Boo Boo the Bear II

Boo Boo will not be euthanized! The Conservation Department found a way to trace back his origins to the point that they can figure out whether or not he has been exposed to rabies. I'd love to say my efforts helped Boo Boo, but I doubt it, although maybe this shows that if you try hard enough to find another way, you will. It might have seemed simplest to euthanize Boo Boo, but they were able to find another way.

Boo Boo in the hands of an animal shelter.
(Courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Still, BOYCOTT CINDY'S PETTING ZOO!!! An inspector was sent there to investigate, and this was a REPEAT VIOLATION. Usually, petting zoos only have to be inspected about once a year, but this was the sixth time this year that they had to send an inspector to Cindy's. In the past, they have found sharp wires sticking out at the eye level of rabbits, pigs sitting for weeks in their own waste, water bowls with thick black-brown sludge, animals kept in close to pitch black rooms, jagged metal on cages, expired vaccinations, and, once, a goat stuck inside a feeder, its entire body weight resting on 2 wires, and the owner, Cindy Farmer, seemingly oblivious.

This is not OK! Never give this evil woman business!

However, thank God that Boo Boo was spared. If he is found rabies-less, they will find a better home for him.