Denmark's Aalborg Zoo defended a program asking for pet donations to feed predators as natural behavior, while PETA called the initiative unnatural and unnecessary.

A zoo in Denmark wants you to give its lazy carnivores free handouts in the form of your small, unwanted pets. "If you have a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us,

Aalborg Zoo, located in Aalborg, Denmark, has asked for people who no longer want their "smaller pets" to donate them to the zoo so the animals can be eaten by its predators.

A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The Aalborg Zoo wrote in a Facebook post that it is trying to “imitate the natural food chain of the animals”.

The Aalborg Zoo in northern Denmark is facing backlash after requesting pet owners to donate unwanted animals, such as guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens, and even small horses, to feed their carnivorous predators.