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PETA continues its fight against Waccatee Zoo with a holiday twist
PETA continues its fight against Waccatee Zoo with a holiday twist By WMBF News Staff | December 16, 2020 at 6:51 AM EST - Updated December 16 at 6:51 AM
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) â The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is continuing its fight to shut down a Myrtle Beach zoo they call the âworst roadside zoo in the United States.â
The group has now added a holiday twist. According to a press release, PETA sent the Waccatee Zoo 11 bags of coal.
Members of the organization said each has the name, picture and stories of the animals they say are suffering at the facility.
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Myrtle Beach, S.C. – This morning, to push the Waccatee Zoo to release the animals held there in substandard conditions to reputable facilities, PETA has sent a fitting Christmas gift to the “Worst Roadside Zoo in America”: 11 bags of coal, each with the names, photographs, and stories of animals suffering there. These include the ailing tiger Lila, and the message about her reads, “Tigers’ unique coat patterns offer them excellent camouflage, but Lila no longer looks like a tiger. She’s almost completely bald and spends her days pacing in a deplorable cage.”
“As families celebrate the holidays, the animals at Waccatee Zoo will be staring out of dismal, barren cages as usual suffering and sick with misery,” says PETA Foundation Associate Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Michelle Sinnott. “PETA is calling on the Waccatee Zoo to give Lila the tiger and all the other animals there the best Christmas present ever by sending them t