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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/danish-zoo-asks-pet-owners-to-donate-rabbits-and-horses-to-feed-its-predators
NiftyGoblin
I feel like they'd do better to partner with farms to host and care for meat animals for tax breaks.
TalleyZorah
I don't hate the idea. Could use some more tact, like having a home service so your beloved pet is not dying in an unfamiliar place with predator smells around, but it's ecologicaly sound.
ThisIsMyUsernameThereAreManyLikeIt
What a shitty fucking article. There is absolutely nothing wrong or weird about what the zoo is asking. Newsflash: Predators eat meat, and need meat to survive. Their suggestion would mean less dead animals. And participation is fully optional.
Zahnradfee
Exactly.
Either give them an animal that was already dying, or kill another animal that still would have lived.
These are the two options. I think it's obvious which is the better one.
REOJackwagon
#school field trip to the zoo
*kid recognizes their pet
ognar
Pretty sure the Yorkshire Mega Rat in the second pic is the answer to the story in the first pic
goodguyC
My sister has two aging horses....she was already looking into donated to our local university for veterinary science. Now I'm curious....would our local zoo be a better cause?
Zahnradfee
Both sound reasonable. Maybe one goes to one cause and one to the other.
nikinnorge
I love Danish zoos. They don't cater to the survival of the cutest crowd at all
baliverne
Maybe zoos aren't such a good idea to begin with.
ZaphodBbx
Are they accepting legislators?
4vie
Let's thin out the lobbyists a little... there's a distressing overabundance of those.
YippeeKayakOB
It's a good thing. Respecting animals is about understanding their nature.
DidItForScience
Anybody else notice the side story link about the mega-rat and a global rat crisis of 2025?!
Seethreepeeoh
[Crying] "it's what they might have wanted"
cinquecento
Could solve our Nazi infestation
faphappyscreencappy
*peers at last race lost in Umamusume* Welp, time for a trip to Denmark.
kingfluffy1
BoblovesMac31415101
That cat would kill and eat anything it could overpower.
Sometimes even do it for fun.
KommanderKayriel
Feed them Nazis or send them back home.
NotADutchman
This kills the pets.
OliverOtter
Headline aside, they're only taking pets who were at the end of their lives anyway, and offering a free humane death with a natural disposal. They weren't killing healthy pets as food, just offering that those dying anyway would be eaten by beloved zoo animals, rather than nameless worms and microorganisms.
prettydumb
hmmm im not touching this one
AnchorHandler
Predators eat meat!
Next: Water is wet!
Osiricus
How about overweight wannabe dictator rapist pedophiles? We got a bunch of them in the US.
frozenchicken
The article really goes out of its' way to make this sound as horrible as possible at first glance.
reichstein
And also second and third glance.
reichstein
Feed them the billionaires first.
Once we run out of them we can consider other options.
MissDeeMeanor
Zoos are inherently barbaric.
pleaseacknowledgethecat
Don’t give Florida this idea.
aNewIngloriousHandle
fact of life lesson
JarJarDrinks
The zoo I worked at in Texas went through hundreds of pounds of horse meat a day to feed our carnivores. Big cats have big appetites....
FrozenSTi
how about annoying little brothers?
goodguyC
https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/oh_you_zoolander.gif
lazybuthappy
And annoying restaurant children
alcamar
"Sorry, the tiger ate your dog because you kept trying to take the TV from me" -older sibling probably
metalrulercid
How about hunting safari goers? Just a twist in the fun, no?
tonehoundsmoser9
We have an overabundance of bootlicking fascists here to feed your animals, if it wouldn't give them tummyaches.
Somethingswonderous
They are full of bile, would not be safe to eat.
alcamar
I dunno, they give me lots of tummy aches, probably not good for the zoo animals.
ParaspriteHugger
Please remember that diclofenac is highly toxic to vultures - so let's start rumors that Voltaren is communist nonsense.
Zammurkele
Danish zoos are different.
eddbrowne
Would be more useful if they made a careful video with commentary & posted online; password protected. I volunteer to be the human version.
AnchorHandler
I saw that live.
It was awesome and really interesting. They made a lot of effort to make it an educational experience for everyone there.
feltenix
That is so cool.
trsd9
They seem to have become easy prey for headlines.
thebonesofmyancestors
headlions?
Kommissar00Schneider
I appreciate the idea, but dang would I have a hard time giving the body of my beloved pet to be eaten by a zoo animal
billymaditsdone
I think they take them alive. So if you have an annoying neighbor with a pet, now is the time to get rid...I mean "donate" them.
witheredspoon
Only AFTER he dies. No way in hell I'd subject him to that horror
GolbatChan
They aren't feeding live rabbits to the predators.
NiftyGoblin
They are wanting them alive, they need to know its not old or sickly before feeding it to their animals...which makes it harder. They really need to just get a program set up with people with farmland to host meat animals for taxbreaks.
Snuggelapolous
I don't think that that's the idea. It's more like an initiative to remove dead animals from less sustainable practices like burying or cremation which is often very expensive and doesn't help the environment. No one is asking your for forfit your pets to a zoo and I feel the headline is misleading.
If you have ever owned a horse that died of old age I can ensure this is a MUCH better option than burial. I think it's a great idea.
Kommissar00Schneider
Yeah, I know. My point was it would still be hard for me: Having the picture in my head of my pet being eaten by the zoo animal
NinjaCongo
As opposed to rotting in the ground.
ZoidbergIsGreat
Yeah, noooooope. I couldn't do it. My cats that have passed are cremated and I still hold them when I'm missing them.
jjw9
This is actually even more morbid than that — the zoo is among for persons to donate “healthy” pets to be “gently euthanized” then set out for the predator animals to month on whole.
I’m not going to end the life of my healthy pet to feed a zoo animal.
My pets are part of my human family.
jjw9
* asking for (not ‘among for’)
goodguyC
Yeah, I would really prefer the zoo animals be able to play with their food....you know, express their predator instincts!! "T-Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt!" -Dr. Grant
Cebrail
Thats not what they are asking.
If you have a pet that needs to be euthanized for some reason. (So it already has to be put down), then instead of doing so and having the veterinarian dispose of it's remains, you can have the zoo do the euthanasia and use the remains for a good purpose.
They aint asking you to drop off your cat or dog
Kommissar00Schneider
I know. I read the article. I would still have a hard time with this, just because of the movie that would play in my head of my pet's body being eaten
Cebrail
I get that. Though as someone who's had chickens for many many years, I'd have an easy enough time with them. A Guinea-pig or a Horse.......likely harder.
But I'd be able to do it I think, if it had to be put down anyway.
Kommissar00Schneider
Yeah, I would definitely toy with the idea, too, since it would benefit the zoo animal
SarcasticComment
also, my brother in law is a pig farmer. it's rare, but there have been pigs born so sick "tumors in the meat and what not", that they were euthanized but not fit for human consumption. If the zoo was accepting that pig, he'd have taken it in instead of having to dispose.
SarcasticComment
there are quite a few farmers who may find it an easier alternative. "I'll drop off 10 live no longer egg laying chickens, and you do the rest".
Cebrail
My parents have chickens. Not large-scale, 10 or so in the backyard. They'll eventually grow so old they need to be euthanized, while not sick or dangerous. If not for the distance, we'd happily donate them to the Zoo. And thats despite them having names and all after 5-8 years with the folks.