Update on the Dry Elly situation

Elly

Mishaki

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

It would seem, that maybe alittle noise has helped this situation! If you haven't read the first article, please see the previous post, "Black Rhino So DRY Skin is Now Cracking!!!"

September 22: It was World Rhino Day, I went to the Zoo to celebrate our wonderful Rhinos! Its curious that the Zoo whose Mission includes Educating People, doesn't recognize these "days" and celebrate the Residents. I digress. ... As I approached the Black Rhino enclosure, what did I see but Miss Elly standing front and center smiling! I was so happy to see her up front! AND she seemed happy to be there :)

October 1: Elly still up front and happy to see the people! Being up front really agrees with her. When she was first moved to the new enclosure, her energy was rejuvenated! So much to the point where she really seemed like she gained years. In her old home, she was also stuck in the back and just laid there most of the time. So it is good to see her looking happy!

Unfortunately, now that Mishaki is in back he seems bummed. I wish when they renovated this exhibit they made the separation line down the center, with both yards having a front and back, rather than a front yard and a backyard. Hopefully the Zoo gets it together and rotates these two on a regular basis. They need the environment switch up. If its too much trouble, I say too bad. Its their job to do right by these Animals.

October 8: WOW! Both Elly and Mishaki look like they have been oiled! Could it be? I think it could! Elly was in desperate need and looks so much better! I'm sure she feels more comfortable! ... Photos are from this day.

SO, in my opinion, doing the right thing for these Animals may have taken some extra time and energy, so not doing is just plain laziness. If I am to go by the information that was told to a Docent by a Keeper, that Elly had not been oiled, because it "was not feasible" to do in the back yard, I have to say there appears to be untruths, otherwise Mishaki would not appear to have been oiled as well. AND if there were adjustments made to make it "feasible", why couldn't these adjustments have been made BEFORE Elly's skin got to the condition it had AND before I had to call attention to it?

Why us?

Why are we always the ones to witness such awful behavior? It is not always even behavior as offensive as this. Yesterday I also saw someone spit a loogy (sp?) onto a tree at the Rhinos, so big it was dripping like a glob of tinsel on a Christmas Tree. Truly disgusting, I felt like vomiting. The Zoo spends money to employ a great landscaping team, who plants and cares to make the grounds nice. Would these people like someone to come and spit in their home? or garden? WHAT is wrong with people?

I see a wide variety of misconduct everywhere I go, but I've narrowed down my true disgust to situations involving animals and where they live.

Who are all the rest of the people who see this misbehavior and say nothing? Is everyone else a coward or do they not even notice because they too are despicable and think its acceptable behavior? Because in regard to yesterday, out of 30+ people, we were the only ones horrified AND I was the only one who went to report this behavior to help my Chimp friends. Why do people who don't respect animals, come to the Zoo?

The event that happened yesterday at the Chimpanzee enclosure was horrifying on a few levels.
*The abusers thought it was acceptable to visit an animal park and terrorize the Animals who live there.
*The other Visitors, joined in by finding humor in this behavior and outwardly displaying it by adding to the laughter and heckling.
*The San Francisco Zoo Staff did nothing.

I am a believer in the thought that, everything happens for a reason. There was a reason we witnessed this event yesterday. How it developed and how it was handled has a direct connection to the situation regarding the revoking of the Memberships of Lee and I. If you aren't familiar with this situation, please read the blog, www.sanfranciscozoocrime.blogspot.com

Lee reported witnessing a Visitor who had been over a barrier at the Bear Grottos. This report when all was said and done, resulted in both our Memberships being revoked. The Zoo for whatever reasons (my true suspicions will eventually be made public) fabricated a story saying that "I had admitted to calling in a prank call." Obviously that statement alone is ridiculous, but I'll move on.

Yesterday, we and everyone else, witnessed a Visitor throw an object AT an Animal Resident. For this action, the man received a "warning."

So, to sum up, we report misbehavior and get our Memberships revoked, our names slandered and our reputations at a place we loved ruined, BUT someone actually assaults an Animal Resident verbally and with intent to do physical harm, and they get a warning? Was this offender asked if he was a Member? If he was, would his Membership have been revoked? The answer is a BIG FAT NO!

The way the San Francisco Zoo is being run, is becoming in my opinion, a bigger joke by the Visit. I commend them on one thing of recent, giving the Sea Lions Henry and Silent Knight forever homes. With that I have to say, if this City expects to have a Zoo for these Seals to live at forever, there needs to be a serious restructuring in Management at the San Francisco Zoo, because the current Team appears to be ruining what could be the best place in the City.

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