Geez, you people are so sensitive. Those folks that are complaining better be a vegan cause if not you are just a big hypocrite.

I bet they feed him M&Ms.

It is a not a baby, but a 3y/o female kangaroo (females are much smaller than males).

We'd need the whole story before whipping out the cruelty charge. If this is an orphaned roo that's being hand-raised (and therefore cannot be returned to the wild) and Google's willing to drop a few grand to have it brought around the office for an hour or so, and that few grand helps pay for feed, veterinary bills, etc. that's a reasonably acceptable trade-off.

If a couple of drunken yobbos from Google Australia went to the outback, lured him into a duffel bag, threw him into the overhead bin, flew to the New York office and said "Looky what we got! A giant mouse!" then yeah, that'd be cruel.

Oh, sure. It probably went something like this:

Bob: Hey, Ted, you know what I was thinking?

Ted: [In the middle of maintaining the Beautiful Natural Kangaroo Environment.] What, Bob?

Bob: Here we are, keeping this orphaned kangaroo here as best we can, and it's expensive. I heard that Google is having a take-your-kids-to-work day -- maybe we could bring Roberta over there for a few hours, make us a few thousand dollars. I know she wouldn't be crazy about it, but it would just be for a few hours.

Ted: Hmm, we really could use the money. Okay, I'm game, as long as we don't make a habit of it. Do we even have a travel cage?

'Rational', my ass.

Um, presumably Google could "could drop a few grand" and not have it brought to the office. I don't see how this is not cruel. Your first scenario just makes it LESS cruel than the second scenario. But I could think of any number of scenarios that would be crueler than any given cruel scenario.

First rational comment I've seen. Props.

Let's just agree that this makes no sense. At all.

Maybe your definition of "cage" is different than mine, but this looks more like a "pen" considering there's no top. And it's not that small...

Now if you want to make a point about animals being trotted around for our amusement, fine, but it doesn't look particularly cruel. I think there's probably something to say for a limit of how many people can be in the room at one time, though, as the lil' guy goes appear a bit confused.

and I'm sure he was transported over there in a "pen" rather than a cage, too.

Yummy, tastes just like rabbit.

Bad move, Google. Bad move.

CRUEL CRUEL CRUEL

who cares? it's an overgrown rat

outrage! how could it be bring your unit to work day AND earth day!?

but seriously wtf is wrong with whoever made this decision

LET THEM BOX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_FVD0BR2Mc

This is so cruel!!

I thought Google's motive was Don't be evil, this is pretty evil. what a bunch of nasty fucks

I couldn't agree more. Stupid fucks.

I think google's motive is more "don't be cruel while we slowly acquire the rights to everything on the internet"