"I gave Angelina the various options and she chose the one with the zoo, because it made the most sense.... She had previously watched one of my horses being taken away by the vet to be euthanised, and it was a bad experience for her. She said that this time she wanted to follow the food chain. She wanted Chicago 57 to benefit other animals.”
Sohl was present when the pony was humanely killed with a bolt gun. “There was a zookeeper standing there cuddling and kissing him — as if it was me standing with him,” she said. “I got to say a final goodbye.” She was told afterwards that his carcass had been fed to the zoo’s lions.
And here's our discussion from last week about the Aalborg Zoo eating-the-pets program.
ADDED: "I hate anyone that ever had a pony when they were growing up."
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Well, if it's good enough for those humans across in the Netherlands and Canada.....
Planned Ponyhood
"I gave Angelina the various options and she chose the frat house, because it made the most sense.... She had previously watched one of my goldfish flushed down the toilet and it was a bad experience for her. She said that this time she wanted to have fun. She wanted Bubbles to go to a party house.”
Sohl was present when the beer bong went around. “There was like a future Senator wearing a kilt, holding him by the tail and kissing him — as if it was me standing with him,” she said. “I got to say a final goodbye.” She was told afterwards that the boy threw up into a toilet and Bubbles was flushed anyway.
killed with a bolt gun
No Country For Old Ponies
Bolt guns are Humane.
The pony-level rich sending their pets off to be eaten? That tracks with their lifestyle. I'm surprised the left doesn't have much more success in calling for guillotines.
People for Eating Tasty Animals
*sigh*
That's all I've got.
PETA is an ethical, if not ideal Choice.
poor pony's last moments will be complete terror.
that's life in the wild - but not very fair to a domestic pet.
Not a choice I could make -
It won’t be long before AI-generated ponies are being fed to AI-generated lions in AI-designed, built, and maintained zoos.
What will people do for jobs then?
How awful.
Not really. Where do people think carnivorous animal feed comes from anyway, a vat of goop?
Wouldn't the lions have enjoyed the experience more if they'd made the kill themselves? Why suppress their natural instincts in this way.
They could institute wagering on the lions, and generate some much-needed income.
At least Anthony Fauci didn't get his hands on the poor beast.
That's rough. Not ideal for Utopia (or Petopia).
The horse mentioned in the article was old and had medical issues. But horses do live 20-25 years and little girls who age out of them suddenly leave a horse with plenty of life yet.
This is a good option at the time of putting the animal down, but it will be abused by those who suddenly find their perfectly healthy horse to be a burden.
So its horse day at Althouse. Dead is dead. Whether your horse is to be killed and buried or killed and fed to a "predator" doesn't make much difference. Except to the predator.
“I Dig a Pony”
—— Leo the Lion
People need to stop getting pets they grow tired of, and ones they cant care for. The animal shelters are full of unwanted pets.
I was given a tour of the back operations at the Wild Animal Sanctuary outside of Keenesburg CO - about a decade ago. Pat Craig's operation of mercy. They rescue & rehabilitate and care for wild animals that were kept in horrible zoos or awful cages by horrible humans. (from all over the world) It's many acres large. Anyway - the feeding operation consisted of donated meets that were mixed with vitamins and then frozen into giant cubes.
It was very impressive.
She was told afterwards that his carcass had been fed to the zoo’s lions.
So long as he crossed the Rainbow Bridge it's all good.
I live where a lot of people have horses or run horse boarding stables. I also ride a little bit myself. It’s always little girls who fall in love with horses and have to have one. They get older and lose interest and parents who bought a horse are stuck with $7,000 bill each year. Smarter parents lease a horse.
What if they did this with people too?
Can I donate liberal classmates and relatives?
This is really something I have no issue with. Harkening back to a time, oh I don’t know, maybe the 70’s and 80’s, when if yo lived anywhere outside the city, you did what you had to do for practical reasons.
During a period of some family dysfunction, I lived with and Aunt and Uncle and their 7 children on a 40 acre farm in a rural part of Parker County just west of Ft. Worth. I was in 3rd/4th grade at the time. We had a 4 acre garden, 3 dozen chickens, 20 or so head of cattle, a half dozen pigs and pretty much only went to store in Weatherford for the most basic stuff that we couldn’t supply from the land. We’d also hunt quail and dove during the season and the older boys went with my Uncle to a deer lease nearby for additional meet. Only my Uncle worked but he had a fairly well paying job as a dentist with his own practice.
I remember us slaughtering animals for meat, chickens and pigs mostly. I got the eggs every morning from the chickens for breakfast. We’d work the rows of various vegetables as they became ripe, pickled the hell out of stuff and deep froze a lot of it, too.
