keikoisbetterthanyou: Keto being forced to undergo a stressful and unnecessary endoscopy procedureIn
keikoisbetterthanyou: Keto being forced to undergo a stressful and unnecessary endoscopy procedureIn 2006 Keto was, along with three other juvenile orcas belonging to Seaworld, shipped to the Spanish zoo Loro Parque on a breeding loan. A brand new stadium with three pools were build for the orcas to live in. Seaworld instructed Loro Parque in what paint to use on the pools, but Loro Parque decided they’d rather save some money and instead went on to buy a cheaper brand of paint which they painted the pools with. Seaworld had warned them that the orcas will chew off and eat the cheap paint and sure enough, that is just what Keto and the three other orcas did.The paint is extremely toxic and it could kill Keto and the other orcas if they had ingested it. To find out if they had the orcas had to undergo endoscopy procedures where they have a tube with a camera inserted through their throat into their stomach to see the stomach contents. As the gifs clearly show Keto did not care for the procedure. Keto has been beached and is completely out of the water. Not only is his own weight crushing his organs, he has several trainers weight added to that as they desperately try to keep him under control. Keto does not understand what this procedure is or why it’s being done to him. He reacts with panic and tries to shake the trainers off in an attempt to stop the situation. The trainers has to use extreme force and desperate means to get this procedure done and this increases Keto’s levels of stress and panic that he’s already feeling.Here’s why I call this procedure unnecessary: Had Loro Parque simply followed instructions on what paint to use Keto would’ve been spared this horrific ordeal and trauma. But money was more important to Loro Parque than Keto’s wellbeing ever was. But Keto isn’t owned by Loro Parque, he is owned by Seaworld. One would think that after this disaster and blatant disregard of Keto’s safety and health Seaworld would’ve taken him and their three other orcas away from Loro Parque and brought them back home to Seaworld. But Seaworld didn’t because just like Loro Parque they too care more about the money they’re making on this deal than they do about Keto. To this day Keto still remains at Loro Parque where he and the other, now 5, orcas are exposed to ignorance and inexperience from the staff hired to care for them. Out of the currently hired orca trainers at Loro Parque only one of them has had previous experience in working with captive orcas. Alexis Martinez, the trainer lying across Keto’s back in the first gif, was later killed by Keto on Christmas eve in 2009. Seaworld has never publically commented on the killing of Alexis by one of their orcas, nor have they ever expressed regret that yet another human being was killed as a direct result of orca captivity. Seaworld does NOT care. -- source link