i did'nt think the zoo would counter sue - but i am so glad the zoo did.
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the more safety structures put in place, the less responsible some(many) parents becomes, what did that child learn - he should of felt a little fear and learned some respect for animals with large teeth-he should of learnt that stressing an animal can be dangerous but no - but what if the glass had broke - what if because the lion was riled up the lion had attacked another lion in the enclosure.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...attacked-by-lion-south-africa-moholoholo.html
quote--Jones said other witnesses at the park reported that Fagen was too close to the enclosure and was warned by other students to move back when the lion grabbed her.
“It’s almost impossible for anything to happen unless you break the rules,” he said.
“She’s probably been watching too many TV programs where you see tame lions and people are hugging them. That is imprinted in their minds. She’s come from Canada not realizing she’s in wild Africa and trying to hug these animals.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/12/lauren-fagen-girl-attacked-by-lion_n_3585833.html
quote--“This little girl, she confessed the first day, ‘I’ve come to hug a lion or a cheetah or a leopard. I want to hug them.' I said, ‘You cannot hug no animal. A week later, she’s trying to hug the leopards. She’s chasing the antelope around the yard. She’s trying to hug them. I thought, ‘Goodness me. She’s cuckoo.’”
Zoos have wild animals, many of them predators, the animals are dangerous, it is the parent or guardian that is responsible to read the safety signs and be responsible for any child in that environment.
The zoos responsibility is to make sure the animals cannot escape and cause harm. It is not the zoos responsibility to parent the parents, maybe the zoo could offer guided tours at an extra cost to the consumer, then the guide can read the safety signs to the parents.
It was the first time EVER that the wild dogs have been bred in captivity, the first time EVER that they could start to understand the social structure of these very endangered animals.
A Wild dog breeding might never happen again- obviously the zoo had created the right enviroment for the wild dogs- but now they have no wild dogs and years of research lost, i remember reading about the successful breeding-it was epic , it is very important to the survival of the breed, captive life is possibly the only future existence of the African wild dog.
the zoo should sue for its losses, aka- public attendence-research- death of wild dog etc.
i so wish the parents had just let it be - but as said up thread suing - its the American way. jmo mooo
