Danish Zoo Asks For Donations of Unwanted Animals,Pets to Help Feed Its Big Cats.

[Deeds]

https://www.9news.com.au/world/denmark-zoo-aalborg-animal-donations/140d8236-1f67-4d95-a494-5349153bcc36

[Rebanne]

I couldn't see myself donating a dog or cat but a horse, yes.

[_PL_]

Confronting stuff but everything eats something. 
For excess (too many to store/freeze) rabbit breeder wastage and cockerels it's better than people throwing them in the incinerator. Excess rats and mice often go to snake feeders anyway. Laboratories gas their excess guinea pigs etc.
 

They couldn't be thinking of cats and dogs could they?

[tdierikx]

8 hours ago, _PL_ said:

They couldn't be thinking of cats and dogs could they?

 

They probably wouldn't knock them back...

 

The reality is that carnivorous animals need a constant supply of meat and it has to come from somewhere. Any means that reduces financial costs involved with that would be considered I would think. The fact that this zoo isn't candy coating that fact is commendable, if a little disturbing to our way of thinking.

 

Would it surprise you to know that the farmyard section in many Australian zoos is not just there for visitors to enjoy domestic animals? Ever wondered what happens to excess piglets, goat kids, lambs, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc? Excess kangaroos and wallabies from the Australiana sections? Not that those sections make much of a dent in the overall feeding requirements for larger carnivores, but every little cost saving helps.

 

Another fact to remember is that European zoos are run slightly differently to our zoos here, and they don't sugar coat the fact that their carnivores eat meat and it has to come from somewhere. The public killing, dissection, and consequent feeding of the young giraffe to the lions some years ago at another Danish zoo probably went too far, but only because they did it in public... the reality is that it was going to happen anyway, and they made the decision to show the public that aspect of their practices.

 

It's interesting to watch people who think nothing of picking up a tray of meat from the supermarket for their own consumption getting all righteously indignant that carnivorous animals in zoos need a source of food too. Just putting it into perspective here. That tray of meat in the supermarket was once a living being too, yes? Are their deaths any less meaningful just because we don't see it happen? For the record, I eat meat, and know exactly where it has come from, but in knowing that, I also don't waste any of the meat that animal died to provide me with.

 

T.

[Mairead]

I heard a story of a tourist asking (in an African safari park?), why didn't they feed the lions a vegan diet?

The tour guide replied that it was because there weren't enough vegans available.

[persephone]

While it may appear shocking - I think their request is very sensible.

[sparkycat]

I would be happy for my body to be fed to the local lions - Monarto Zoo - I hate the whole funeral ripoff business

Edited August 6 by sparkycat

[BDJ]

As long as humanely done (which I am sure it is), then I see no problem.

 

One zoo in Australia(won't mention name in case some numnut hears about it) used to take horses (not sure if they still do).  They came to your property,  shot the horse there and removed it.  I can tell you that if you saw a horse killed instantly by an expert when it is happily and quietly munching on hay, most would understand that it is a much better way to go than any alternative i know of.