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Originally Posted by BeyondHuman

We went to Thailand in Feb this year... I was not real impressed. We went to the Phuket Zoo, I still had fun, but I felt really sorry for the animals! We have beautiful zoos here in Australia. I got to hold a snake for the first time... now I have one We also got our photo taken with a tiger... the tiger handler only had one arm and smacked it with his pole to make it look at the camera! I have photos somewhere but they had heaps of baby crocodiles in one enclosure and the adult enclosures had rotten food in them and any water in enclosures was dirty with rubbish in it! We got to feed baby elephants bananas, but the adult ones were chained up and had to watch the babies being fed. They had a couple of albino snakes just in cages that were far too small for such a big snake! I felt sorry for a lot of the animals, but at the same time I enjoyed their shows and liked seeing new animals. One thing I thought was kind of odd - they had a well type enclosure which was full of cane toads! Anyway I enjoyed myself but I know where I would rather be Krystal.

There was an opportunity for me to go to Thailand in the Easter holidays this year. I decided not to go for that very reason. My dad went a few years ago, and brought back footage of people "training" the baby elephants and tigers alike. The baby tigers were beaten with poles, like you said, and the elephants were beaten and stabbed with hooks on poles