Spring River Zoo’s empty promises leave animals to suffer, but you can help!

Spring River Park and Zoo, a roadside zoo run by Roswell, New Mexico, keeps bears in a dilapidated concrete pit and other animals in cramped cages. He claimed to be making improvements, but nothing meaningful was done.

For years, the Sierra and Ursula bears have been stuck in this concrete pit, which to them looks like a dungeon straight from the Middle Ages. The Spring River Zoo is reportedly working to expand the pit, but the concrete substrate used still causes and exacerbates physical ailments in bears, including painful and debilitating arthritis.

The Spring River Zoo also allowed an underweight long-horned bull to stumble over its likely painful overgrown hooves for months because it was unable to obtain the necessary equipment for veterinary care and trimming of its hooves. The USDA quoted him twice, but instead of doing what was needed to help this suffering animal, it just got rid of him.

Mountain lions are inherently closed-minded and are agile, expert climbers who roam vast distances over varied terrain, but the mountain lion Bret has been moved to an entirely new aviary that is almost completely barren and prevents him from expressing these normal conditions. basic patterns of behavior.

Animals such as foxes, coatis and lemurs are kept in cramped corn cages. Rather than using its limited resources to make important and necessary improvements to the health and well-being of these animals, Spring River Zoo has acquired more animals, including two beavers. This antiquated roadside zoo did not even have a suitable enclosure for them, leading to the escape of a man who was never found and who could very well be dead.

PETA has repeatedly offered to donate funds to help improve animal welfare if the Spring River Zoo allowed the bears to be transferred to an accredited sanctuary, but it declined, leaving them to suffer in barren, dilapidated aviaries and outdated concrete pits. To lock any animal in a concrete pit is inhuman and is a form of arrogance – a worldview based on human superiority.

Speak today and ask Spring River Zoo to close its concrete pits and cramped cages and allow animals to be transported to respected institutions.