Should zoos be allowed to sell or giveaway their old, unwanted or overstocked zoo animals at auction? What stops animal buyers from re-selling surplus, exotic, zoo animals to canned hunt farms in the U.S. so they can be used as target practice for unskilled weekend hunters? Absolutely no laws…nothing stops them. These surplus, exotic, wild animals have been hand-fed in cages most all of their miserable lives so it is not unusual for a ‘weekend killer’, a so-called big game hunter, to walk right up to a caged exotic zoo animal and blow away the trophy animal of their choice with a high powered rifle or bow and arrow, and at times, virtually at point blank range because weekend hunters are generally unskilled at their ‘killing craft’.
Of course, the ruthless killers will go back to work and tell their buddies all about how they bagged the big game on safari, possibly neglecting to tell them the kill took place on a ‘canned hunt’ farm consisting of no more than a couple acres somewhere in Texas or Florida where most of these canned hunt farms exist.
These exotic wild animals are so frightened and tame they must be dragged from their cages and shot on the spot. Some may even have to be shot while still in their cages. Famous movie stars have even participated in these horrific acts and have been caught on videotape shouting with glee, giggling like children as they chase down and torment frightened, penned-up, surplus, exotic zoo animals for that long awaited “kill shot” at a ‘canned hunt’ farm.
To watch on film how these cowardly, unskilled, weekend hunters end up killing exotic, trophy, surplus zoo animals, especially with a bow and arrow can be tough to watch. Some killers hit their beloved wall trophy with so many arrows without striking a fatal blow that the animal looks like a pin cushion as it stands there bellowing and crying out in excruciating, horrific pain, whimpering, quivering, dazed and confused, probably begging to be put out its misery.
These weekend hunters are too often such poor shots that oftentimes the ‘canned hunt’ farm owner/operator may have to eventually walk right up to the animal, take out his handgun, put it to the animal’s heart and put the poor animal out of its misery at point blank range to once and for all end the senseless torture.
Zoos, knowingly or unknowingly, contribute to ‘canned hunt’ farms by allowing its surplus zoo animals to end up at ‘canned hunt’ farms as undignified targets for weekend hunters. Making matters worse zoos will not even acknowledge that they know where their surplus animals even end up, or do they even want to know?
Zoos’ contribution to ‘canned hunt’ farms in America is no better than Chinese government workers, to date through 2022, going into Chinese citizens’ homes and putting numerous pet cats into bags and dragging them out to the street. Then these workers walk pet dogs out to the street too and the workers proceed to beat the pet cats and dogs to death with shovels out in the open for all to see on city streets in China for no other reason than because the pet owners test positive for Covid-19 while Chinese citizens are heard screaming for food, many dying of starvation in cities throughout China during Covid-19 lockdowns.