Zoo Awarness Weekend

I think if they did graffit the sign the the zoo could have them removed as it's criminal damage, so it's not like they where just having them removed for the sake of it.
I went to dartmoor zoo years back, and they were there clogging up the car park entrance. My auntie was driving and got approached, she opened her window and said she wasn't interested. They carried on towards her, so she proceeded towards them in her (pretty big) car. A bit immature but they were pestering us!
And they could not say one nice thing about the old Dartmoor zoo (fair enough I guess), yet the moment it got closed down they were all "they should care more about their animals, who do they think they are, closing down and probably killing them all?" Then, as soon as Ben Mee came along then they did nothing but complain about him, typical :rolleyes:
 
Although I am in agreement with everyone,I do think it is important in our society to allow peaceful demonstration, even though we may not agree with the cause of the demonstration. We know the reality inside the zoo and thank goodness there is much improvement as zoos were indeed prisons. Still a trek yet to go but things are undoubtedly so much better in many zoos. Perhaps indeed aggravating that CAPS may be without a sense of what the effect of the reality of closing down the zoos for the animals involved would be, but it is good we live in a country that allows protest and is not a dictatorship.
 
I see what you mean, but these demonstraters are not peaceful, that's why it's so annoying. They merely stand at the gate intimidating people who don't know much about animals with their "elephants would definitely walk 30 miles a day" and "no enclosure will be anything like an animal's home range", when the majority of them have hamsters in a cage in their living room. I'm pretty sure a hamster's territory in the willd would be more than half a square metre of plastic tubes...
 
Yes, those plastic tubes...very odd!! Yes I don't like intimidation and a sense of 'them and us'. Unfortunately in any of my work in animal welfare it is so often a 'them and us' scenario between people who frequent and work in zoos and those who feel they have the upper moral hand and who respect animals but in cerebral and idealistic fashion and who want to close zoos, again never mind the consequence for the animals;which in itself is odd! Shame there cannot be a common forum for discussion, but of course not everyone wants to discuss, some need just to be right, but it is always important I feel to listen to each other, even if others don't abide by that principle. My neighbours hate gulls and want to kill them here on the Sussex coast, I must say I am finding it hard to listen to them to be honest!! That is changing the subject though, apologies!
 
I should clarify listening to the gulls is fine, it is listening to the neighbours complaining about them I find difficult, I love the sound of the gulls!!
 
ashley-h said:
I see what you mean, but these demonstraters are not peaceful, that's why it's so annoying. They merely stand at the gate intimidating people who don't know much about animals with their "elephants would definitely walk 30 miles a day" and "no enclosure will be anything like an animal's home range",
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I agree the thing is they are not peaceful people and they closing down zoos because THEY went to not for the animals own good. :mad: They do intimidate people all the time which is what is outragous about what they are doing! :mad:
Yes they should all be in the wild but the fact of the matter is they cant be they are being persecuted by man kind for hundreds and hundreds of years which has driven so many speicies to extinction so by putting them in zoos we are saving them and as much as we try we cannot give them the exact 100% conditions they would have in the wild because its impossible! We make there lives better and i if i thought zoos where not doing this and being cruel to the animals i wouldnt visit them! but i do becuase i believe what they are doing is right.
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And what's annoying is most of them keep pets (captive animals), most of them eat meat (funding captive breeding), and the majority of them couldn't even tell you what a Pangolin is :rolleyes:
 
Hamsters in the Wild

ashley-h said:
I'm pretty sure a hamster's territory in the willd would be more than half a square metre of plastic tubes...
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Hamsters(radio collared) have been tracked in the wild and found to cover SEVEN miles in the course of a night's foraging. So you can imagine how stressful they probably find close confinment in captivity. During the day they sleep but at night are frenetically active. The millions of Hamster owners are largely unaware of the shortcomings of housing them in cages and tanks, and so no doubt is the RSPCA, who issue brochures on 'how to care for your Pet Hamster' which don't include the advice- allow your Hamster to run seven miles each night....;).
 
ashley-h said:
And what's annoying is most of them keep pets (captive animals), most of them eat meat (funding captive breeding), and the majority of them couldn't even tell you what a Pangolin is :rolleyes:
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They really do not get it do they we should all ask them what they are if we go during the weekend ;) see what different answers we get!
 
I'm not going to Marwell on Sunday anymore. As its Easter Sundays theres no bus service to get me there :(

But luckily my friend has just told me she's going with her family and I've given her a heads up about the possibility of protestors there. I'll let you know what she says. :)
 
Unlucky HuxleyPig but good news im going to whipsnade now due to family reasons so ill see if any protesters are there. I'll tell you any news of protesters and animal news
Ill take pics of most enclosures anyway.:)
 
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