Waiting List Of The Week
What do you do when your horse has died? Buy a new one, of course. But there is the little matter of what you do with the dead one.
Well, the Danes, enterprising people that they are, offer the carcass of their beloved nags to Copenhagen zoo to feed to their pride of esurient lions. Better than feeding them giraffes, a practice that got the zoo into a spot of bother three years ago.
There is only one problem, though. So popular is this form of nag disposal – it is free, proponents claim that it puts the animals back into the food chain and owners find it more comforting than the horse becoming biodiesel and meat balls – that there is now a six month waiting list, I read this week.
The troubling aspect of this story is what do you do with your dead horse until such time as the lion keepers can fit it into their charges meal schedule? No answer is provided. I suspect, if you go to Denmark this winter, you may find mounds of rotting horse flesh.
Anyone got any spare lions, the hungrier the better, they can give to the zoo? That will solve the problem!
Filed under: Humour, News Tagged: Copenhagen Zoo, Danes feed dead horses to lions, Marius the giraffe, six month wait to feed dead horse to lions
