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Captive Animals

When you hold animals captive you are taking them from their families. You are taking them from their home and putting them in a unnatural habitat.It is just mean to the animals. In zoo’s they are abused and are not treated very well so they do not live very long and they are forced to breed. Animals are also like humans, we need food, water and good living quarters. Also we sometimes need people to take care of us when we are sick. Sometimes at zoo’s they are still forces to do tricks even if they need lots of rest. Nobody should force animals to preform, thats why animals should not be held captive.

When you take an animal from their home they might get home sick so they don’t preform or act like their normal selfs. People wont want to see a boring animal when they can go to a different place or watch a movie of happier animals. Some animals that may be new to a zoo may carry a sickness that other animals are not immune to so the other animals will get sick. I know i wouldn’t like to be stuck in a cage or forced to preform in a circus my entire life, know wonder so many animals in captivity die each year. Holding animals captive is bad.

Animals should not be held captive. They are taken from their home by humans everyday. Captive animals don’t live very long in a zoo or a circus. Some places that hold animals captive are marine parks, zoo’s, and possibly tourist attractions that have dolphin rides or where you could see an animal that you have never seen before. They have Sea World where marine animals do tricks and preform mostly every day. These are just some of the places that keep animals and make them preform for the publics entertainment.

Captive born animals are more venerable to infections and may die within a few months. If they survive they may be sold to a zoo or transferred to different zoo’s. They will be abused by being forced to do tricks and if the don’t obey they might be hit by a whip or a sharp mettle stick, bull hooks, and mettle rods. Some wild animals at zoo’s get mad and in San Diego, California a animal killed 3 people and injured 16 in the past 10 years. Circus abuse animals with pain tools including: whips, sharp hooks, mussels, bull hooks, and electric mettle rods if they don’t obey the command.

Circuses hurt animals. When they practice and they do the trick wrong they may be whipped because they messed up. Circus can never meet an animals natural, physical, emotional, social, and behavioral needs since they are on the move and usually never in a town for very long. When an animal dies they usually just stop and burry it where ever they are. Even if it’s in a ditch along the road. An animals well-fare can never be met in a circus because temporary accommodation and exposure to unnatural situations during a performance is unnatural and therefore their needs cannot be met.

In zoo’s animals are more likely to die. The animals cage might be filled with deadly toxins from mixing up cleaning chemicals with another chemicals. The pool liner that marine animals swim in is toxic when they chew the edge of the pool. When different animals come into contact with other animals that may have a disease and they might get that disease. Anybody would agree that holding animals captive is bad.

How would you feel if you were an animal that had to spend their whole life in a cage or being a preforming circus animal? Running a zoo is expensive. It will cost you thousands if not more to pay for food, vet bills, new cages, and anything else that an animal might need. Medicine can be expensive and some animals parks treat the sick animals with medicine from past animals that had the same thing. Zoo’s will try to save money anywhere they can so they might take left over food from a cafeteria or lunches that some people have not finished so they can save the food because it would cost money to feed that animal a rare fruit that they have to import from a far away country or a rare veggie. So the food an animal might get to eat might be crap.

Some zoo’s are good zoos. If animals welfare is at the top of their list and they aren't just in it to make money or a profit it is a good zoo because they care about the animals being healthy. Some zoo’s will try to re-create an animals natural habitat as best as they can but it will never be home for an animal if they were taken from the wild. Also some zoo’s breed the endangered animals so their population will go up, but more than likely they will die within the first few days or months. A no brainer is taking animals to the vet not just trying to save money and treat them themselves. Some zoo’s can be good zoo’s but some can be bad.

Zoo’s hurt animals, if you want to help them you can stop going to zoo’s that will force the zoo to do something about the animals and possibly send them back into the wild to their home. Also stop going to circus’s it will force it out of your town and they will go somewhere else and eventually nobody will go to the zoo they are also forced so get rid of the animals so they will not be abused. It will help the animals a lot. Holding animals captive is cruel.