Back then, you didn’t spay or neuter your farm pets. That was a luxury expense and in general, we were far enough away from other farms that it wasn’t a big deal. But occasionally, one of the cats would get pregnant. We’d always keep a kitten or two to keep a supply of mousers but try to give away the rest. Those that we couldn’t give away would be put down by my older cousins with .22’s. Just the way things were.
Point being, it’s only recently that folks get their panties in a wad about stuff like this and I find it absurd. It’s the same with folks getting bent out of shape about hunting, not realizing hunters are the biggest contributors to conservation efforts, through taxes and charitable organizations like DU or CCA. When you are stewards of animals, whether in a zoo or in horse farm paddock, there is always a balance of interests for all the animals. As long as an animal put down humanely, I can see no reason to object to donating it for the health and well being of other animals. Good for that family for doing so.
So World War III has already started and it's not going well?
The next step will be eating the zoo animals.
they're eating our pets!
they're eating our ponies!
and WE are Letting them!
She wanted Chicago 57 to benefit other animals.
"Chicago 57?" How old was the pony? It sounds like Sam Giancana gave it to Frank Sinatra.
Anyway, Chicago LVII was a great album.
Serious question
Didn't the British Empire USED TO be something?
when did the Pakistanis and the Hindus take it all over?
Canada?
England?
Scotland?
Didn't these places used to be something?
or was that just on TV?
Meanwhile, your moment of Zen:
https://youtu.be/mc1W_Pys88U?feature=shared
No zoo for old ponies.
Imagine if the ruling class succeeds in reducing human population to a fraction of what it is now, while the elites live in their walled enclaves and use the rest of the untamed world as a zoo. Proles will be kept as pets, so long as they toe the line. And if they don't?
"Stan was present when the prole was humanely killed in accordance with MAID protocols. “There was a zookeeper standing there cuddling and kissing him — as if it was me standing with him,” he said. “I got to say a final goodbye.” He was told afterwards that his carcass had been fed to the zoo’s lions."
Are zoos even defensible in 2025?
I want to see her reaction when she wakes up with the horse’s head in her bed.
I think they did this to Elvis.
Seems “performative”. How many tons per day of Tiger food do you think ponies will produce compared to demand. And is the mother trying to produce another Gretchen?
This is really going to spike the price of glue. I need to call my broker and get on some Elmers common shares.
Vet euthanizing bad. Zookeeper euthanizing is just fine though. It is different when they do it.
I loves BIG Ponies
And I ain’t lion
—— Sir Eat-a-Lot
besides the obvious, the zoo didn't have enough meat on reserve for the obvious carnivores,
“People are outraged”
People are stupid.
That Seinfeld clip didn't age very well for me. I remember thinking it was a very funny show.
I" lived with and Aunt and Uncle and their 7 children on a 40 acre farm...".
Only 40 acres? It sounds like you did a LOT with only 40 acres. But the dentist was certainly the cornerstone of viability.
I'm sure her daughter will remember the mom "wanted to follow the food chain" at the appropriate time.
One mother is correct. Recycling is certifiably organic.
Planned Parenthood umbrella corporation #CecileTheCannibal is ethical.
Organ donation, etc. is science.
That said, humans have a moral component, maybe, baby
The ensemble acting in Seinfeld was some of the best ever.
They should have collected a bucket of the poop after the lion ate the pony.
They could have told the girl that Chicago 57 had been reincarnated.
Apologies to the cowboy poet whose name I don't remember
In the 50s I attended 1-4 grades at Burgundy Farm School in Alexandria VA. Literally within sight of the Washington Monument. https://burgundyfarm.org/
In 3rd grade our class got a piglet. We raised the pig over the school year doing all the work, taking turns going in on weekends to feed it and grew it into a respectable size pig.
Then one sunny spring weekend at some sort of festival for the whole school and parents we hung the pig upside down from a tree, slit it's throat, butcherd it and cooked it over a pit.
Teachers and parents did a lot of the heavy lifting but us erd graders were hands on in the butchering.
My wife was absolutely appalled when I told her the story. She is convinced it traumatized and fucked me up for life.
John Henry
We also, perhaps second grade, visited a high volume beef slaughterhouse and saw the entire process from live steer to steak.
The school firmly believed eating meat was a fine thing but we needed to know where it came from
John Henry
Feeding unwanted livestock to zoo predators is nothing new. It's just not a thing that most zoos have wanted to publicize until now.
So, "There is pony in that giant pile of shit" is sometimes true.
