Anyone else tear up at the pandas going back to China?

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Anonymous wrote:That washingtonian instagram video with them being loaded onto the pandified fedex plane popped up in my feed and packed quite the emotional punch.

So mean of China to first let us adopt their pandas and then taking them back.

We never adopted the pandas.

Dp. The US born pandas grew accustomed to American treats care and environment. Cruel of China to take them back for a whole new environment.

Cruel of you to think they yours

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I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That washingtonian instagram video with them being loaded onto the pandified fedex plane popped up in my feed and packed quite the emotional punch.

So mean of China to first let us adopt their pandas and then taking them back.

We never adopted the pandas.

Dp. The US born pandas grew accustomed to American treats care and environment. Cruel of China to take them back for a whole new environment.

Just before the pandas in Memphis were supposed to be sent back this year one of them died. Some are arguing they were not getting proper care.

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I am glad we are releasing our Chinese hostages. The fewer ties we have to China, the better.

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Anonymous wrote:I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

Pandas would be extinct if humans had not intervened.

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China is our daddy

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Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

Pandas would be extinct if humans had not intervened.

I would rather be extinct than live in a cage.

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Anonymous wrote:I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

Same plus they keep killing all their animals at the national zoo.

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Anonymous wrote:I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

Same plus they keep killing all their animals at the national zoo.

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Anonymous wrote:I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

Maybe when you feel gross and depressing is when you should donate to charities that do things to help wildlife and endangered species. Holding animals in captivity is not the point of zoos. They only display animals to give people what they want, and they try to educate people on the real point of zoos: conservation, breeding, and reintroduction to the wild.

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We travel to China often and can assure you the pandas are fine there. Try visiting. It’s a wonderfully amazing country!

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Anonymous wrote:That washingtonian instagram video with them being loaded onto the pandified fedex plane popped up in my feed and packed quite the emotional punch.

No.

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No, and I'm a pretty sensitive person. I like the pandas, but they were always "on loan." I also have really mixed feelings about zoos and I wonder if the pandas really like being in a zoo, being shuffled back and forth, etc.

Perhaps the my feelings about zoos generally made me feel a lot less ownership/pride in having them here. Whenever visitors want to go see the pandas I take them, and I do like seeing the different animals at the zoo even though I feel bad for them, but it always feels kind of weird that we stand around and gawk at them. They are cute but usually the are just sleeping or eating. I can't imagine crowds of people wandering by my apartment everyday while I slept and ate (and used the bathroom and got medical procedures and played or fought with my family, etc.).

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Anonymous wrote:I tear up more at the thought of pandas and any animal being held in captivity. Especially the national zoo which I find gross and depressing.

Maybe when you feel gross and depressing is when you should donate to charities that do things to help wildlife and endangered species. Holding animals in captivity is not the point of zoos. They only display animals to give people what they want, and they try to educate people on the real point of zoos: conservation, breeding, and reintroduction to the wild.

DP and while I get that, it's still okay to feel bad for animals held in captivity. Even if it's being done to promote conservation and protective measures. Those animals get one life, just like you, and they spend theirs being photographed and ogled and poked and prodded. It's okay to feel bad for them.