Depressing and disgusting conditions
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 6/5/10
I'm not sure how this zoo was evened open, I left feeling very, very depressed when leaving, these animals seemed to be under constant strain from their handlers. The elephants were being cropped and the camels were tied down at all times giving out rides. What was the worst part was the bears. None of the bear exhibits had water in them. This is in June, and these bears carry an enormous ton of fur, while having no water available to them, or shade, one of the bears had no teeth. I'm afraid to think that they let him starve because he cant chew. The employees who weren't beating one of the animals were standing around talking. Some of the enclosures I'm not even sure had animals because the foliage had grown so high it came above the fence line. The apes did have a pool though, of what seemed to be a urine dirt soaked pool. Oh, and if these poor animals didn't die from dehydration, they would have died from second hand smoke. It reeked so bad of smoke from just walking through the entrance, the smell stayed with us the whole trip. The otters got so close you could reach down and pet one. I was also excited about seeing the lorikeets, but the cage was empty, along with half the zoo,including visitors. The petting zoo was rather disturbing. These animals were locked up and couldn't be petted becuase they were tested HIV positive, these poor animals could have been treated better by far. I felt bad and very depressed for these poor animals. Maybe someone will help them soon.