Budget cuts endanger area zoos and the lives of animals

Diana, here they took to having concerts weekly to help in funding the zoo., but we also have activites there year around, like little kid's birthday parties, the Holloween and Christms Zoo train and festival lights.

I know, some the things they do to "help" is more costly the way they do it..then if people could do it themselves at times. For isntance this bit about having to lose everything you own in order to get financial help...so there you have people that have to sell where they live..to have some place to live..because they don't get the funding otherwise, and the house they are leaving is probably an fourth the cost of the "new" government low-income facilty...and at least half the size also. Don't make sense to me either. Latest thing they got going on..no BBQ's on apartment balconies beyond the ground floor. Ground floor apartments are henceforth more expensive now. God knows what these people do if they are without electricity in them..as they added any kind of fuel type heater..cannister or tank type to the list at the same time also. Hope our winters aren't to severe. So goes for the latest of "fire codes"...and many of them are having an hard time paying monthly electrical fee's also. 

Some people's priorities are all screwed up, particularly when spending the taxpayers' money.  We are meant to look after the animals of the world, not dispose of them like yesterday's rubbish.  I see the same sort of thing happening in our schools where, at budget planning time, if cuts need to be made the first things to go are music and physical education/sport.  Our children need those things just as much as they need science and maths.  And those people handling the zoo's purse strings need to stop being so greedy and do what's right by our wonderful animals.

[stepping down from soap box...]

That's very sad, Diana, and very stupid.  I'm sure there are plenty of places that would take these animals, so that they didn't have to be euthanized.  And yes, taxpayer dollars are definitely misspent, but I wouldn't want to see program cuts to needy people happen just to keep a zoo going.  I love animals as much as anybody else here, but people come first, in my book.  As for PETA, don't even mention them.  If they aren't a terrorist organization, I don't know what is. Their solution would be to burn the zoo the the ground and "free" all the animals.

When I went to get my latest cat at an animal shelter...they call it "Pet Adoption" these days..I had to make an appt to look the animals over, talk with an pet counselor on how I was going to care for the animal...look over the animals an see which one I wanted and sit in an room to see if we were compatible with each other...most the time wearing surgical gloves. We went there for an kitten. the one we got grabbed me as I was walking by, just as he does now, and I was abuptly told then, to "not touch the animals". I then paid $100 for the cat to be picked up the next day as he was required to be nuterued and micro-chipped, and have basic shots and an license...(and it included an free "vet" insepction on its healthcertificate also). before I could take him home. Then I got an little goodie bag of advertisements on different products for him, some snacks, and what not. I thought about the nutering, as he was tiny..if you wanted an pet generation later on to get an brood..I don't know if it would be possible. I then had to sign papers that if they wanted to inspect my home on its care, they could do so. A far cry from when I was an kid and we made any "free" kittens an old mama cat had..as one of the family pets.They have an huge sign in the pound there, Nuter your pet, we know "baby"animals are cute and loved....that's why they are here. Times aren't what they use to be.