Enough is enough...the Calgary Zoo needs

[hillbillyreefer]

Originally Posted by 'Ol Nobodaddy

Again...i've never seen an animal hang themselves in the WILD. That meaning without the encroachment of humans in one way or another. If you had no fence there the moose wasn't going to run into a tree and get tangled now was it

You are correct, unfortunately there is something called reality. Guess the horrible person didn't have to cut the fence either but I did. Then I had to fix it to keep the ranchers cows in. Guess I didn't have to but then somebody would have been mad at him because his cows were out on another persons property, or worse standing on the road for you and your kids to come along and hit with your vehicle.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by hillbillyreefer

You are correct, unfortunately there is something called reality. Guess the horrible person didn't have to cut the fence either but I did. Then I had to fix it to keep the ranchers cows in. Guess I didn't have to but then somebody would have been mad at him because his cows were out on another persons property, or worse standing on the road for you and your kids to come along and hit with your vehicle.

I;m neither condemning you for the fence nor the rebuilding of said fence. I was only stating the rather obvious point that in general an animal isn't going to hang themselves in naturally occurring wilderness. That being said of course accidents happen, people try and use reason to figure out why, this does not work. It's like the people who build next to the ocean in tsunami country and then when the inevitable happens, cry out why why did this happen to me. It didn't it just happened, you were there...things do just happen. Poor goats and things are not exempt from it In retrospect i will praise you for rebuilding the fence and not having a helping hand in death by cow for the little kiddies and their parents out for a nice sunday drive through cowland

[Keri]

Originally Posted by 'Ol Nobodaddy

I've yet to see a wild animal hang themselves , plus don't knock the gift girl..it's ignorant.

Hey, I'm not knocking the gift shop girls intelligence simply because she works in a gift shop, but because it was just rather odd of her to say "it happens all the time" when goats hanging themselves in their enclosure clearly doesn't happen all the time. Like the person ahead of me posted, she was likely placating the visitor and then contacted someone. The remark itself probably doesn't sound that smart but I doubt she meant it with any harm. Zoos get all kinds of weird comments from visitors, the last time I was at the zoo another visitor was asking if the turles all piled up on the log together should be moved as they were "suffocating" the lower ones. The zookeeper answered very politely.