We bought a zoo

September 20, 2018 1:04 AM

When the Tweedys bought a zoo in Borth, west Wales, it was a dream come true. But it soon turned into a nightmare of escaped animals, deaths and family feuding
posted by fearfulsymmetry (9 comments total)

Poor animals.
posted by pracowity at 1:52 AM on September 20, 2018

People often say to me they’d love to own a zoo

I struggle with the disconnect from reality that leads from "I love animals" (I get that bit) and "I know! Let's keep animals in enclosures and be 100% responsible for their welfare and ooh! I will also be buying and running a business that I no experience in."

By all means, leave your job in the city and open a B&B in rural France - but please don't buy or start a business that, if it fails, will result in the death or mistreatment of a not inconsiderable number of animals...
posted by jontyjago at 5:16 AM on September 20, 2018 [9 favorites]

I am honestly afraid to read this.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:32 AM on September 20, 2018 [6 favorites]

“It was going to be relaxing,” she recalls.

I'm sorry, what now? You thought running a zoo would be relaxing? I haven't finished tfa yet but these people are delusional.
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:44 AM on September 20, 2018 [7 favorites]

Here's another depressing zoo story with even more horrors of dead animals: ‘You’d come in and think, what’s dead or escaped?’: inside Britain's most controversial zoo
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:08 AM on September 20, 2018 [2 favorites]

Both relieved and disappointed that it wasn't Jeff Tweedy.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:22 AM on September 20, 2018 [1 favorite]

Both relieved and disappointed that it wasn't Jeff Tweedy

Deeply, deeply disappointed it wasn’t Cheryl.
posted by tinkletown at 8:29 AM on September 20, 2018 [1 favorite]

Previously, the Zanesville zoo mess/tragedy/failure :

We Lost A Zoo

Exotic animal debacle in Zanesville
posted by Cris E at 8:29 AM on September 20, 2018 [1 favorite]

The Zanesville disaster still fills me with incandescent rage.
posted by MissySedai at 9:37 AM on September 20, 2018