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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals&quot;- Charles Darwin]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals&#8221;- Charles Darwin</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did anyone get fired for this &quot;accident&quot;? There was plenty of time to get the animals out and I believe the keepers didn&#039;t give 100% that day. I really hope more bison are put in in the near future.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did anyone get fired for this &#8220;accident&#8221;? There was plenty of time to get the animals out and I believe the keepers didn&#8217;t give 100% that day. I really hope more bison are put in in the near future.</p>
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		<title>By: Cee&#8217;s Fun Foto Challenge: Water. &#171; beyondpaisley</title>
		<link>http://zooamerica.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/loss-of-bison-at-zooamerica/#comment-1228</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cee&#8217;s Fun Foto Challenge: Water. &#171; beyondpaisley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] its banks in a big way.  Further south of us the flooding was much worse and saw its share of tragedy but in the &#8216;burg, it primarily caused mess and inconvenience.  Unless you&#8217;re a pair of [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] its banks in a big way.  Further south of us the flooding was much worse and saw its share of tragedy but in the &#8216;burg, it primarily caused mess and inconvenience.  Unless you&#8217;re a pair of [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Linda Brussellis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Brussellis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is a grren iguana named Izzy. Just don&#039;t have room for bigger pen and he need more room. If you can help please let me know.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is a grren iguana named Izzy. Just don&#8217;t have room for bigger pen and he need more room. If you can help please let me know.</p>
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		<title>By: Linda Brussellis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Brussellis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need home for 4 year old iguana.  Getting to big to keep. He is 3 ft or more in length. I am willing to donate him to your zoo.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Need home for 4 year old iguana.  Getting to big to keep. He is 3 ft or more in length. I am willing to donate him to your zoo.</p>
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		<title>By: Jodi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were just at the zoo on Saturday How i missed what happened to the bison is beyond me I think what happened is heartbreaking. I cant imagine why the outcome was what it was. Was ther NO WAY to save those poor animals???? I know we will not be coming to Zoo America anymore. If you take on the task of caring for animals then you need to have plans in order in case of emergency to keep them safe!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We were just at the zoo on Saturday How i missed what happened to the bison is beyond me I think what happened is heartbreaking. I cant imagine why the outcome was what it was. Was ther NO WAY to save those poor animals???? I know we will not be coming to Zoo America anymore. If you take on the task of caring for animals then you need to have plans in order in case of emergency to keep them safe!</p>
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		<title>By: Deb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to this zoo was one of the most horrible experiences in my life!! The animals are in tiny enclosures...rocking back and forth or pacing. 

Zoo America is CRIMINAL!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Going to this zoo was one of the most horrible experiences in my life!! The animals are in tiny enclosures&#8230;rocking back and forth or pacing. </p>
<p>Zoo America is CRIMINAL!</p>
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		<title>By: Brad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debbie, it wasn&#039;t a mercy killing.  Forcing a beast to watch his own sister drowned then noose it off to a gate, suffocating him in high water is not merciful, its just the opposite torture.  Pulling down the fence, and tossing a flashbang, chewtoy, whatever inspired it to leave the dangerous area for higher ground is what should have occured.  Preparations and forthought would have been the way to go also.  This ZooAmerica Curator isn&#039;t qualified to muck a stall.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Debbie, it wasn&#8217;t a mercy killing.  Forcing a beast to watch his own sister drowned then noose it off to a gate, suffocating him in high water is not merciful, its just the opposite torture.  Pulling down the fence, and tossing a flashbang, chewtoy, whatever inspired it to leave the dangerous area for higher ground is what should have occured.  Preparations and forthought would have been the way to go also.  This ZooAmerica Curator isn&#8217;t qualified to muck a stall.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope someone has notified Hershey park that the area may experience flash flooding again today!  PLEASE!  This story sickens me to no end!  I will not visit again!!!  My heart does go out to the employees, that were more than likely just doing what they were instructed to do. I have no doubt that they have deep concern for the animals in their care, although I wish someone would have used better judgement.

  I am REALLY more outraged, at the powers that be, and that their first concern was how to make a few more dollars, by remaining open to the public.  Please!  Was anyone really interested in a trip to the zoo during a flood?  Good Lord!  Why were such large, and potentially difficult to evacuate animals. placed in such a vulnerable area to begin with???  Did anyone think this through? 

  Come on!  I hope the souls of these two beautiful creatures are at total peace, and roaming free!  No more cages, no more danger, no more suffering! I hope they can forgive their &quot;care takers&quot;  Although, I&#039;m sure they will.  They are peace loving creatures!  Shame on Hershey park!  

With appropriate planning,  I&#039;m sure plenty of volunteers would have come fourth to help the cause.  There are plenty of Veterinarians, as well as those with the equipment, and shelter who would have been happy to help these two animals.  Especially in the Hershey area!  I hope that they didn&#039;t suffer too long!  AFH]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope someone has notified Hershey park that the area may experience flash flooding again today!  PLEASE!  This story sickens me to no end!  I will not visit again!!!  My heart does go out to the employees, that were more than likely just doing what they were instructed to do. I have no doubt that they have deep concern for the animals in their care, although I wish someone would have used better judgement.</p>
<p>  I am REALLY more outraged, at the powers that be, and that their first concern was how to make a few more dollars, by remaining open to the public.  Please!  Was anyone really interested in a trip to the zoo during a flood?  Good Lord!  Why were such large, and potentially difficult to evacuate animals. placed in such a vulnerable area to begin with???  Did anyone think this through? </p>
<p>  Come on!  I hope the souls of these two beautiful creatures are at total peace, and roaming free!  No more cages, no more danger, no more suffering! I hope they can forgive their &#8220;care takers&#8221;  Although, I&#8217;m sure they will.  They are peace loving creatures!  Shame on Hershey park!  </p>
<p>With appropriate planning,  I&#8217;m sure plenty of volunteers would have come fourth to help the cause.  There are plenty of Veterinarians, as well as those with the equipment, and shelter who would have been happy to help these two animals.  Especially in the Hershey area!  I hope that they didn&#8217;t suffer too long!  AFH</p>
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		<title>By: Brad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m a Hershey Resident and live 5min from the Bison.   Here are my thoughts.

