Wait til Santa finds out: Toronto zoo kills its male baby reindeers
Update: May 7, 2008 from Toronto Sun
Baby Rudolph gets reprieve
The Toronto Zoo will send the baby male and two male European reindeer to the Bowmanville Zoo.
However, "members of the zoo’s animal care, research and acquisition committee reviewed the euthanasia policy on Monday night and decided it was “a necessary last resort." Read more...
Update: May 6, 2008 from Toronto Sun
Will there be blood? Zoo board to decide fate of reindeer calf
"The fate of the tiny baby boy reindeer -- born late Sunday night -- will be decided at an emergency meeting of zoo officials within days."
To contact the zoo and voice your opinion:
Mailing address:
Toronto Zoo
361A Old Finch Avenue
Scarborough, Ontario
M1B 5K7
Phone: 416-392-5929
Email: tzwebmaster@torontozoo.ca
Update: May 5, 2008 from Toronto Sun
I'd have taken them: Male reindeer welcome on two Ontario farms
Original Story
posted May 5, 2008
Thanks to Mike Strobel for exposing the contradictions at the heart of zoos.
From The Toronto Sun
Zoo kills 2 baby reindeer
Wait until Santa finds out.Toronto
Staff are heartbroken -- and furious
by Mike Strobel
"Dear Santa: I hope you are sitting down.
The Toronto Zoo is killing baby boy reindeer.
Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer...
The first was dispatched shortly after his birth April 8.
His mom, Hayzel, bellowed mournfully for two days. You could hear her from Meadowvale Rd.
The second met the same fate at the point of a hypodermic on April 22.
His mom, CUPE, is named for the zoo staff's union.
Both little gaffers were chocolate brown and gangly cute. They had barely begun to nurse.
Both were perfectly healthy.
"Euthanized due to being male," says the keepers' report, terse and angry..."
Read the rest... (click here)
Baby Rudolph gets reprieve
The Toronto Zoo will send the baby male and two male European reindeer to the Bowmanville Zoo.
However, "members of the zoo’s animal care, research and acquisition committee reviewed the euthanasia policy on Monday night and decided it was “a necessary last resort." Read more...
Update: May 6, 2008 from Toronto Sun
Will there be blood? Zoo board to decide fate of reindeer calf
"The fate of the tiny baby boy reindeer -- born late Sunday night -- will be decided at an emergency meeting of zoo officials within days."
To contact the zoo and voice your opinion:
Mailing address:
Toronto Zoo
361A Old Finch Avenue
Scarborough, Ontario
M1B 5K7
Phone: 416-392-5929
Email: tzwebmaster@torontozoo.ca
Update: May 5, 2008 from Toronto Sun
I'd have taken them: Male reindeer welcome on two Ontario farms
Original Story
posted May 5, 2008
Thanks to Mike Strobel for exposing the contradictions at the heart of zoos.
From The Toronto Sun
Zoo kills 2 baby reindeer
Wait until Santa finds out.
Staff are heartbroken -- and furious
by Mike Strobel
The Toronto Zoo is killing baby boy reindeer.
Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer...
The first was dispatched shortly after his birth April 8.
His mom, Hayzel, bellowed mournfully for two days. You could hear her from Meadowvale Rd.
The second met the same fate at the point of a hypodermic on April 22.
His mom, CUPE, is named for the zoo staff's union.
Both little gaffers were chocolate brown and gangly cute. They had barely begun to nurse.
Both were perfectly healthy.
"Euthanized due to being male," says the keepers' report, terse and angry..."
Read the rest... (click here)
so proud of their breeding programs. would love to see the stats on how many babies are euthanized. Babies bring in the visitors for zoos don't they.
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This practice epitomizes what is wrong with zoos. They are 'collections' that must be 'managed' in size and content. Like stamp collections or coin collections. Fundamentally wrong for living creatures.
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This must be stopped. What can we do!
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Finally, the dirty little secret of the zoo industry is revealed. The animals are mere marketing tools, to be moved around to increase dollars at the gate, or, euthanized as surplus for tragically being born the "wrong" gender.
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