Posted on 08/18/2025 4:14:00 PM PDT by 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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Well at least you bothered to read the article. Can’t say the same for most.
I wouldn’t be lion if I said something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Oh my!I don’t know how that happened. Sorry!
So sorry.
No I really don’t know what happened. I was using my phone and stylus.
Sad. So sorry.
With humanely destroyed animals, I hope.
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