I took my three-year-old daughter to see a lion dissected and she roared with delight
by Richard Orange in Odense from on (#QSVG)
In Denmark, letting a child see zoo animals being cut up is normal - what can it teach a young child?
My three-year-old daughter is transfixed by a bandage tied around the lion's rear shin, there to hide the spot where the zoo has cut away a strip of fur from the ligaments in advance.
"It's got a big plaster," she says over and over again. "Little lion, little lion. It's got a big plaster." She likes plasters, Eira. They've been an obsession ever since she gashed her forehead a year ago and sported one for several weeks.
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