{"id":3174,"date":"2025-08-12T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/woman-defends-donating-daughters-pony-to-be-lion-food-at-zoo\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:23:18","slug":"woman-defends-donating-daughters-pony-to-be-lion-food-at-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/woman-defends-donating-daughters-pony-to-be-lion-food-at-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman defends donating daughter's pony to be lion food at zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025-08-12 11:23:15<\/b>
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A woman who gave her daughter’s pony to a zoo as lion food has fired back at her critics.

\nIn Denmark, a mother called Pernille Sohl donated her daughter’s pony to the Aalborg Zoo, which has launched a “food drive” to mimic its lions’ natural food chair, with animals being sent to the tourist attraction as “whole prey”.

\nShe told The Times newspaper: “It might sound very dramatic and bizarre that you would feed your pet to animals in the zoo.

\n“But they are going to be put down anyway and it is not like they are alive when they are given to the predators.”

\nThe zoo, located in Aalborg, Denmark, said in a recent post on its Facebook page that people can hand in chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs.

\nThese animals “make up an important part of the diet” for some of their big species, including the European lynx.

\nAnd these predators need “whole prey, which is reminiscent of what it would naturally hunt in the wild”.

\nChickens, rabbits and guinea pigs can be given, but “no more than four at a time”, and the zoo assured that the donated pets will be \u201cgently euthanised\u201d by trained staff.

\nHowever, the Facebook post sparked outrage in the post’s comments section.

\nOne user raged: “How disgusting. Having your healthy pet killed.

\n“This is how people are encouraged to stop thinking twice before getting a pet, because, well, they can get rid of it anyway, thanks to the Aalborg Zoo!”

\nA second person fumed: “How sick are you to think of something like that?”

\nAnd a third commenter penned: “Insane!”

\nPia Nielsen, Aalborg Zoo’s deputy director, said: “When keeping carnivores, it is necessary to provide them with meat, preferably with fur, bones, etc, to give them as natural a diet as possible.

\n“It makes sense to allow animals that need to be euthanised for various reasons to be of use in this way.”
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