http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/ News, events and restaurant guide for Seattle's Ballard neighborhood Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12844 NoraBell Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:55:34 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12844 Too right. Whatever you think of zoos (and I'm not a big fan of them), this does give people a chance to look an animal like this in the eye and get a better connection to it. This one just happens to be very cutie pie. Too right. Whatever you think of zoos (and I'm not a big fan of them), this does give people a chance to look an animal like this in the eye and get a better connection to it. This one just happens to be very cutie pie.

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12843 fred117 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:59:05 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12843 It always amazes me to think I live so close to grizzly bears, lions and animals such as these snow leopards. Having the Zoo in our neighborhood is a great educational resource and for us and our children. It always amazes me to think I live so close to grizzly bears, lions and animals such as these snow leopards. Having the Zoo in our neighborhood is a great educational resource and for us and our children.

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12842 Silver Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:37:40 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12842 What a gorgeous creature! I'm glad that there are now two more of them in the world. What a gorgeous creature! I'm glad that there are now two more of them in the world.

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12841 Judy Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:49:03 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12841 Kem you can't give some credit for zoos' education and preservation efforts? Now circuses and Vegas acts - that's really bad! Kem you can't give some credit for zoos' education and preservation efforts? Now circuses and Vegas acts – that's really bad!

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12840 kem66 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:15:42 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12840 I look into the leopard's eyes and see an unfathomable sadness, never to know the Himalayan snow; to be free. Read "The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen. 'Nuff said! I look into the leopard's eyes and see an unfathomable sadness, never to know the Himalayan snow; to be free. Read “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen. 'Nuff said!

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12839 kem66 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:04:59 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12839 Come on.. you can't be that naive. Zoos exist primarily to enrich the principals. Conservation, meaningful conservation, will only occur in the affected environments, not in the artificial environment of the zoos. Animals, exist a components of a system of wonderful and unknowable complexity, not as isolated entities in the sterility of a zoo enclosure. Come on.. you can't be that naive. Zoos exist primarily to enrich the principals. Conservation, meaningful conservation, will only occur in the affected environments, not in the artificial environment of the zoos. Animals, exist a components of a system of wonderful and unknowable complexity, not as isolated entities in the sterility of a zoo enclosure.

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12838 kem66 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:59:40 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12838 Re. Elephant exploitation. Follow the money...as always. Re. Elephant exploitation. Follow the money…as always.

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12837 mrock Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:49:31 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12837 Referring to a recognized world-class facility for preservation and education? Really? Referring to a recognized world-class facility for preservation and education? Really?

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2009/07/10/snow-leopard-cubs-get-six-week-check-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12836 kem66 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:25:21 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=7582#comment-12836 What a shame that a wonderful animal is relegated to the demeaning role as an attraction in a circus. Zoos in general and Woodland park in particular are abominations that only exploit wildlife for profit. Let the discussion ensue!! What a shame that a wonderful animal is relegated to the demeaning role as an attraction in a circus. Zoos in general and Woodland park in particular are abominations that only exploit wildlife for profit. Let the discussion ensue!!

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