Business As Usual For Zoo Director

Director Tanya Peterson continues to go about her business in the same way she has for the last seventeen years.  Her self-importance is non-wavering, showing her selfishness to remain in position.  She knows no one who cares about Our Zoo wants her there, and she doesn't care.  She's NEVER cared.  She's never cared about what's best for Our Zoo, and certainly not what's best for Our Zoo's Animals.  She was allegedly overheard saying, I don't care about the Animals.  

It's Sad.  It's Disgusting.  It's supported by the San Francisco Zoological Society Board.  It's allowed by The City, it's governing Department, RecPark and it's top Authority, Mayor Daniel Lurie.

I hadn't planned to post again until there was movement on a change in Management, or Madagascar was finished and I could finally fully complain about that shit-show.   

Last weekend presented an unusual vibe.  I was in for three days, and barely thought of Zoo issues.  Seriously, what more is there to think about?  I've thought.  I've reacted.  I've acted.  What more is there when not one person with Authority cares? 

I started this post and two others Wednesday, with the plan to post that day and the others Thursday, and Friday.  Be done and have another Zoo worry-free weekend.  I obviously didn't get that far, but it's fine.  

I no longer get worked-up, face pulsating, and body shaking with anxiety, over Zoo stuff.  After the Vote that resulted in Tanya Peterson remaining in position as Director, one Keeper expressed being "Mad".  I agree, Mad is the underlying feeling, but I think it's more Sad. I responded back that I wasn't Mad, which comprises a range of feelings, but I'm Frustrated and Disappointed.  I'm Disgusted and Disturbed.  I'm also extremely tired. 

This post was born out of my Zoo visits Monday and Tuesday.  I walk at the Zoo multiple times a week to get my exercise in, while being able to visit the Animal Friends I'm endeared to. The Zoo is still my happy place, even though there is so much about it that makes me unhappy.  I walk around and frown at the visual waste of money by Tanya Peterson on far too many things, over far too many years.  I fantasize about reversing all those wastes, fails in enclosure designs, and unnecessary wants that have littered the Zoo's landscape.  Unfortunately the list of damage keeps growing.  That said, the fantasy does include many doable improvements that could happen with just a change in management.  I can still see it.  Our Zoo reclaiming it's beauty out of the rubble left in Tanya's wake.   If only she were gone from Our Zoo.

Nothing says I don't give a shit, like being absent during the storm.  With all that's been going on, one would think being present would be a priority.  The Zoo has never been a Peterson priority.  Business as usual.  Tanya is allegedly on a trip.  Some aren't sure where, rumor is Africa.   Is she on a personally funded vacation, or a vacation that the Zoo is funding for her and who knows who else, under the guise of some work related excursion?  

Peterson recently held what some called a "secret" Fundraiser for Pandas, under the guise of full Asian Conservation, using the Orangutans in name, while keeping them housed on concrete islands, in an ancient enclosure, their upgrade from living in caged tubes.

She continues to create illusions of her greatness and care for Our Animals and Our Zoo.  Supported by the Zoological Society Board, friends of hers who likewise lack greatness and caring for Our Animals and Our Zoo, and pulling the wool over the eyes of those who don't know better, because they are too simple minded to seek and understand the Needs of Our Animals and Our Zoo due to Director Tanya Peterson's mass management fails.

The cycle of mismanagement continues, not like nothing has changed, but because nothing has changed.  And that's because she has been allowed to by what's left of the Society Board, the cowards at the Recreation and Park Department, and the avoidance of The City's Mayor.

Apparently no one with Authority will ever make any changes.  It's an easy fix to give our Zoo a fresh start.  Whether these entities are afraid, lazy or just don't care, it all comes down to them letting down not only Our Zoo as the historical jewel it's been to so many Natives lives, in addition to a visitor destination, but most importantly Our Zoo as an Animal Care Facility.  It is literally a place that takes care of Live Beings. 

The non-Human Residents of Our Zoo may not be homeless drug addicts living downtown, but they and their home, deserve equal thought and respect from The Mayor.

As the top Authority of Our City Owned Zoo, it's Shameful that San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, still remains silent.  It says alot about him.  

This week the Mayor posted that he had introduced legislation that will transform an area downtown... I left a comment in response which I'll reiterate here.  

Mayor Lurie - When are you going to help transform Our Zoo by asserting your Authority over the Zoological Society and Remove Tanya Peterson as Director of Our Zoo?

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