I’m pretty sure that Lexie wanted to take this one home with us! You can purchase the feed cups for a few dollars and I highly recommend getting one per person- we easily spent almost an hour feeding and playing with the petting zoo animals. The kids had so much fun feeding the goats- and the goats seemed to enjoy it as well! There’s an extensive petting zoo and you can feed many of the hooved animals. For most families, you’ll need 2-3 hours to do everything in the zoo making it great for a half-day of fun. Thank you so much to the Gulf Breeze Zoo for hosting us- we received complimentary admission, but all opinions are honest and my own.Ĭompared to the NC Zoo, the Gulf Breeze Zoo is quite small, but they manage to pack A LOT of fun into a small area. The Gulf Breeze Zoo is a fun stop while you’re in the Pensacola area, and it’s conveniently located between Pensacola and Pensacola Beach. A former animal curator testified that Eric Mogensen is “sick and sadistic” for allowing animals to be killed by shooting them, slamming them into walls, and feeding them to other animals.įor more information, please visit don’t know about your kids, but mine LOVE going to the zoo! We have a membership to our local zoo but when we’re traveling, we like to check out the offerings from other zoos. In 2012, GBZ Director Eric Mogensen’s daughter, who now works at GBZ, was sentenced to jail for cruelty to animals after she drowned an injured wallaby in a plastic bucket and attempted to cover up her crime. PETA also notes that the facility’s staff lacks the experience and expertise necessary to run a conservation and breeding program. “PETA is calling on the government to stick to the purpose of the Endangered Species Act-and that’s protecting wild animals, not breeding and warehousing them in cruel menageries.” “The Gulf Breeze Zoo cannot be allowed to breed more animals when it clearly can’t or won’t properly care for the animals it already holds captive,” says PETA Foundation Deputy General Counsel for Captive Animal Law Enforcement Delcianna Winders. It also lacks accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which rejected GBZ in 2006 after finding 38 zoo practices to be “questionable” and 24 more “unacceptable,” including the facility’s failure to have appropriate, secure enclosures. Department of Agriculture for allowing newborn rabbits to be eaten by adult rabbits in a severely crowded enclosure, for maintaining exhibits that were so unsafe that visitors could stick their fingers in the animals’ enclosures, and for failing to provide animals with appropriate veterinary care. PETA points out that captive-bred wildlife permits require licensees to enhance the propagation or survival of the species in the wild-and the facility has failed to give any indication as to how displaying captive animals will enhance wild populations. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) opposing the Gulf Breeze Zoo’s (GBZ) application for a permit to breed endangered animals. – PETA has just filed formal comments with the U.S. Menagerie With History of Neglecting Animals Unqualified to Enhance Survival of Endangered Ones, Says Group
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