The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by the same animal rights group.

Situated in Tochigi Prefecture in eastern Japan, Healing Pavilion is an interactive zoo that allows visitors to feed, cuddle, and forge bonds with animals such as pigs, cats, dogs, and sheep.

That's the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled against an animal rights ... to take it," the zoo said. "It seems their real goal is to manipulate people into donating ...

This, however, is no ordinary petting zoo-indeed ... Just how far are people willing to go to become their favorite animal? Get ready to dive into a story that's anything but ordinary.