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Wtf have u just read?

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Campingisnexttogodliness · 04/08/2025 13:44

Denmark zoo advertising for unwanted pets to be donated.. They will be euthanised and fed to the animals...
If it was April 1st I would assume some sick Fool.

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StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 04/08/2025 15:30

Danes aren't sentimental about animals. DDs old Brownie pack slaughter 2 ducks a year for Saint Mortens evening and then eat them with red cabbage and caramelised potatoes. My girl guides have done the same with chickens on survival weekends. It's a thing.

TempestTost · 04/08/2025 15:28

The zoo near me, in Canada, accepts donations of horses and other large pet animals that have died/put down, in a way that is not a risk for the zoo animals. So not taking certain medications o having diseases that could be passed on.

It can actually be quite difficult and expensive to dispose of animals like this that have to be put down. There is a trade here in sending work out horses to Quebec for the meat trade for humans, for much the same reason. It's simply very expensive to keep an animal that size. During covid there were quite a few school horses put down because their owners could no longer afford to feed them.

It's a bit funny. People object to feeding animals we raise to feed to tigers in the zoo, at the same time they will donate money to save wild tigers in India. Guess what people, the tigers in India are not vegetarians either.

KrisAkabusi · 04/08/2025 15:25

Artesia · 04/08/2025 15:22

Isn't the whole point that they don't kill the mouse first, they just give it to the snake?

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No, they are euthanized first. But they have to put whole animals in front of the snake. It won't go for mince or bits of rabbit, it doesn't recognise them as food. Which is why they are looking for donations from people that are fed up of Fluffy.

Cherrysoup · 04/08/2025 15:24

Some horse owners will ask the hunt to shoot/dispose of their horse ie feed it to the hounds. It’s one way to deal with a normally very large carcass which would otherwise be cremated.

Round here, you can also donate the carcass (if not full of drugs, obviously) to the big cat sanctuary. Roadkill deer are sometimes picked up by Highways and taken there too.

My local feed stores sell trays of baby chicks, males are of little use and are often ground up rather than allowed to live.

KrisAkabusi · 04/08/2025 15:23

DeanStockwelll · 04/08/2025 15:16

I can understand why people feel uneasy about it.

I wonder how the pets are put down , I wouldn't of thought it safe ( or financially viable) to inject them with a very heavy sedative , enough to kill them as we would do with our pets at the vets , and then feed them to another animal .
Granted feeding a mouse to a lion , no issues but feeding a mouse to a snake , wouldn't that risk harming the snake ?

But it's something they are doing anyway. This is just an alternative to buying them from a supplier or breeding them themselves. They obviously know how to euthanize them so they aren't a risk to the predator animal.
The only reason people feel uneasy is that its not something they have thought about themselves, rather than realise it's happening on a massive scale worldwide. Its just this time the zoo is being open about it and is actually trying to reduce the number of animals killed unnecessarily.

Lurkingandlearning · 04/08/2025 15:22

corlan · 04/08/2025 13:49

What's the difference between eating one animal or another? Is there a hierarchy? Why would be ok to use a farmed rabbit as food but not one that had been a pet?
All meat is murder.

It’s not the zoo staff that are going to eat the euthanised animals, it’s the zoo animals. Unless you are on a mission to make all animals vegan??

Artesia · 04/08/2025 15:22

DeanStockwelll · 04/08/2025 15:16

I can understand why people feel uneasy about it.

I wonder how the pets are put down , I wouldn't of thought it safe ( or financially viable) to inject them with a very heavy sedative , enough to kill them as we would do with our pets at the vets , and then feed them to another animal .
Granted feeding a mouse to a lion , no issues but feeding a mouse to a snake , wouldn't that risk harming the snake ?

Isn't the whole point that they don't kill the mouse first, they just give it to the snake?

ColinOfficeTrolley · 04/08/2025 15:20

NegroniMacaroni · 04/08/2025 14:08

Ahh this is so Danish and practical, love it.
A while back a Danish friend of mine was over for lunch, we went into the garden and found a half-dead pigeon, probably mauled by the neighbours cat. Danish friend asks if I have a frying pan, and proceeds to promptly smash the poor pigeon, swiftly ending its misery. I wish I were that practical.

