No-one wants Yogi ...
NZPA-PA London The last three animals left at a doomed Yorkshire zoo are facing death. Officials of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals believe that it would be kinder to humanely destroy them because they are old and infirm and would find it difficult to settle elsewhere.
During the week-end, homes were offered at registered zoos to a bear and two big cats. But no-one wants Yogi, a 32-year-old blind bear, Dolly, another black bear, aged 28, and Zara, an elderly and blind puma. Magistrates have ordered that the privately-owned Knaresborough Zoo should be closed on May 20. A licence for the zoo was refused on health and safety grounds.
The R.S.P.C.A. and police are anxious about keeping the animals at the zoo much longer after animal rights extremists threatened to release them or explode a the zoo.
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Press, 14 January 1986, Page 6
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