[DouglasKC]

It’s been done in the past. Send in the keepers, work the animal into their pen. They DO have the ability to control the animals without tranqs. I want them to TRY some other method. Have the gun around if things look to be not working but TRY to handle it without the gun.

Okay. If your 3 year old in there getting manhandled by a gorilla let them "try" different things to get your 3 year out safe and sound. With my 3 year old I'll tell them to shoot the gorilla every single time.

[discostu]

All your hyperbole doesn’t change the facts. And the fact is other zoos have managed to save both. This zoo screwed up, they didn’t even try any other route, they had the time, but they didn’t do it. They killed the animal because of their own stupidity.

[muggs]

Give up, we will never get through to them. If it was their kid/GK they would feel completely different.

I guess I’m a bad grandmother because my grandson fell down at the playground last week and skinned his elbow? If I had been watching him better maybe it wouldn’t have happened. SMH