Tuesday, August 7, 2007
* National Night Out a Quacker
This video about sums up 'National Night Out' tonight at Gale Park on Howard. Lot's of unsupervised kids running around acting nutty. There were a half dozen SSA janitors or so walking around cleaning up after the messy slobs.
This poor goose was just served up a flaming hot cheeto by one of the animals outside the cage. Then some moron kid try's to serve up his evenings program guide as the main course. As you can see and hear, no one was around to let the unsupervised kid know he was doing wrong. So I had to. Poor goose. Where's Joe when you need him?
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JOE SHOUD HAVE BEN THEIR TO STAND UP FOR THAT GOOSE-
NO POLITICAL DONATIONS PROBABLY KEPT HIM AWAY----
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You're telling me Joe Moore wasn't there to protect the GEESE?
Has the world turned upside down?
You're the slob Craig
Where were the animal handlers?!?
Thank you for intervening. I hope the poor bird had some water close by. Those flaming hots really live up to their name. Damn. That's just cruel. Though, I'm sure that end of it didn't occur to the child who shared his own treat with the goose. You're right, of course, to ask where the parents were but I still have to lay most of the blame at the feet of the animal handlers. Where the f*** were they?
birds don't have saliva or a mucus membrane that can taste or feel HOT.
i fed my parrot whole chilis as part of his diet. they were a great source for vitamin A.
BUT cheetos are definitely NOT good for them to eat. thanks for intervening.
The handlers, (I counted three of them) were also busy with the silly pony walks.
When I cut the video off, that's when I corrected the young man a bit more on the 'rights and wrongs' of feeding and touching the barn yard animals.
I told them they could lose a finger doing that. That did it with the kids that were listening to me. Those kids split to reek havoc somewhere else.
Then, I went over to inform the topman handler what was going on. He then went over to tend to the matter further.
The goose was clearly agitated.
The goats, they could've cared less.
Still, I believe that wasn't the right environment to display the animals in. Just 6 miles south, there is a organized program just suited for this interaction with children and animals. It's called 'Farm in the Zoo'. And, it's free.
But, I guess, if the parents are way too busy doing something and can't find a way to the zoo once and a while with their kids, this is the best we're going to do.
This event sounds like the typical Cluster Fuck Rogers Park community activity. Animals being mistreated, Children with no adult supervision running amuck and No JOMO. Priceless.
Craig, I hope I am reading your statement incorrectly but it comes off to me as if you are insinuating a lack of active involvement by the parents where their children are concerned.
From my own personal experience when as a child (not a parent, negative population growth – but that’s a different subject), mobile "petting zoos" would come to town, my sisters and I would never pass up the opportunity to interact with the animals. Yet, we lived literally within walking distance to several farms in one direction and a country veterinarian in the other. Old Dr. Rexroad encouraged us to visit his kennels and pens because our affinity for animals seemed to calm them, especially in the case of my little sister (again, another story for another time . . .)
Craig, whether the parents were "way too busy doing something" or not to take their kids to Farm at the Zoo wasn't the point. Not for these or, I dare say, any kids. I believe that even if the kids visited the zoo every day, even if they were on their way to the zoo that day, they still would have stopped to see these animals. That's what's so cool about animals - most of us, especially kids, just wanna stop and look at them. There is also something almost magical about seeing something in your own neighborhood (a.k.a. "backyard" if you will) that usually isn't there.
This said, however, does not for a moment excuse leaving children unattended around these animals. That was dangerous for both the children and the animals. I’m just saying don’t judge these parents as neglectful in any way simply because their kids wanted to visit the display in a city with free access to a petting zoo “only six miles away.”
-PEACE-
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