Zoocheck Canada

From Zoocheck's website, the following is their goals:Zoocheck Canada is a national animal welfare charity established in 1984 to promote the interests of wildlife in captivity and in the wild.From a zoo keepers forum, this is Zoocheck's goal:"The Zoo Check programme since 1984 has worked to prevent captive animal suffering and phase out zoos."Not exactly the same thing is it??

But they do have a few hidden agenda's here as well. Zoocheck does not like zoos, they would like to eventually see them all closed and go to a different kind of zoo. My guess would be like a free range zoo or open air type. The small private zoos which Zoocheck calls roadside zoos are especially hated.Zoo report-"Organizations like Zoo Check, CAPS and Born Free are for the most part anti-everything to do with zoos. They advocate the abolishment of keeping wild animals in captivity, and often latch onto small events and blow them up much larger than life in order to sway public opinion.

"Zoocheck is not afraid to get involved in animal and wildlife issues. I see they protest against dog fighting, the seal hunt in Canada, circus's, pet trade and more. They even give Activist Training Workshops or in other words, they train people how to be a animal activists. (like we really need more of those) Why would anyone even want to train more animal rights activists??

Zoocheck quite enjoys playing the mind games that most animal rights extremists play. They will arrive at the zoo unannounced, secretly move about the zoo ignoring any "off limit signs." They will go wherever they want looking for "the dirt" to write about. And they will keep searching till they find something to write in their report. The reports mostly read the same, varying just a little-Filthy, cages are covered in feces, cages are too small, wrong shape, too dark, too light, animals aren't fed properly, animals have no water, no staff present.

Zoocheck's budget in Canada for 2006. They raised about 250.000 thousand dollars.We need to be more careful where our donations are going! Look carefully into the animal rights organizations that you might want to support. Do a good search on the internet. Some of these organizations have good intentions and use the donated money properly in the best interests of the animals. Some may not.

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