Did anyone else hear about the giraffe in Copenhagen?

yes i did hear about it ... and i think it was wrong to kill that giraffe as there were other places it could have gone to live out it's life ... i was even more sickened that parents brought little kids to watch the giraffe cut apart ...

I didn't hear about it until I read the posts here. Most people don'y know that zoos frequently have too many animals. Since all zoos seem to get too many of the same kinds of animals, the chances of another zoo taking the excess are slim. Too many of these are sold to places where people pay to shoot zoo animals which have been "released" (sometimes into a large cage) to be killed by hunters who want to shoot something a little different (ugh). Others could be sold into research facilities, a kind of hell on earth for animals.

Maybe what we really need is a kind of birth control for animals that can easily be discontinued or reversed, should the animal be needed for breeding. Frozen sperm could be stored, too, and kept until needed. Then there wouldn't be such horrible fates for zoo animals.

Yes. Off topic. Reported

I just looked it up. That was disgusting and something needs to be done about these death mongers. I'm sure another zoo could have taken the little guy. Maybe the could have traded him for another animal. This is totally inexcusable. Such gentle, beautiful animals deserve better than this, much better.

Yup.

I applaud the zoo for not giving into social pressure contrary to their conservation and animal care policies and also for allowing the public to see the realities of death and what it means that some animals eat meat.

I am sorry that a giraffe was killed, but I understand the decision and don't see how the zoo could have acted otherwise. The animal died humanely and it's death contributed to education, research, and feeding the zoo's other animals.

Yes.

The one killed at the zoo? Yes.

No. And what does this have to do with dogs?