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ScreamingMeemie

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13. The 12,000 lb carnivore you referenced? Well, he was taken from the wild...

Reply to Aaron8418 (Reply #9)

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 05:38 PM

Nov 2013

from his mother, uninjured, at the age of 2.

They are not "helping" these animals. They captured these animals from their pods in the wild and now breed them--not to save the species, but to entertain people like you. And that is very sad...

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