http://www.find-croatia.com/blog/zoo-hotel-a-new-hotel-in-osijek/ About Travel to Croatia Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:29:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.find-croatia.com/blog/zoo-hotel-a-new-hotel-in-osijek/#comment-27366 visitor2 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:20:57 +0000 http://www.find-croatia.com/blog/zoo-hotel-a-new-hotel-in-osijek/#comment-27366 I visited Osijek on 04.05.2008 with some Croat friends who thought it would be nice to see the "new" Zoo. The hotel was nice if slightly odd - who in this day and age has zebra/leopard/tiger immitation skins chair covers? The Zoo itself was horrific; some four or five enclousers were reasonable size but most of them were tiny with animals crowded inside. They had no space, suroundings were devoid of any interest, they paced up and down the edge of the cage ( classic sign of stress ) and almost none had any water. The aligators were probably in the most awful conditions I have ever encountered. As for the huge python - it is impossible to describe. There were no staff around - during our time there we did not see one member of staff - and the visitors kept throwing bits of food to the animals. How stupid is that?! When did you last see llamas eat salty chips in the wild? . And they had no water to help with all that salt. One totally stupid father kept pushing his two year old girls hand into the encloser to feed llamas - I was astounded. Lions enclouser had a very insecure looking second rate wire fence which looked as if at one time it was cut open and just tied back with a bit of thinish wiring. Horrific... I visited Osijek on 04.05.2008 with some Croat friends who thought it would be nice to see the “new” Zoo. The hotel was nice if slightly odd - who in this day and age has zebra/leopard/tiger immitation skins chair covers?
The Zoo itself was horrific; some four or five enclousers were reasonable size but most of them were tiny with animals crowded inside. They had no space, suroundings were devoid of any interest, they paced up and down the edge of the cage ( classic sign of stress ) and almost none had any water. The aligators were probably in the most awful conditions I have ever encountered. As for the huge python - it is impossible to describe.
There were no staff around - during our time there we did not see one member of staff - and the visitors kept throwing bits of food to the animals. How stupid is that?! When did you last see llamas eat salty chips in the wild? . And they had no water to help with all that salt.
One totally stupid father kept pushing his two year old girls hand into the encloser to feed llamas - I was astounded.
Lions enclouser had a very insecure looking second rate wire fence which looked as if at one time it was cut open and just tied back with a bit of thinish wiring.
Horrific…

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