To be embarrassed he was feeding sausage rolls to the meerkats...

[DippyDooDahDay]

At the zoo, dad to dc was sneaking bits of sausage roll to the very appreciative meerkats. Other people looked on in horror. He disobeyed the signs not to feed the animals! One woman in particular looked at us like we should be shot. I did tell him to stop....very not zoo etiquette

Your dp was being silly, the signs are there for a reason. They are fed a special duet at certain times. There are certain foods some animals cannot have as it causes them damage.

To add (because my posts seem to get taken the wrong way) my post was a huge generalisation and absolutely not a dig/go at MrsPratchett.

Why didn't you tell a zookeeper what the dickhead was doing ?

People who feed animals when told not to are complete twats.

Along with all the other horse owners on here I caught someone feeding my laminitic pony fucking cake the once! Big handfuls of it over two fences with three signs along it asking for them not to be fed and a neighbour coming out to tell them to stop. So worth me getting up at 5am to get him off the grass for the day and exercising him everyday after work.

Someone used to do similar with apples at our old yard - my mare had a bout of colic over the new year ended up in surgery and with a 7k vet bill - four months of intensive box rest and then she dropped dead in the field and I had a phone call at work.

It doesn't matter if it's apples, carrots, mints or what - DO NOT feed the horses.

Or meerkats - what a horrid thing to do. He could have killed one of them (I have no idea what they can and can't digest).

As you may have realised this gets my back up somewhat and I do not find it lighthearted in the slightest.

THis manis a dick and arrogant and no respect why are you spending timecwith him 7 did gasp at ypur zoo etiquette coment tut animals have specific thought out weighed blah blah diets nothing to do with etiquette if I was there I would have challenge d him . I

Once saw eejits feeding monkeys something in a safari park tje monkey squeezed in thecwindow lots of squeeling and horn peeping it was hilarious I was cheering on the monkey

I have photod him, reported him to a keeper and had him removed from the zoo. What a tit (the photos for proof, should the meerkats die, which is not impossible)

It was a Walls sausage roll, so I wonder if it makes it a little bit better?

nothing could make it better. It was a fuckwitted thing to do

He was being a twat.

And I think that it is fantastic that you are able to go to the zoo with your children, something lots of children miss out on when their parents split up. They get the trips, just not with both parents.

I would 'anonymously' contact the zoo with his details and tell them what he did.
Tell them that if they wish to contact him about his disgusting behaviour please could they say that they traced him by his car reg/bank card details as he would react badly if he knew you had contacted them.

I consider what he did to be animal abuse and should be treated as such.

That is dreadful behaviour, a member of my family is a zoo keeper and she has to deal with the fall out of this sort of irresponsible behaviour regularly. It leads to very sick animals and on many occasions results in the animals dying.

I once told people off for feeding mints to monkeys at Dubai Zoo.