A New Zealand Sanctuary Is Asking for Cow and Horse Donations to Feed 5 Lions or the Big Cats Will Be Euthanized

"There were no real options left. The staff and I are devastated," said sanctuary operator Janette Vallance said in a ...
The New York Times

A Zoo in Denmark Wants to Feed Your Pets to Its Predators

A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion animals nearing life’s end to instead donate them as food for captive lynxes, lions and other carnivores. By Alexa Robles-Gil and Emily Anthes A zoo in ...
NBC New York

Danish zoo calls for unwanted pets to be fed to its animals

Predators at a zoo in Denmark could soon be feasting on new donations from the public — their pets. Aalborg Zoo, which sits on the outskirts of the city of the same name in the Scandinavian country’s ...
WUNC

A zoo in Denmark asked patrons to donate their pets. Not as attractions, but for food

A European zoo stirred up intrigue and controversy after a social media post asking for surplus pets to be donated to feed captive animals went viral. In a post on Facebook, the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark ...

Inside the Houston Zoo kitchen where every animal's meal is made at 5 am

At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, portioning meat and weighing hay. By the time the rest of the zoo staff arrives, ...

Inside Plymouth's long-lost zoo where you could cuddle lion cubs

Plymouth once boasted its own zoo, where visitors could feed giraffes, cuddle seals and even pet lion cubs. If you were lucky ...