Pernille Sohl: Mother gives her daughter’s pony to a zoo to be eaten by lions, has ‘no regrets’

When a mother decided to send her daughter’s pony to a nearby zoo to be fed on by predators, she did not anticipate global backlash.

Pernille Sohl and her then 13-year-old daughter, Angelina Rasmussen, faced a tough time in 2020 when their pony’s health took a turn for the worst.

Chicago 57 was the family’s sports pony and had participated in competitions all over their home country, Denmark.

But it came time for Chicago “to leave”, and that is when Ms Sohl spoke with Angelina about the options they could take.

“[Angelina] had previously watched one of my horses being taken to be euthanized, and it was a bad experience for her. She said that this time she wanted to follow the food chain. She wanted Chicago 57 to benefit other animals,” Ms Sohl told Avisen Danmark .

Chicago 57 was no