Animal cruelty at the zoo.

Although nowadays it must be admitted many zoos are now realizing animals need to be kept in accurate representations of their natural habitats and are striving to see that this is completed to standards, it was never always this way, and there are many zoo’s that use outdated methods which are so old it is considered animal cruelty and ignorant.

Animals do not like to be removed from their homes in the wild and placed in a strange enclosure any less than a human would and many animals are abused by the zoos who pledge to care for them, and we must remember that not all zookeepers are animal lovers as they claim to be.

Many zoos do not make an effort to keep mother and child, or indeed families, together after the young are born, they are sold off once they no long draw in the public with their promise of being adorable and ‘a new arrival!.’. It is horrifically common that they are sold to testing facilities and canned hunting ranches, were those who are cruel and rich enough to do so can shoot and kill a wild animal for sport in a fenced in area.

Furthermore, there are still zoo’s open for business which do not seem to comprehend that animals are intelligent creatures which need their minds stimulating. I have taken the time to find a video which accurately portrays more information about zoos and I implore you to take a few minutes of time to watch it.



In 1992 the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection known as BUAV unearthed that the Woburn Wild Animal Park and Longleat Safari Park were providing the company Shamrock GB Limited with primates, which is the UK’s largest supplier of monkeys and small rodents for scientific research. Animals that have not already died prematurely from stress, it has been proven, are sold to the exotic meat industry and to the circuses.