{"id":1281,"date":"2018-04-02T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2018\/04\/02\/chinese-zoo-exposed-for-feed-live-puppies-to-pythons\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T16:20:02","slug":"chinese-zoo-exposed-for-feed-live-puppies-to-pythons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-zoo-exposed-for-feed-live-puppies-to-pythons\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Zoo Exposed for Feed Live Puppies to Pythons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Recently, visitors to a park in Henan <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/province\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">province<\/a> were surprised after walking into a snake house and finding that the pythons there were being fed live puppies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FudQa1Wx-WkaamnJX000s12hIDEq?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"Zoo1.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"327\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Image: Medium<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Recently, visitors to a park in Henan province were <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/surprised\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surprised<\/a> after walking into a snake house and finding that the pythons there were being fed live puppies.<\/p>\n<p>Horrified by what they saw, the visitors\u00a0took video\u00a0of the python cages and uploaded the footage online for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>In one clip, a python has completely encircled the body of a tiny white puppy\u200a\u2014\u200awhich is either sleeping or has already had the life squeezed out of it.<\/p>\n<p>In another clip, a brown puppy sits on the floor of the cage near to a python\u2019s tub, mewing sadly and awaiting its fate.<\/p>\n<p>A park employee told reporters that the small zoo in the park was privately owned and run, and that its operations had nothing to do with the park itself.<\/p>\n<p>However, the worker did add that zoo had stopped its practice of feeding puppies to pythons.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what the pythons are now eating, presumably\u00a0slow lorises\u00a0and\u00a0baby pigs.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch\u00a0clips\u00a0from the python cages below:<\/p>\n<p>Last year, visitors to a zoo in Changsha watched in horror as\u00a0a live donkey was fed to hungry tigers. The zoo later explained that the donkey had been dumped in the tiger pit\u00a0as an act of revenge by a disgruntled share holder.<\/p>\n<p>In memory of that unfortunate creature, the zoo then erected a \u201cMonument of the Unknown Donkey\u201d outside of the tiger enclosure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fmxi4Ih9RApxgiw1Sb_IUAWLXP6v?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"Zoo3.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Image: Medium<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Medium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, visitors to a park in Henan province were surprised after walking into a snake house and finding that the pythons there were being fed live puppies. 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