I thought you were going to say that Danish friend cooked it 🤣

CharSiu · 04/08/2025 15:20

Sign me up the bloody cat has just stolen DH sausage sandwich off the counter top .

NegroniMacaroni · 04/08/2025 15:17

ScrambledEggs12 · 04/08/2025 14:27

I thought you were going to say your friend wanted the frying pan to cook it!

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Haha she probably would have if it weren’t for my pathetic wimpering. I had to hide indoors while she did the deed.

DeanStockwelll · 04/08/2025 15:16

I can understand why people feel uneasy about it.

I wonder how the pets are put down , I wouldn't of thought it safe ( or financially viable) to inject them with a very heavy sedative , enough to kill them as we would do with our pets at the vets , and then feed them to another animal .
Granted feeding a mouse to a lion , no issues but feeding a mouse to a snake , wouldn't that risk harming the snake ?

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/08/2025 14:50

KrisAkabusi · 04/08/2025 14:42

And again, what's wrong with this? Its not like the kids were on their own and wandered across it. It was an advertised dissection display.

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Don’t go ruining outrage with fact!

corlan · 04/08/2025 14:50

vodkaredbullgirl · 04/08/2025 13:56

Wondered when someone would say meat is murder.

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Call me Morrisey.

TyroleanKnockabout · 04/08/2025 14:49

It’s things like this that make me feel extremely British (and unpractical).

sueelleker · 04/08/2025 14:49

When Gerald Durrell opened his zoo on Jersey, he was given the carcases of male Jersey calves to feed his carnivores; as they were unwanted by the breeders (who only wanted the females for milk.

Bingbangboo · 04/08/2025 14:48

Didn't Berlin Zoo do something like that during covid - listing animals that could provide a food source for their bigger animals if necessary, as income from visitors had stopped?

Allotmentannie · 04/08/2025 14:44

Oh that's an interesting idea. Excellent.

KrisAkabusi · 04/08/2025 14:42

Campingisnexttogodliness · 04/08/2025 14:24

Not the same zoo - but also Denmark - that butchered a healthy 2 yo giraffe in front of visitors including small dc..

And again, what's wrong with this? Its not like the kids were on their own and wandered across it. It was an advertised dissection display.

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/08/2025 14:33

corlan · 04/08/2025 13:49

What's the difference between eating one animal or another? Is there a hierarchy? Why would be ok to use a farmed rabbit as food but not one that had been a pet?
All meat is murder.

Animals eating other animals is murder? No it isn’t, it’s nature. Don’t imagine lions or tigers would fare very well on a vegetarian diet.

itsgettingweird · 04/08/2025 14:33

It’s unlikely the infamous MN chicken has lived a fabulous life 😂

yes I agree with posters that they arent asking for Carrots the pet rabbit or Bella your pet cat.

They want animals they can feed to their reptiles in the same way we go and buy a burger!

vodkaredbullgirl · 04/08/2025 14:31

ScrambledEggs12 · 04/08/2025 14:27

I thought you were going to say your friend wanted the frying pan to cook it!

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Same here

Theunamedcat · 04/08/2025 14:29

ScrambledEggs12 · 04/08/2025 14:27

I thought you were going to say your friend wanted the frying pan to cook it!

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Your not alone there!

ScrambledEggs12 · 04/08/2025 14:27

NegroniMacaroni · 04/08/2025 14:08

Ahh this is so Danish and practical, love it.
A while back a Danish friend of mine was over for lunch, we went into the garden and found a half-dead pigeon, probably mauled by the neighbours cat. Danish friend asks if I have a frying pan, and proceeds to promptly smash the poor pigeon, swiftly ending its misery. I wish I were that practical.

I thought you were going to say your friend wanted the frying pan to cook it!

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Campingisnexttogodliness · 04/08/2025 14:24

Not the same zoo - but also Denmark - that butchered a healthy 2 yo giraffe in front of visitors including small dc..

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BlueandPinkSwan · 04/08/2025 14:16

What about cats and dogs being used at the zoo? Plenty of them get dumped on charities.
I'm totally against this whole idea I guess if they are pts that's something but even then, it doesn't sit right with me.
Not sure what the answer is though.