I don't know. To me, it's much more cruel to imprison a wild predator, take it thousands of miles away from where it belongs where it can't even get enough real sunlight and has to be baked under lamps in order to even survive and feed it only dead things than to take an animal that, given the reproductive rate, was probably meant to be food anyway and feed it to said predator.
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Zoo director Chris Jackson said staff and visitors were "sickened" by the "senseless barbarity" of the rabbit's death.
If the "senseless barbarity" of the predator/prey relationship is so "sickening" to you, maybe you should be accountants and not zoo staff. As for the visitors, I wonder if it ever occured to them how many human children were being beaten by their parents during the time they were prancing around crying about this. One really is senseless barbarity. The other is just the way things are.
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If you spend your life working with and looking after animals, this is something you cannot conceive.
Rabbit plus alligator equals lunch. The closest I get to working with animals is changing a litterbox and even *I* got that one down.
Yeah, I know they're probably referring to the act of taking the rabbit and giving him to the alligator in the first place, then acting like it's funny or something, but jeez, it's not like he picked up someone's baby and threw it in there. It's a freaking bunny.
And yeah, maybe some of the littler kids who were there having fun petting the bunnies were a little traumatized by the unscheduled episode of Wild Kingdom there, but having all the adults around them flip out about it too probably didn't help. In fact, people who grow up with the notion that prey shouldn't be eaten end up being complete wussies. I dated a guy who would get p*ssed watching the Discovery Channel because sometimes, they'd show predators doing what predators do. I ended up breaking up with him when I realized that he was basically a woman with a ***** (that and after three years of having this dude pretend to be Barney Bada$$ thinking he was beating me up, I got tired of him windmilling me like a ***** and busted his head into a closet door [I swear to god it's the truth. I have pictures]. After that he didn't want to go out with me anymore).
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North Wales Police said no-one had been charged
With what? Perpetuating the natural order? Fulfilling the destiny of a prey animal? Watch, if they catch this kid, they'll charge him with a
property crime and then the "Bunnies are People, Too" crowd will be able to sleep the righteous sleep of those in blissful denial of their own hypocrisy. The only person in all this who treated the rabbit the way the Creator intended was the dude who gave him to the alligator.
But I definitely feel happy for the alligator here. For the first time in more than twenty years, he got some real food.
BTW: Yes, for the record, I do agree that both the rabbit and the alligator, in terms of the law, are the property of the zoo and non-zoo personnel had no business determining what should happen to either.