Miri Crocodile Farm

OK Kenny & I went here on Sunday thinking it would be fun.

http://www.crocodile.net.my/

It is advertised as a man made animal sanctuary. I would call it more of an animal hell. The crocodiles didn't upset me very much though there were way too many of them per pen & not all of them looked that healthy, but sad as it is they just lay there anyway & didn't seem to require much space nor did they look too intelligent.

There were monkeys in cages so small all they could do was pace back & forth, back & forth and you could see the insanity building in their eyes. They sold bunches of small bananas for 1rm each that you were supposed to feed to them in these cages but I didn't want to participate. The people that did squealed in dismay as the monkeys would try & grab their hand or tear the bananas away from them & then throw them at them. I was secretly, ok per Kenny not so secretly, wishing them the best of luck in whipping some ass!

There were bear cats about 8 to a cage that was 3/4 flooded with water and watching them pace the bars was horrible.

We did have fun when we found the deer like animals that had a nice large pen & seemed happy so we bought lots of bananas & fed them for some time. Funny to watch a deer eat a whole banana, funnier to watch a goose beg for one & run off with it.

We stayed until 11:30 for the crocodile feeding which I expected to be much like the one I had seen on a boat in Louisiana where they threw chicken parts into the water. This was not like that. They had whole chicken carcasses in big black trash cans. We stood on raised rafters over the crocodiles & watched a Malaysian man reach into the trash cans & then toss an entire dead chicken - head, feathers, feet & all - into the pit. Sometimes it would go directly into the crocodiles mouth. Sometimes it would land in the water. And other times, it would hit the concrete with such a loud disturbing THUD that I almost threw up. Kenny was laughing the entire time, not at the show but at me and my facial expression.

It was not quite the zoo experience we were looking for. I'm contacting PETA now....