Three Wolves Shot Dead After Escaping From One of Britan’s Largest Zoos

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/27/21636963-three-wolves-shot-dead-after-escaping-from-one-of-britains-biggest-zoos

copyrighted Hayden wolf in lodgepoles

12 thoughts on “Three Wolves Shot Dead After Escaping From One of Britan’s Largest Zoos

  1. A few years ago, a zoo in Scotland shot their entire wolf pack to make room for some other unfortunate critter. Animals should be protected from this kind of thing. But what do you expect from an island full of mutton lovers and wolf-haters! I doubt they would have done better in the wild, except maybe someplace even sheep won’t go? I feel bad for the wolves and for Ratty and the Watchers! And all of us here, too!

    • That’s pretty insulting and xenophobic. I’ve known plenty of people from Britain who adore wolves, have wolf characters and would do anything to protect them.
      Also, quite a few of them think mutton is gross. Not only to mention this, but if you’re American, you’re likely British yourself.

  2. People who naively think that a “rural lifestyle is somehow romantic and “sustainable” do not face the reality of what really goes on. Britain long ago exterminated most large “predators”–and for what? The same reason this extermination goes on here in the U.S.: for livestock. The anti-wolf, and other prejudices against native animals is deeply entrenched in their mindset, and very few ever change, and certainly the industry itself never does, as we see here in The West. The official mantra of The Livestock industry is: anti wildlife protection, and opposition to all re-introduction programs pertaining to native animals–except some ungulates they like to use as “game animals.”

  3. The punishment for returning home in the wild where they belong is the death penalty? Sounds like just a regular day in human society. Not even other humans are treated too well. For example, people are afraid of you if you run on four legs, threaten to call a doctor, think you’re sick, etc. You guys used to be feral quadrupeds yourselves during one point in evolution. Honestly.
    I don’t get what makes a human’s life more important than a wolf’s when they’re both biologically animals. Not only to mention that many of the people who hate wolves have dogs as pets. Dogs are wolves. Case closed.

Leave a reply to Rosemary Lowe Cancel reply