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Will they accept corrupt politians or CEOs from other nations?
What about unwanted siblings or older parents?
Too modest to ask
"They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the pets of the people that live there"
Would they accept donatinons of politicians?
Or billionaires
SMALL PETS?
YES. OR HORSES.
man of culture I see
They mention animals that are frequently raised as livestock. Chickens, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs are all mentioned. Horse is the only unusual one to me. I'd find it much more upsetting if they were accepting cats and dogs.
-Coincidentally I watched two YT videos yesterday. One was about some homesteaders that were dispatching chickens they raised for meat to share with their village. The other was about some small-time farmers that raise guinea-pigs (among other things) that were used for lawn-mowing. The farmers just anounced in that video that the guinea pigs will also be used as a food source.
Horse is not unusual as meat in the Netherlands.
This tracks. I got to spend some time on a Dutch boat during some training in Norway (I'm from the US) and each meal came with an assortment of meat, and there was one that was like a 10" tube of meat that we called horse cock, because the Dutch sailors mentioned some of the meat was horse, and so it was obviously the 10" tube.
few parts of japan
France as well
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It is worth noting that the article says they are euthanizing the animals before feeding. So it's not like they take a terrified pet and let the tiger rip it apart alive.
Still, not a fan of this...
The tiger got to eat and they need a meat based diet.
Option A: Feed them animals that have to bee euthanized and die either way.
Option B: Bury the animal that had to be euthanized and on top of it kill another animal so the tiger can eat.
Option A means less animals killed. Now of course we can talk about whether zoos should exist in the first place, for which there are good arguments that they should not.
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand
One of my favorite lines of all time.
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The zoo said it accepts donated rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., but no more than four at a time. It also accepts horses for feeding its animals, which it says on its website are euthanized by a zookeeper and a veterinarian.
Gotta eat. Hell, humans eat half those animals too.
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I'll go ahead and add "Eaten by apex predator" to the list of insane hamster deaths.
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