Let’s stop mollycoddling these foreign animals –They demand handouts yet commit violent crimes!

A rhinoceros at the Pittsburgh zoo crushed the tip of a keeper’s thumb as she hand-fed it treats this morning, the zoo’s director said.

“Anybody that has a pet knows that any time you hand-feed an animal treats, occasionally you get little bites,” said zoo CEO Dr. Barbara Baker. “It wasn’t aggressive on the rhino’s part.”

Dr. Baker said the zoo wasn’t releasing the name of the bitten employee, nor would it say which of the zoo’s two rhinos bit the hand that fed it.

“We’re not disclosing that information. We don’t want people to come and in any way disparage the rhino,” Dr. Baker said.

The employee was taken to a local hospital but the injury was not believed to be serious. Initial emergency radio calls said the thumb was amputated, but officials said that wasn’t the case.

“It’s not an animal that carries a lot of infections or anything,” Dr. Baker added.

The incident happened behind-the-scenes shortly after the zoo opened today.