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Helsinki's Big Cats Dine on Feral Park Bunnies


Animals  (tags: animals, lions, zoos, feral bunnies, food, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 65 days ago - yle.fi
Lions and other big cats at Helsinki's Korkeasaari Zoo got their first taste of home-grown feral bunnies on Wednesday.
Comments

Gorilly Girl (371)
Thursday October 22, 2009, 7:14 pm
Hmmmmmmmmmm not quite sure what to think about this one...I mean they are so worried about thier precious gardens..but the lions and such need diffrent meats...oh goodness what a dilemma...

Big gorilly Hugs
 

Roseann D. (74)
Thursday October 22, 2009, 8:41 pm
I hope they get more than bunny. Rabbit is lowest in taurine of all meats....and taurine (chix heart, beef heart, pork heart, lamb heart,) as part of al well-balanced diet is ESSENTIAL to my housecats health (taurine deficiences mean they can go blind and eventually die) and heart probs....the best thing you can give...raw heart - no kidding.. one of my maine coonies (prone to heart probs)...tons of heart and no huff-puff when she plays and get overly excited or wears herself outl.
 

Red N. (214)
Friday October 23, 2009, 12:15 am
Have they never heard of spay and neuter? Wild animals belong in the wild not in a concrete cell for human entertainment...This demonstrates why zoo's shouldnt exsist and people should not breed rabbits for pets.....
 

chris b. (1418)
Friday October 23, 2009, 2:01 am
Oh Scandinvia what has happened to your civilisation Norway and Denmark supporting whale murder, Sweden burning bunnies to keep warm? Now Finland feeding bunnies to lions! Don't they know rabbits are vegetarian and their use as afood source is at best flawed in that it does not provide a correct cat nutrition balance without the inherently abusive disregard of rabbit life and culture or tradition!!!! Finland you should Finish this practise forthwith! The Easter bunny will not be pleased if you don't and not so sure that Father Christmas would be best pleased living as he does on your northern extremity! So no Christmas pressies for Finns inless this abuse is fin or even finne!
 

Thomas Barlish (29)
Friday October 23, 2009, 7:30 am
they are still breeding to kill. im against that whole autrocity. and he is right there should no zoos anyway.
 

Jane Way (15)
Friday October 23, 2009, 11:07 am
When i was BOSS last year i banned zoo's.....why are they still here??
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (267)
Friday October 23, 2009, 12:23 pm
This is awful... why an't they do like in South Africa and give the lions horses or donkeys that have ben put down due to injury instead of giving them these bunnies.. it just seems so cruel - besides lions normally dine on big prey in the wild
 

cassie l. (223)
Friday October 23, 2009, 12:29 pm
I can only say that this is so Sad for the Bunnies, what Idiots are letting their Pet-Rabbits out in the Parks in the freezing cold of Helsinki and Stockholm, for the Authorities of these Cities to go out and kill thousands and thousands of them, In Helsinki feeding them to the Lions, and in Stockholm keeping their Citizens warm, after burning them, How bloody Disgusting for both Cities, not that America is much better, here they get the needle in the Shelters, or yes, they re being Gassed, or being killed by Employees at Petland, Bunnies are wonderful Animals, and I ve had over 30 Rescues, and I love them to death, but Kids tire very fast of these poor Creatures, they shouldn t be for Sale, very few people keep them for very long, Just stop Making Money of the Selling of these Lovely Animals
 

mary f. (78)
Friday October 23, 2009, 1:42 pm
its no good for the lions and what about the poor bunnies
 

Eugenie F-s (9)
Friday October 23, 2009, 6:05 pm
Well I am against zoos in the first place, these wild animals should be in the wild not kept in concrete jungles, just because we l'ike' living in them, doesn't mean to say they do nor actually have a life in them! And those poor bunnies, what a way to 'live'. I am so with you chris b. and as Chaz says, if you have to keep these beautiful creatures in a zoo at least feed them someething that they are used to, not these cuties! Not on, Scandinavia, what has come over you lately?
 
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