I had to look up Burgundy Farm School as I lived nearby for 20+ years but never heard of it. It's labeled as "progressive" and integrated in 1950. It's near the top of Telegraph Hill. We lived due north on Seminary Hill, and the steep Telegraph ridge reflected the Beltway and RR noise back to us, a good mile away. I've seen a Civil War photo of Telegraph that was treeless, unlike now, but the Yankees may have cut them all down for sight lines for the forts that dotted the high ground.
Several people kept horses near us in the early 70s, which is hard to believe now, it's so crowded.
Horses should sign organ donor cards.
So far nobody has mentioned the starving children in Gaza.
Holy cow. I went looking for the old My Little Pony toy commercial, and find out there was a My Little Pony kids show for 15 seasons. I’m so out of the loop.
Len: Wait till you hear about bronies.
Great Britain must be all out of Christians.
That line about ‘giving the daughter’s pony to the zoo to feed the lions’ took almost no time to take hold of the collective imagination as something worthy of praise. Would that have been considered as admirable back in the 70s and 80s? I don’t think so. I might be wrong.
I had a pony when I was young. Back then they weren't just for rich kids. We were farmers getting by. My dad cut down an old work horse bridle and I learned to ride bareback because saddles were too expensive. I fell off until I learned to stay on. To this day (I'm 72) I would rather ride saddleless. Kept Dusty until I was about 14, then had to sell him to size up.
But horses do live 20-25 years...
My second to last horse lived to be 28; my last one to 33. The "dead truck" came and picked it up when it died a natural death.
Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue in Rock Springs used to ask for "large animal feed" but the last I knew you had to haul it up there yourself and we didn't have any way. I just checked their website and I saw nothing about bringing old horses, cattle, etc., so maybe it's different now.
I had to look up Burgundy Farm School as I lived nearby for 20+ years but never heard of it...It's near the top of Telegraph Hill. We lived due north on Seminary Hill... Several people kept horses near us in the early 70s, which is hard to believe now, it's so crowded.
Northern Virginia has exploded over the years for sure. A neighbor remembered riding horses at stables where 66 now intersects with the Beltway (495). She was doing that as a little girl in the 60's. With all the intersections and EZ Pass crossovers and all that, there's segments there that are probably 16 lanes across, it's nuts.
Even though it's close in, in the 50's you'd reach true rural Virginia very quickly from Burgundy Farm School and all that. So I'm not surprised to learn about a kids' communal pig slaugther at the end of Be Nice To Pig season.
I had pet rabbits. They were delicious.
I understand/realize these things happen. But when did it become newsworthy?
Slippery slope. First they come for the ponies. Then it's the Christians. Then it's televised live from the Coliseum during sweeps week with Colbert hosting.
Trees "cut down for sight lines for the forts" --- and for constructing the forts themselves. Lots of wood required.
On our field trips we went to the Wonder Bread bakery. Big whoop!
Feed the carcass to the lions or the worms. Perhaps a carbon supplement for fertile soils and green plains.
“But when did it become newsworthy?“
I’m guessing it might have something to do with the “authenticity” theme of late.
What happens to the dead lions?
Soylent Green, animal style.
“ So, "There is pony in that giant pile of shit" is sometimes true.”
Ponies and rabbits and pigs, oh my!
I notice they used the bolt to kill the pony. That makes it better since no medical residues from euthanasia drugs. Ponies generally live a lot longer than horses like up to 70 years old. So I wonder why the pony was scheduled to be put down. As to using the carcass to feed zoo animals , I am pretty sure that is standard practice.
“But when did it become newsworthy?“
Since they been able to sell virtue for signaling.
RIP Bobby Whitlock, 77…
There seems to be frequent charity
tv commercials with abused, neglected, sad eyed dogs.
Seems an obvious solution. to lion food shortage
I read about this business in The Guardian last week, and then they ran a second article yesterday, about the reactions of people to the first article (or to the 'news' reported in it). It was even more amusing than the first one. 'Why is the zoo feeding pets to their animals; why not just buy meat?'-- that was quoted by the Guardian writer as a actual comment from a living human being.
The first 100 degree F. day this Lammastide, and tomorrow, then down ten or so degrees Tuesday. Or not.
Someone on X suggested this would be a good use for pit bulls. I agree.
JAORE said...
“It sounds like you did a LOT with only 40 acres. But the dentist was certainly the cornerstone of viability.”
So did the gas wells!
In 2030, the story will be: "I gave the zoo my beloved daughter to be fed to the lions." Followed by much praise. Europe is skipping straight to the Late Roman Decadence phase of their evolution.
"In 2030, the story will be . . . ."
Man, a story about how carnivores get fed in a zoo sure generates a lot of high-falutin cultural critique.
Spiros said...
"What if they did this with people too?"
They do in Canada and Great Britain. Except they don't feed them to zoo animals.
Yet.
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