I am starting to wonder if the animals in zoos are getting a bit restless? We had an exciting week watching all the news about the Bronx Zoo Cobra, who escaped. I really hope that no one in NY was really worried about that cobra getting out of the building and biting someone. Like that snake wanted to go out in the freezing cold just to bite New Yorker. The only ones that needed to worry were people in the snake house, or maybe the mice. Then again, a zoo probably only have mice for 1 reason, snake snacks. Maybe if it did get out, it could have cleaned up a bit of the rat problem around the city?
Then I see where the Barcelona Zoo had a female wolf jump out of her enclosure. It was 1st said that one of her pups had also escaped but, no one is sure about that. I would think the fact that a pup was with her would have been an important bit of info. Knowing a wolf is loose is bad enough, but I sure wouldn’t want to accidentally step in between her and her baby. I have watch those videos of “when animals attack”.
Can you imagine the workers at the zoo hearing over their radios that a wolf had gotten loose? The zoo was filled with people and even schools on field trips. Of course the zoo moved everyone into secure areas.
I wonder if I was working there and knew a wolf was prowling around if I would want all the “weaker” people in safe areas? Think about it, if the wolf was mad or hungry, I would not want her coming after me. I’d need to make sure someone was bait. If there was someone maybe smaller and weaker that couldn’t run as fast as me…then the wolf would be kept busy while I got away.
OK! I’m joking! I would never do anything like that. But, a chubby kid can’t run that fast and even if they could, they would run out of breath pretty soon (reminds me that I should quit smoking). I’d say to leave an elderly person but, they are dangerous with their canes and all. Since I have shitty luck, I would decide to leave someone in a wheel chair out of the safe area and the wolf would find us at the top of a hill and my ass would be toast when that wheel chair went speeding past me.
Jack Hanna was on David Letterman the other night and admitted that years ago while working in the Columbus zoo, he lost 2 sea snakes and never found them. I wouldn’t want to be working in their sewer system one day and find them. Then again what self respecting snakes would stay in Ohio? Hell, what self respecting anything would stay in Ohio?
After thinking about all of this, I have decided that I will not be visiting any zoos until they learn how to keep their animals under control. If I do go to the zoo, I will be taking the loud fat neighbor kid with me for escaped animal bait. How many times has this stuff happened and we never even knew? Sure anytime an animal gets out they always say “Oh this has never happened before”. Right its probably happened, they just kept it a secret.





