After the zoo personnel released all those stupidly incendiary statements about the family to the press, and the family receiving threats from other anthropomorphizing Disneybots (who think animals have gloved hands with four fingers and sing on Broadway)--I'd have gone after the zoo. They didn't, to my knowledge, but I would have.
A lot of animals have had to die --for me and mine-- just this past few weeks. Chickens, a cow, a pig one duck, and one turkey for starters. Down's in my pillows and sheepskin's on the floor. I've disposed of dangerous vermin on my property. I've poisoned a lot of rodents--maybe hundreds, thousands over the years!! Years ago a rabid animal also had to die for my sake--but I had to have the shots, anyway.
While I'm not a hunter, I'm grateful for the local hunters keeping the numbers of deer under control so I don't have one crashing through my windshield. So they're dying for my sake, too. And I even think deer are pretty!
And if I had a gun in my hand and a loose tiger drooling blood over a human in front of me--I wouldn't have cared about tranquilizers. I'd have shot the tiger, and more than once.
I'm disturbed so many think they would act otherwise.
“And if I had a gun in my hand and a loose tiger drooling blood over a human in front of me—I wouldn’t have cared about tranquilizers. I’d have shot the tiger, and more than once.
I’m disturbed so many think they would act otherwise.”
Amen to that ! No doubt the cops saw and acted on the immediate situation — no hesitation or PC BS.
I’m not going to rehash that thread, I was there, and “beating her” was not an alternative to her getting whatever treatment she needed.
If a child got in uninvited with your horse and was hurt, I’m sure you wouldn’t kill the horse for no reason just because “Sunshines” parents asked you to. It was the nonsense nature of killing every animal in the display that people were objecting to. None of the animals were remotely likely to be rabid in the first place.
For the record, I agree, and so to most on this thread, that the cops did what they had to do, so you're tilting at windmills even bringing up the Meerkat incident (I think they were meerkats). They're completely different. Don't misinterpret grief that a loose tiger ~had~ to be killed with an argument that unnecessarily killing a whole population of meerkats as a precautionary measure to save the girl from having to get shots.