Dublin Zoo protest tomorrow (3 Viewers)

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http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91809

 

[robitusson]

What exactly is this hoping to achieve?

 

[penexpers]

Yeah I wonder that too. I know Dublin Zoo was a bad old place back in the old days but it seems to have improved a lot in recent times.

 

[nooleen]

Report commissioned by the ISPCA says many of the animals in Dublin Zoo are bored, stressed, withdrawn and in urgent need of stimulation.

just like dublin humans, then. where's the beef?

 

[egg_]

Report commissioned by the ISPCA says many of the animals in Dublin Zoo are bored, stressed, withdrawn and in urgent need of stimulation.

Also, this was in 1995. Fourteen years ago

 

[nooleen]

exactly.

 

[e+s=b]

Also, this was in 1995. Fourteen years ago

Yea, I don't think it's fair going back that far and I do believe Dublin Zoo has made lots of improvements over the years. I just thought there might be some people on here who are not into the idea of animals being kept in captivity for the purpose of entertaining humans and making profits.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

5 prairie dogs were killed - some from eating rat poison and burrowing into the cheetahs enclosure.

that's pretty funny (the burrowing bit) - Ooopsies!!!

 

[avernus]

BURN THE ZOO!

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Is the Zoo not important for helping the conservation of certain species of animals?

Nice article here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0327/1224243532740.html

 

[wild_cat]

Anyone remember the polar bears there about 12 years or so now I think. At the time I thought it was really cool that the polar bear would swim to a rock and back flop into the water repeating said movement for hours.....

Imagen how that childhood memory is tarred by relising that the poor thing had gone mad in my early teens.

But when I was in TY we went to a talk there and they showed us all about that kind of thing. They had chimp tea parties well into the seventies if I remember correctly. Was in the vid they showed us.

Theres photos of the zoo in the early sixties or even earlier lying around the house some where here. All concrete by the looks of things.

 

[nooleen]

people need to get over this conservation buzz; the more species go extinct the more room there is for wacky new lifeforms. besides which, extinction is natural.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

most animals are pricks.

 

[nooleen]

nlgbbbblth

 

[magicbastarder]

i'd imagine mortality rates in the zoo are a hell of a lot lower than in the wild.
do the protestors want all the animals immediately returned to their natural habitats?

 

[nooleen]

i've heard - and this is only a rumour now - but i've heard that animals sometimes have quite a rough time of it in the wild, and sometimes even die. apparently, real life can be a bit trying. but that's not important, what's important is that animals are kind of cute and should therefore be protected from the kind of realities they've been surviving in since long before we came along. except for putting them in zoos, that's bad. wait...i've forgotten what my argument was..hang on til i check my pamphlets

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i've heard red pandas burst into fuzziness if you snuggle them hard enough. then they die cos the mother won't take them back. awww!

 

[therealjohnny]

I remember seeing a sew-on patch in a certain "punk house" declaring that keeping pets was effectively a war on animals

I think the cartoon kitten on it even had an AK47

imagine

 

[nooleen]

I remember seeing a sew-on patch in a certain "punk house" declaring that keeping pets was effectively a war on animals

I think the cartoon kitten on it even had an AK47

imagine

ah now, wait now, don't be compromising my faith in the intelligence of punks...oh wait..i have none. ahaha. boom boom. and other indications of humourousness just performed.
that's especially good seeing as punk dog owners are the worst pet owners in the world.

 

[therealjohnny]

Crusties are the worst

and they smell bad