Two European zoos commit outrageous acts.

[Catherine]

Quote:I am also disturbed by the sentence "It offered assurances that the pets will be "gently euthanized" by trained staff." No mention of this being done by vets, merely "trained staff". Trained by whom, to what level of expertise?

More importantly, what is this "gentle euthanasia"? Vets use special chemicals, which render the animal unconscious and then stop the heart. But animals euthanised in this way cannot be used for feeding to carnivores afterwards, because of the toxicity of the chemicals. Pets which have been euthanised are usually cremated or buried for that reason. So I fear that "gentle euthanasia" will not be possible. I assume they mean gassing or wringing the necks, or even worse, bleeding out without any painkillers. Appalling!

I was going to post about this. When I thought it over I realized that they couldn't use "gentle" euthanasia. The drugs used for euthanasia would kill the animals eating them. They would have to be killed manually. Probably, they would break the animals necks by hitting them with something hard or by swinging the animal by the back legs and striking the back of the head against a metal pole or something hard. They could also smash the skull with a hammer. None of these methods are gentle. The pet would already be frightened and confused about where it is. Then it would be in a room where animals are being killed. There is nothing nice about this. It would be zoo keepers smashing necks or skulls and tossing still twitching bodies to hungry carnivores.

I think it is worse that the zoo is trying to pass this off as a gentle alternative for getting rid of an unwanted pet.

The zoo that fed its baboons to its carnivores must have found a way to kill them without euthanasia drugs.
How did they kill them that left the body safe to be fed to another animal?
I doubt the answer is cruelty free.