Awwww, how sad!

Jill

Oh poor things. That's tragic. I wonder how the straw bales caught fire.?
Alison

Thanks for the warning, I won't look.  I get terrible nightmares and have to
be really careful about viewing things like this, either on TV or on the
internet as it just makes them worse.
Mention has already been made about a fire.  I'll have to try and forget all
about it as I won't sleep otherwise.

Tweed

_Very_ upsetting. :-(

I am so sorry to read about the loss of the mama and baby giraffes! :o(

It's not only a tragedy in its own right, but it brings back terrible
memories of a devastating fire that happened at the Philadelphia Zoo just
over ten years ago. We lost all our gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons (to
smoke inhalation, so at least they didn't suffer) when an electrical fire
struck the primate house.

I can't even begin to describe how I cried upon hearing that news. I'm
from Philadelphia and had seen those particular animals on multiple
occasions. I stitll have video that I took of them from a visit I'd made
to the Zoo a year or two before.
Somewhere on the original rec.pets.cats, there's a thread I started about
it.

The Philadelohia Zoo brought grief counsellors in for their zookeepers.
The zoo that's lost the giraffes should probably do the same.

My heart truly goes out to anyone who's suffered loss in this tragedy,
whether they worked at the zoo or were just visitors who remember the
giraffes fondly. What a heartwrenching accident.

I hope they determine what caused the fire, so that EVERY zoo can take
precautions to prevent it from ever happening again.

Donna