#wild animal sanctuary

Some of their animals also look downright obese. (I have not been picky with these images.)

Yes, that cage is at TWAS. Tiny, barren concrete, is that the tiger’s only indoor shelter? Also, that gap below looks suspicious. The tiger could grab a foot from there.

This is not a comment on “which is worse”. I don’t know everything about the husbandry in each facility, and it’s quite possible many of these animals have better lives here than where they came from, though not as good as advertised. They have no moral high ground on to stand and criticize zoos.

My point is that they’re lying, misrepresenting, and this whole hypocrite animal scamtuary industry, they lobby to destroy good facilities (not talking about the GW Zoo here) and private owners, to take their animals that had better lives at their original homes.

And then their animals are obese and live in subpar enclosures. (Or as in the case of Big Cat Rescue, live in tiny, round cages held together by tiny metal hoops and have to lay down in mud during the rainy season and have to drink dirty water and have barely any toys or enrichment and live on an old dump and get diseases from feral cats and…)

Again, no zoo would get away with this.

The last episode then closed with some more animal rights propaganda. Just letting the hypocrite sanctuary people have their say. If they truly believed the animals’ lives are not worth living, they would put them all down. But they do not believe their own words. And zoo animals, in most cases, have much better lives than at these scamtuaries.

They say the wild is thriving and perfect, like they’re pretending the massive trade in tiger parts doesn’t exist. Pretending that the African lion hasn’t declined by 50% in 20 years. Pretending that the Asiatic lion isn’t on the brink of extinction, and almost every other big cat is in decline in the wild.

They say “a tiger can travel 800 miles in the wild” …in what? A day? A year? Its lifetime? 800 miles is 1287 km, that means the tiger has to run at over 53 km an hour straight (its max speed it can only do in short bursts) for 24 hours… yeah, not likely. More lies.

And for the record, a human “can travel” 192 miles in one day. It doesn’t mean we need that space.