Marius the Giraffe

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-10/news/chi-danish-zoo-giraffe-20140209_1_giraffe-zoo-veterinarian-british-zoo

This article is about how the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark shot and killed a giraffe just because it didn't want it to inbreed. That may seem like a good reason but they could have transferred it to another zoo or sold it to private buyers. They took Marius, the giraffe, out into its pen while the zoo had visitors watching. They fed him some bread, his favorite food, then pulled out a gun and shot him in the head. Not only that but then they continued to gut it and then feed it to the zoo's polar bears, tigers and lions. I feel that the zoo is completely wrong and should not have done that.They killed it because of overcrowding and they didn't want it to inbreed. They didn't have to kill him, they could have transferred him to any other zoo. 4 other zoo's offered to take him but they said they could not because those zoo's didn't have the sale values and standards as there zoos.  There were also private buyers that offered to buy him but the zoo said no because its easier for them to just shoot it, then to deal with paperwork. That's not the only thing, they shot it while people were at the zoo which means there were children present. In the pictures of them gutting him, you can clearly see children in the front row. Like are you kidding me?! That is absolutely ridiculous. They should have at minimum took it to a private pen or waited until the zoo closed. Imagine your child scarred by the memory of a slaughtered giraffe. There are rumors that the Copenhagen Zoo is planning on putting down a second giraffe, also named Marius, but they denied these rumors. I think the zoo is probably planning on killing a second giraffe but are holding because of all the backlash they are facing from killing the first giraffe. I think the zoo should be shut down and all the animals transferred to zoo's were the zookeeper actually care about animals because the Copenhagen Zoo is ridiculous. I understand they don't want inbreeding for the sake of future giraffe generations but i do not understand how they can stand the fact that they killed a baby giraffe just out of there pure laziness. The zookeepers that killed Marius are getting death threats and i think that a little excessive, i just think the zoo needs to rethink its value system because all they seem to care about is money. The whole purpose of a zoo is to take care of exotic and endangered animals, not slaughter them in front of everyone just because they are unwilling to actually do there job and save the zoo the money of working out negotiations to take the giraffe to another zoo. This article just upsets me because i can't believe that we are living in a world were people dedicate there lives to saving animals and then for the sake of money, abandon all of there beliefs. It just disappoints me.