Pets Mom donates daughter’s pony to zoo — so that it can be devoured by lions: ‘Nothing goes to waste

NY Post ^ | Aug. 18, 2025 | y Brooke Steinberg

[BenLurkin]

A Danish woman donated her daughter’s pet pony to Zoo in Denmark — so it could be eaten by lions.

Pernille Sohl reportedly donated her teenage daughter Angelina’s German riding pony, Chicago 57, to the Aalborg Zoo in the country’s northern region.

Zookeepers have said they’re hoping to mimic the natural food chain of predators by feeding them smaller donated pets.

“It might sound very dramatic and bizarre that you would feed your pet to animals in the zoo,” Sohl, 44, told the Times UK. “But they are going to be put down anyway and it is not like they are alive when they are given to the predators.”

Aalborg Zoo has asked for donations of “a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons” — including guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens — to be “gently euthanized” before being used as a meal, the facility said in a Facebook post.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: circleoflife

[Chickensoup]

Missed that one... some times I’m lucky.

[Chickensoup]

What on earth does that have to do with this thread?

[Chickensoup]

That was sick!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They might feed them the carcass intact which is closer to how the animal would eat in the wild then the Purina Lion Chow they normally get.

Processed food is broken down more completely by the body which means you can eat the same food in the same amount and get more calories out of the processed than you do the unprocessed.

I know they ran an experiment where they fed two bunches of animals the same diet except one was ground up and one was intact and the animals on the ground up diet gained weight.

[gundog]

We had a place like that, down south. We’d hang at a farm next door. The lion’s roar was awesome. I think it might have been the one that I dealt with as a cub. It bit the bottom of my Levis, and flopped to the ground. Then it rolled over, cutting off circulation to my foot. Little 10 -12 pound lion was incredibly strong. I was in pain before I got him off me.

Owner of the place was recently busted for animal neglect. They raided his home and found lots of drugs and cash. Shoulda kept the critters fed. ODOT used to bring in road-killed deer for the lion.

[SaveFerris]

🤷🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

[SaveFerris]

Jerry did it again!

[SaveFerris]

😄🤣🤣

[SaveFerris]

😃😄🤣🤣

[gundog]

Yeah...8 is the longest in recent memory. 12 is pretty impressive.

[Clay Moore]

I think your Enter key is set on slam-fire.

[drwoof]

Sick. Evil.

[drSteve78]

It’s not any different than any other meat animal that is humanely slaughtered.

[drSteve78]

What do you feed your pets?

Why humanely raised and canned tofu, of course, by the way have you any grey poupon mustard?

[drSteve78]

That’s a record I think

Someone has really fat thumbs, 👍, or is eating greasy chicken wings 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Whatever Works]

Yes, it was. She scarred all of us. She has always been my anti model of motherhood.

[Menes]

Gentlemen,

while giving one’s pet away for feeding carnivores at a zoo might be questionable, please do take into account that the pony had indeed been put to sleep before being given to the carnivores in the zoo.

[Menes]

😂😂😂

[Menes]

I am very sorry that you had to live through such a difficult childhood 😞

My mother was the most loving and caring human being I have ever known. Alas, she left us too soon.

May God hold her in His loving arms, and our Dad, too😇😇🙏🏻✝️

[Mr. Blond]

These are domesticated animals with no predator awareness...I hope they’re at least sedated.