Although Sohl did not receive any payment from Aalborg Zoo, she would get a tax rebate. Another woman, Helen Hjortholm Andersen, donated her Shetland pony, Paprika, to Jyllands Park Zoo due to high costs associated with removing a dead animal. She supports the idea of pets benefiting other animals.

A woman says she donated her daughter’s pony to Aalborg Zoo in Denmark to be “gently euthanized” and used as food for captive predators.

The zoo’s post outlined a grim fate for donated animals: they would be “gently euthanized” by trained staff before being served up to the zoo’s meat-eaters. The appeal wasn’t limited to small animals either.