Animals rescued from Safari Park Zoo in Albania

Brut America

These animals suffered years of torture at Albania's "zoo from hell". But that was until this NGO went over there to rescue them.   Brut followed FOUR PAWS International on their mission.

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00:00I would go with one car in, get the animals and either we can park here so the police

00:17can have an eye on the animals or we just queue up here.

00:42It's one of the worst places I've ever seen.

00:44The enclosure where Lenzi was living all his life, it's absolutely horrific.

00:51It's something like a chamber of horror and nobody, regardless of the species, should

00:58have to go through that.

01:11According to the documentations they have, everything is clear and the zoo should be

01:17closed permanently today.

01:52The owner just came and she's very aggressive, she's shouting.

01:55We do not know now how we will continue because the police is sitting outside, we are alone

01:59inside, so we have to see how we get protected.

02:10Honestly the biggest risk are the people with it usually.

02:15The owner is intervening or whatever, trying to block us and at the moment I'm just preparing

02:21the anesthesia for the zebra and the lion, we're going to do it at the same time.

02:27We obviously have to rush a bit, time is running out, the owner is already here and we don't

02:31want to get bothered by him, so we're going to do it as fast as possible.

02:37I just darted the zebra, injected the anesthetics, it's now going to take some time to go down.

02:44As soon as it's down I'm going to go inside, put the catheter in and just stabilize it

02:49as far as I can.

03:15Louder.

03:27Don't worry, it's okay.

03:29Let's put it in one of our cars.

03:41Turn him on the back.

03:44We have him.

03:52That was the last one.

03:56It's been a tough day, but we managed to confiscate all the animals, they're all safe in their

04:02boxes now.

04:03I mean of course transport is also a high risk, especially for the ungulates, they're

04:08very stressed, stressful and you know, honestly, I will be relieved in a couple of days when

04:15everything is well.

04:38The problem is that animals usually can't speak for themselves and especially exotic

04:48animals are commonly kept in captivity as a status symbol or because they're just, I

04:52mean they're beautiful, but not many people actually know what they need and this is the

05:01problem, so they're kept under horrible conditions.

05:04If we keep them in captivity, then at least under conditions that are species appropriate.

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