arc] where animals kept by Noah not euthanized are used to feed other animals is OK.
 

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