Two European zoos commit outrageous acts.

[Catherine]

Nuremberg Tiergarten Zoo has been threatening to kill 12 healthy Baboons. They went ahead and did it. That is bad. They made it worse by feeding the baboons to their lions and Tigers.  

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ger...623c&ei=22

People are very upset and Animal Rights groups are protesting.
Killing primates like that is unacceptable. Just feeding them off afterwards is callous behavior.

A zoo in Denmark takes callousness to a whole new level. They are asking people to bring in small animal pets so they can feed them to their carnivores.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/zoo...623c&ei=75

This  lets people get rid of unwanted pets by letting a zoo kill them and feed them to their animals.
This allows people to have pets for a while and then the zoo will take them. It is letting people think of their pets as disposable.
You can enjoy a young cute animal and then you can get rid of it. The zoo can produce cute babies to show the public then they can kill them and feed them to other animals.
It is callous and irresponsible. I think it is disgusting.

[LPC]

(08-05-2025, 03:22 PM)Catherine Wrote: This  lets people get rid of unwanted pets by letting a zoo kill them and feed them to their animals. This allows people to have pets for a while and then the zoo will take them. It is letting people think of their pets as disposable. You can enjoy a young cute animal and then you can get rid of it.

Yes, Catherine. This has been on many news sites, including the BBC. You are absolutely right: the donation of unwanted pets instils the notion that pets are disposable possessions.

I am also disturbed by the sentence "It offered assurances that the pets will be "gently euthanized" by trained staff." No mention of this being done by vets, merely "trained staff". Trained by whom, to what level of expertise?

More importantly, what is this "gentle euthanasia"? Vets use special chemicals, which render the animal unconscious and then stop the heart. But animals euthanised in this way cannot be used for feeding to carnivores afterwards, because of the toxicity of the chemicals. Pets which have been euthanised are usually cremated or buried for that reason. So I fear that "gentle euthanasia" will not be possible. I assume they mean gassing or wringing the necks, or even worse, bleeding out without any painkillers. Appalling!

[Catherine]

Quote:I am also disturbed by the sentence "It offered assurances that the pets will be "gently euthanized" by trained staff." No mention of this being done by vets, merely "trained staff". Trained by whom, to what level of expertise?

More importantly, what is this "gentle euthanasia"? Vets use special chemicals, which render the animal unconscious and then stop the heart. But animals euthanised in this way cannot be used for feeding to carnivores afterwards, because of the toxicity of the chemicals. Pets which have been euthanised are usually cremated or buried for that reason. So I fear that "gentle euthanasia" will not be possible. I assume they mean gassing or wringing the necks, or even worse, bleeding out without any painkillers. Appalling!

I was going to post about this. When I thought it over I realized that they couldn't use "gentle" euthanasia. The drugs used for euthanasia would kill the animals eating them. They would have to be killed manually. Probably, they would break the animals necks by hitting them with something hard or by swinging the animal by the back legs and striking the back of the head against a metal pole or something hard. They could also smash the skull with a hammer. None of these methods are gentle. The pet would already be frightened and confused about where it is. Then it would be in a room where animals are being killed. There is nothing nice about this. It would be zoo keepers smashing necks or skulls and tossing still twitching bodies to hungry carnivores.

I think it is worse that the zoo is trying to pass this off as a gentle alternative for getting rid of an unwanted pet.

The zoo that fed its baboons to its carnivores must have found a way to kill them without euthanasia drugs.
How did they kill them that left the body safe to be fed to another animal?
I doubt the answer is cruelty free.

[Catherine]

People are not happy with the zoo asking for small pets to be donated as food.  

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/pets...2453&ei=11

We are used to zoos having special areas where small pets are there for children to pet and have fun with. We don't want those small animals to be used as food.
We certainly don't want to hear about our neighbours pets being used as food. Think how frightening it would be for a small animal. They were born to be pets. They have lives their whole lives as pets. Suddenly they are in a strange place where terrible things are happening to small animals. They would be terrified.
Rabbits and guinea pigs are such gentle animals. They would have such fear and then a horrible death. Nothing justifies doing that to a gentle little animal.
The zoo is sick. They really need to look at the person who came up with this idea and ask f they are fit to look after any animals.

[Catherine]

The zoo is just refusing to understand the betrayal implied by using a pet as food for a zoo animal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...se-as-food

There is something wrong about having a pet and then giving it to a zoo as food for carnivores.

[Catherine]

Someone admits to giving her daughter's pony to the zoo as food.

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/denmark-wom...oo-9060812


She had that pony for many years. She seems to have no feeling for the pony at all.
It is a little scary to think that people are that cold and uncaring.

[Catherine]

She defends giving the pony to the zoo to feed the lions. 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/pets...34f5&ei=62


She had no feeling for the pony at all.
She reminds me of someone cleaning out their closet and getting rid of a few things that they don't want anymore.
Getting rid of an old sweater is one thing, but getting rid of a pony you have had for years should have a little more emotional impact.