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March 25, 2011
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  • Mood: Love
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To all my fellow watchers as well as to those just casually having a look at this site, today I would like to ask your help in order to prevent something that I (and most people of Berlin) find extremely wrong!

As you probably heard on the news, Berlin's most popular citizen, polar bear Knut, died of a brain disease a couple of days ago to the great shock of everyone. Now the zoo manager plans to make the pain even worse by having his body stuffed and displayed in a museum, which I think is plain wrong and sick. We followed Knut's development right from when he was only a few days old, we saw him playing as a cub with Thomas Doerflein, his human daddy, and frolicking with youthful Gianna last summer. He was a personality, not just some *dumb* animal, and stuffing him would be the ultimate disrespect imho.

Knut made the zoo a ton of money, now they should just leave him alone and grant him a dignified end. I heard they plan to put a statue of him as a baby bear next to his enclosure, and I very much like that thought. I certainly don't want to see him as an inanimate object with glass eyes in a museum.

If you feel the same, here's a place where you can voice your protest (it's a memory book for Knut put up by the Zoo Berlin), and perhaps it will be your voices that will make them change their mind:

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Thank you very much for your support!

Cheers,
Katzilla


Update March 30, 2011: In a poll organized by a local newspaper, 73% of the people were against it. And yet the zoo manager STILL wants to go ahead with it, saying the decision has already been made. On Saturday, there's going to be a demonstration in front of the zoo entrance.

Update March 31, 2011: Here's an online-petition you can sign if you are against the stuffing of Knut:

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Please help us to prevent this!
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:iconendlessocean591:
~EndlessOcean591 Sep 16, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
NO! Oh, the poor baby!! I live in america and I've been following that bear for,like,EVER! And they want to STUFF HIM??? Real classy. I know they're probably trying to preserve him and his memory, but that's just sick. If they stuff him he's just going end up as somebody's trophy. Oh the poor thing. RIP ,Knut.
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:iconkatzilla13:
Yeah, unfortunately, class and taste are two things that zoo director is definitely lacking. So far, nothing has been done though, so I hope that the protests made them reconsider.
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:iconendlessocean591:
~EndlessOcean591 Sep 17, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
me too. I remember we had a book about him on sale at a book fair at my school, and almost everyone bought it. I can't believe he's gone...
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:iconkatzilla13:
No, it's really sad. Although it's probably better for him. I'm not too fond of our zoo, the one in Leipzig (about 180km from here) is much nicer!
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:iconlucieg-stock:
~LucieG-Stock Sep 16, 2011  Professional General Artist
Any update on this? I went to sign the petition this morning after reading your journal, but it's been many months so maybe it was too late anyway?
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:iconkatzilla13:
I didn't hear about anything yet. Hopefully, they got hesitant when that giant backlash came in and they realized that people were NOT happy with their plans. If I hear any news, I will post them. And thanks so much for signing! :-)
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:iconalbertoguerra:
~albertoguerra Apr 2, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Yes you are right, first you get involved and loved a living being, and then you got a kind of false statue, with wood inside of him, a fetish to make more money, as you said, it makes fells seek to anyone.

Really i remember Knut because when he was a baby, in winter 2006, I´ve been in Berlin!!
But I can´t notice about him because I was just a tourist, and I cant read german news :(
I´ve noticed about Knut some months later, back in home...

Im signing the pledge now, I know, Im a foreigner, but we all are humans and we must demonstrate some respect for those who loved.
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:iconkatzilla13:
Thanks so much! This really concerns all who enjoyed him, and not just us Berliners, so I totally welcome it. Who knows, it might even be the *final* thing to make them reconsider their current course of action, because as far as I have heard, many people from all around the world signed it. :-)
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:iconcaptainmarvyl:
I sent them the message I hope our efforts prove effective. Please keep us informed.
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:iconkatzilla13:
Thanks so much! I will keep you updated. At least, there's a big poll in one of our local newspapers, and I hope that the result will speak to them loud and clearly.
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