Hershey Foods and Derry Township needs fined.  For inadequetly redirecting the upstream creek thru a CLOSED factory.  That factory once operated on manpower, now all the jobs are going to robotics.  

Just upstream, it flows thru the plant, just prior to entering the zoo.  Had a reservoir been built, none of this would have happened.  Had a human been on the job in the factory, instead of a machine.  None of this would have happened.  

But instead of a reservoir, what does Hershey zoning permit to be built there?  A golf course.  They are in part to blame for this travesty.  More so than that Curator who was just working with what he had.  A zoo in a crawspace/gully.

The water here didn&#039;t go from inches to feet in minutes like this phoney bolognie PR says.  It did pour fast and hard, quickly, but not that fast.  Not to whole feet, in minutes, your talking about 6-7 feet to drown a bison right?  Well that didn&#039;t happen in 10min.   

That creek burst out from that dammed up stream, thanks to Hershey Foods, who inadequetly mismanaged its flow thru its Plant.

I believe the coyotes were a type of praire dog.  Further PR lies.  Yeah they don&#039;t have coyotes, but they did have lotsa crazy canines.  They were screaming as their holes filled with water, I imagine.   

Hershey is surrounded by cattle farms that provide the Corporation with its highly genetically modified milk, one of those could have easily housed those bison if they had actually practiced their emergency drills, and relocated the outside ground pounders.  

The National Guard was here, and their is an Army base not far.  It has many helecopters that would have been able to airlift a harnessed animal.  Hell many towns have bulls charging down the streets...

I wanna know why they tried to cover it up, and say both were shot, instead of report the truth.  That beast drowned in a cage, I can&#039;t think of a worse way to go.  I&#039;d have been paranoid too.

Demote the Curator,  revoke ALL HERCO&#039;s outdoor exhibit permits, fire the safety inspector who last signed off on the Zoos 4 yearly inspections, Fine HERCO, and then Fine Hershey Foods, and then SUE Derry Township&#039;s zoning department, for their unsafe waterways in a residential and commercial area.  

Thank god PETA is on it now, atleast somebody is doing the right thing.  Hershey sure isn&#039;t.  Milton&#039;s prolly rolling over in his grave.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a Hershey Resident and live 5min from the Bison.   Here are my thoughts.</p>
<p>Hershey Foods and Derry Township needs fined.  For inadequetly redirecting the upstream creek thru a CLOSED factory.  That factory once operated on manpower, now all the jobs are going to robotics.  </p>
<p>Just upstream, it flows thru the plant, just prior to entering the zoo.  Had a reservoir been built, none of this would have happened.  Had a human been on the job in the factory, instead of a machine.  None of this would have happened.  </p>
<p>But instead of a reservoir, what does Hershey zoning permit to be built there?  A golf course.  They are in part to blame for this travesty.  More so than that Curator who was just working with what he had.  A zoo in a crawspace/gully.</p>
<p>The water here didn&#8217;t go from inches to feet in minutes like this phoney bolognie PR says.  It did pour fast and hard, quickly, but not that fast.  Not to whole feet, in minutes, your talking about 6-7 feet to drown a bison right?  Well that didn&#8217;t happen in 10min.   </p>
<p>That creek burst out from that dammed up stream, thanks to Hershey Foods, who inadequetly mismanaged its flow thru its Plant.</p>
<p>I believe the coyotes were a type of praire dog.  Further PR lies.  Yeah they don&#8217;t have coyotes, but they did have lotsa crazy canines.  They were screaming as their holes filled with water, I imagine.   </p>
<p>Hershey is surrounded by cattle farms that provide the Corporation with its highly genetically modified milk, one of those could have easily housed those bison if they had actually practiced their emergency drills, and relocated the outside ground pounders.  </p>
<p>The National Guard was here, and their is an Army base not far.  It has many helecopters that would have been able to airlift a harnessed animal.  Hell many towns have bulls charging down the streets&#8230;</p>
<p>I wanna know why they tried to cover it up, and say both were shot, instead of report the truth.  That beast drowned in a cage, I can&#8217;t think of a worse way to go.  I&#8217;d have been paranoid too.</p>
<p>Demote the Curator,  revoke ALL HERCO&#8217;s outdoor exhibit permits, fire the safety inspector who last signed off on the Zoos 4 yearly inspections, Fine HERCO, and then Fine Hershey Foods, and then SUE Derry Township&#8217;s zoning department, for their unsafe waterways in a residential and commercial area.  </p>
<p>Thank god PETA is on it now, atleast somebody is doing the right thing.  Hershey sure isn&#8217;t.  Milton&#8217;s prolly rolling over in his grave.</p>
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