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scubadude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 11:49 AM
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48. Babette here, "Mrs. Scubadude"...
While I was in college I worked as a volunteer keeper at the National Zoo for two years. The funding is terrible for anything but the pandas and elephants. All other animals were second-class.

The keepers are very dedicated and really love the animals. They are not to blame. There would be days when we had ONE apple, and stood around trying to decide which animals would get bits of it. I remember the vet decided that she was "tired" of treating one particular species of animal we kept, and ordered them all put down. That was a sad day- the keepers sobbed and thought of trying to smuggle the animals out. Alas, the animals went off with the vet.
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