The City of Ogden, Utah on Monday politely took back the space which formerly hosted a veterinary non-profit’s rehab center for living animals to make space for a neighboring “dinosaur park” to build a new “hatchery” to design and build new models of the extinct animals, the Deseret News reports.
Or maybe not so politely since it was kind of a “get the fuck out now” kind of situation, according to DaLyn Marthaler, executive director of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah, who says the center’s new home isn’t quite ready yet, but the city’s George F Eccles Dinosaur Park booted them anyway to make room for the new “Hatchery” where they’re going to build new fake dinosaurs.
“I cringe because I don’t want to know… It’s just a bad situation,” Marthaler said, estimating that her organization’s new home will only have 40 percent of the capacity even when the new premises is fully online and she’ll need to raise at least $3 million to care for injured owls, mammals, and raptors.
Eccles Dino Park board chair Shane Lyon is thinking about raptors too. “It’s something that’s going to help us take it to the next level,” Lyon said. “We don’t want to get stagnant. That’s the worst thing we could do,” absolutely thrilled about adding new artificial models of antediluvian reptiles to his lineup.