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These characters have appeared for the second time in recent days in Grūtas Park.
Environmentalists saluting the court and a restless vet reading instructions for a sleeping rifle were here for the first time last week.
They said they wanted to verify that several park residents, the cougar and the three monkeys, were properly marked.
Check or take out?
However, it soon became clear that the true inventor of this inspection, the head of the Lithuanian Organization for the Protection and Protection of Animals (CAT), Brigita Kymantaitė, remained behind the gates of Grūtas park.
She was accompanied by four Italians from the international organization Salviamo gli Orsi della Luna (Save the Moon Bears).
The owners of Grūtas Park have suspected that immediately after the inspection it may be decided to take the beast, since this organization collects sacrifices in several countries, in their opinion, to rescue wild animals, mostly bears, living in poor conditions.
All the beasts hid
But to control the monkeys, you first had to put them to sleep.
Although the vet who came to Grūtas Park brought a gun to put the animals to sleep, the actual task surprised him considerably. The man admitted that he had had to sleep only cows and oxen, so he began to leaf through the instructions on the rifle and search for the dose of medicine necessary to put the monkey to sleep.
However, there were no monkeys on the producer list. There were no monkeys in themselves, as if he felt that unexpected guests had arrived because of them, all the Grūtas Park pets gathered in his hut and hid, hid and cougars.
I shoot two shots
Animal keepers who showed up Thursday fired two shots at the cougar, but it soon became clear that the beast’s sleep dose was too high.
On Friday, the Grūtas Park hosts found the pet dead.
Bought from a zoo
Birutė Malinauskaitė-Bark, Grūtas park manager, stated that he has all the necessary documents for the animals he has and that the pets are properly marked.
A decade ago, the owners of Grūtas Park at the Kaunas Zoo acquired a pair of baboon monkeys.
The pets gave birth to a chick.
“I don’t know what the inspections will end with if it turns out that there are no infractions. And who would be responsible if some of the monkeys that fell asleep during the inspection had not woken up? A doctor who has no contract? ”- B. Malinauskaitė-Bark, the inspectors who arrived without properly trained specialists, was shocked.
The bear died in Ireland
Representatives of the Lithuanian Organization for the Protection and Rights of Animals, together with foreigners, in the winter of 2019 took three bear cubs from Grūtas Park.
B.Malinauskaitė-Bark stated that they then organized all the documents of their pets themselves and signed a deed of donation from the bears.
“The Belgians who came to pick them up said they had 38 bears, but there were only 8 left.
We looked at each other strangely, but we hit the animals, ”recalls B. Malinauskaitė-Bark.
However, the CAT soon circulated a report that the bears had been confiscated and taken to a safer location.
Although the Grūtas Park pets were transported to Belgium, a year later Irish media reported that one of the bears brought to Grūtas Park had died in the country.
The owner of the animal reserve explained that the bear Aurnia had been put to sleep to remove her uncomfortable teeth, but had stopped breathing.
Veterinarians have not been able to revive him.
Investigation turned detective
Following the incident, the Department of the Environment (AAD) was quick to report that an investigation had been launched into the cause of the cougar’s death, but that he had become a true detective.
The owners of Grūtas Park, who reported the dead cougar to the department, decided on Friday to bring his body for examination by specialists at the LSMU Veterinary Academy in Kaunas. Environmentalists were also offered to go together, but specialists who had always tried to contact someone in Vilnius refused to do so.
In addition, agents from the AAD Alytus Wildlife Protection Inspectorate tried to prevent the dead animal from being brought to Kaunas. Police have been told that Hesona, the owner of Grūtas Park, may be transporting an animal illegally and the driver may be intoxicated. Puma’s death was finally brought to the professionals.
The deceased cougar lived in Grūtas Park for seven years.
During the unscheduled inspection carried out in Grūtas Park by specialists from the AAD and the Lithuanian Zoo, the animals were put to sleep by specialists from the Lithuanian Zoo.
According to the AAD, the purpose of the inspection was to determine if the cougar and 3 bitter baboons in the company’s aviaries were marked with microchips in accordance with the procedure established by legal acts.
