Zoo May Close, Euthanize Animals

upsetting.
i hope to hear the outcome of what happens.

not a zoo fan to begin with, I try and look at it as educational... still, there are other ways/resources.

It is interesting to me to watch the responses to this news. Even with the sarcasm displayed, it is a bit surprising to see how many people are "cold" and self-serving. These animals cannot be sent back to the wild. First, there are laws prohibiting the re-introduction of animals due to the concern of new diseases being introduced to the wild herds. Secondly, if they could be released back to the wild, they probably would not survive. Have we become so selfish and materialistic that we have no empathy for other species except ourselves?

I hope some PETA freaks go in and bail the animals out. They could turn the whole town into a zoo.

This is terrible! Our economic shit hole we're in should not effect animals in captivity. Send them to different zoos or to wildlife sanctuaries. It always horrifies me how shit like this happens to animals.

Makes sense to me. Lord knows that there is no evidence at all that animals have even marginal chances in the wild given the natural underlying instincts that they are genetically predisposed to have.

There has never been a case of an animal ever living in captivity making it out in the wild. At all. There is a much higher success rate with just euthanizing them. Lord knows it sure results in less waste.

I like this policy, I'm all for using it across the board. Anytime any living thing has a small chance of succeeding we should just off the little bastard to make sure there is no iffy odds to think of.

Think of it this way. Logically an animal that is fed by keepers its whole life has not conception on how to hunt and kill its own food. To put a zoo kept animal back into the wild is suicide. Might as well shoot it first. There are organizations that take "wild" animals, all over the U.S., which is a good thing and maybe it will be good for these animals too.

Yes send these animals back to their habitat and out law Zoos henceforth. Why bring animal here when the state and local politicians caint manage a budget. Thats why California is broken. There is too much government welfare and waste or to put it another way get rid of the Pork in government and start paying off the debt and stop spending until there is enough to support the peoples projects. Get out of the art of spending and learn something about economics. Heelp get rid also of the Federal Reserve Bank and return to a national banking system.

This is not the only place in this situation? I think. It makes the some privately owned animals-let loose.

Throw a monkey on the bar-b and put a penguin on it too. maybe some zebra ribs. YUM !

OMG this is awful! There has to be something else they can do!