Posted on 07/11/2009 2:31:01 PM PDT by RobinMasters
A zoo system in Massachusetts is more or less resorting to hostage-taking in response to proposed budget cuts. The Boston Globe reports that after Gov. Deval Patrick decreased funding for Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo from $6.5 to $2.5 million in a line-item veto, the zoo officials wrote the governor saying that the steep budget cuts would render them unable to take care of the animals, and that many of them would have to be euthanized.
In other words, give us our money or we'll start executing defenseless animals, beginning with the cutest ones first (or at least that's where I would start, just to ratchet up the pressure).
This is a bold step. It's uncharted territory, because none of the other services that work with actual humans could make the same aggressive move, but with animals you can take the hard line. Will Gov. Patrick really let them haul out the pandas to be shot with a humane killer, as the public watches?
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They’re not going to shoot them. They’re going to put them under Romneycare, and then let nature - or bureaucracy - takes it’s course.
I love zoo’s but each major city having a zoo is a waste....
Have several cities work together to set up large reqional zoos with wildlife parks in a more rural area...far more entertaining and cost effective.....
Better for most of the animals as well...
Might make for one heck of an exotic BBQ. Do an open house thingy. I’d pay a couple-a bucks for a RINO burger or some such.
Best solution - Feed the grazing and other vegeterian animals to the meat eaters.
I really do hate the ASPCA commercials with the animals in shelters. They work. I’m convinced. Besides, people are abandonning their pets, so why not zoo animals, too.
No loss, they are useless eaters!
Let them all loose. Yummy giraffe burgers
"Don't move or the bunny gets it!"
I just bought a short loin and a leg of lamb today. I should have read this sooner.
I should have bid on a giraffe leg (but I’d have to buy another two freezers, though).
Put them on welfare so they can sit around and watch TV all day.
There are some safari parks in Kenya that would love to have them come back.
Fire the lot of them and get someone in there that can do their job with the assets available.
Now to other issues that need resolving.
S&W? ; )
Actually, you can get roast giraffe at several 1st class restaurants in Kenya, along with a number of other exotic game meats.
Season tickets to the zoo when you have preschoolers is a great buy. It’s not as good if it’s a long drive for the family.
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