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Animals in Captivity

What do you see when you look into the eyes of an animal? If the animal is being held captive, it’s something along the lines of hatred, unhappiness, and loneliness. An animals eyes has the power to speak a great language. Now imagine the pain and suffering they go through because they are held in captivity. Holding animals in captivity for our amusement isn’t fair for the animals.

Keeping animals in captivity isn’t right, they are stuck in a cage all day. Imagine if you were the animal, you wouldn’t want annoying kids hitting your window of your exhibit. Spanish zoos are locking up bigger animals with smaller animals, causing the animals to become violent. That is just like elementary kids being put in the same classroom as high schoolers. Well, for entertainment, the high schoolers are going to pick on the younger kids. Not only that, the animals can’t express there natural behavior. Therefore, they should not be held captive.

It’s bad for the animals to be in captivity, especially when it’s marine animals. Instead of salt water to swim in, marine animals swim in chlorine water. Dolphins and whales specifically like to dive, they can’t in these small, shallow pools. They float lifelessly on the top of the water. This causes skin problems because the aren’t diving. Animals can also get very sick because of the chlorine, causing early or sudden deaths.

Being in captivity would get very boring and lonely as well. Animals have to see and do the same thing everyday! That’s the boring part. Now, the lonely thing is, these animals have been taken away from their homes and families. That’s really harsh on the animals and they are treated like entertainment slaves! They have to perform the same tricks everyday, now that has to boring! Think back to slavery, we were fighting for human rights. Animals have rights to.

There is all sorts of wildlife! What if all of it vanished with in a blink of an eye? And it all happened because we kept taking them from their natural habit. You might say “Why not just put them back?”. It’s not that easy, once the habitats are gone completely, you can’t bring them back. Then what? Trees start dying, we run out of oxygen and humans will eventually vanish. I am not willing for that to happen.

One argument may be, some people say it’s cheaper to go see animals in zoos than going on a cruise or safari. This is a perspective though. People don’t consider the amount of money it is really expensive to operate a zoo. First you have to consider the amount of money it takes to get the animals from there natural habitat to America. Then there is the food, toys, cleaning supplies, and the zoo itself. Then there is the zoo keepers’ pay checks. Plus the trainers that come to work with the animals and the vets that give the animals checkups. Therefore that “perspective” is not correct.

Think about this, you can make a difference. Go to the meetings,you can be the one person that can change everything. All it takes is one person to make the tiniest difference. Then another person will follow that change, pretty soon everybody is!