An intruder enters someone’s house, the intruder kidnaps them, rips them from their family and jails them for life. Zoos should be banned because they do not have the right to kidnap the animals and jail them for life even if they are endangered. Stealing the animals from their home for our entertainment, shameful. The crazy thing is we are so entertained by it so much they make $175 million a year (1). The animals and people are equal none have less of an importance we are both living beings. The animals feel the pain inflicted on them too. Animals are mistreated in zoos by being locked up in small enclosures. What happens to them when a natural disaster occurs? Some animals may get loose during a disaster. Wild animals on the street to harm us, people think that’s never going to happen well it did. June 14, 2015, a flood occurred in Tbilisi, Georgia. Not one or five animals got loose but over 30 animals. People think they are cute and cuddly right, no there was a hippo, seven bears, six lions, a jaguar, …show more content…
Food, they are supposed to hunt for it but nope it is given, shelter given and they have no ability to flee from predators (5). They eat and they move in their small enclosure. Just like couch potatoes, this is bad for humans then this has to be bad for the animals. The animals can possibly die from obesity and on the other hand, some zoos starve the animals. Like, when Yemen was fighting a civil war they abandoned their 281 animals. Including twenty lions, twenty-six leopards, crocodiles, monkeys, birds of prey and many other diverse animals. Seventeen animals starved to death including eleven tigers and six rare endangered Arabian leopards. One leopard ate his dead mate. A lion had a bone-deep wound having his bone protrude. The government did not back it up either because it was in active war territories. It is pretty cool how some animal lovers helped out the animals till the war ended
Although many people are hurt and killed from wild animals that are kept as pets. But the animals suffer from hurt they receive from their owner. In paragraph 6 of ,Wild Animals Aren’t Pets, the author talks about how dangerous the wild animals are but also talks about the dangers of the animals being hurt. “This week in Zanesville, it was the animals themselves including 18 rare Bengal tigers, who became innocent victims.” This shows the owners of the rare tigers began abusing their animals. People are not the only ones getting
...he first idea to come to mind would be to prevent their pain, if animals feel pain just as much as humans, it should initiate the same immediate response. If humans choose to let this issue slide, it ultimately brings to light what we as humans truly value, whether we value convenience over humanity and common sense. We need to act now, for the sake of the animals, and for the sake of humanity.
Lets start with zoos, where animals are kept in cages or large enclosures for public viewing. Millions of people visit zoos thinking the animals are happy, when in all reality they are miserable. You can try to replicate the animals enclosure to their natural habitat, but they can never replace their homes. An animals rights organization states, “Animals are often prevented from doing most of the things that are natural and important to them, like running, roaming, flying, climbing, foraging, choosing a partner, and being with others of their own kind,” (PETA). Although, zoos are said to ‘help’ these animals, they really are not, it is more a collection of different animals in order to show off to the audience and gain money off of them. People begin to believe it is okay to keep these wild animals captive and have their lives be controlled by someone else.
Zoo captivity is substandard and inadequate for animals. Zoo animals are deprived of their right as animals they are treated unjustly and unfairly. Animals should not be forced to kept in a cage away from their natural environment and be used as a form of entertainment to humans. The animals also suffer from stress and are driven insane by being trapped behind bars. The zoo is supposed to provide safety to these endangered animals but instead, these zoo animals are put at risk towards a variety of dangers such as vulnerability to diseases and starvation.
Animal cruelty is the abuse or failure to care for an animal. Before the past couple of years, people did not have to worry about how the animals in zoos were treated. For centuries, families have gone to zoos to be educated on the different species of animals. As years have gone by, zoos have become a trending topic of animal cruelty. While zoos do not physically abuse the animals, they have been known to not properly care for them. “According to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), there are over 10,000 zoos worldwide” (Fravel 2). Of these 10,000 zoos, only some of them actually care about their animals. Caring for wild animals is extremely hard because zoos have to recreate the animals’ natural habitat. Zoos believe that they are protecting the animals’, yet; they tend to forget how it affects the animals. In reality, the animals are depressed and bored. These wild animals are being taken out of their natural habitats and are enclosed in small cages and habitats. Wild animals should live in their natural habitats, the wild, not in a zoo for the entertainment of zoo visitors. Therefore, banning zoos will end the horrible cycle of animal cruelty.
The idea of a zoo is a noble idea. The objective of the zoo is to be a sanctuary where animals live in safety from dangers such as poachers and diseases. This wildlife refuge prevents animals from going extinct, and new generations of people can learn about these animals and appreciate them. Due to human shortcomings, some zoos are concrete prisons or execution chambers. The video, “Captive Animal Misery in European Zoos”, provided by Born Free Foundation on Youtube.com that is published on 12th January 2012 shows animals in poor living conditions. In that video, there is an elephant in a small metallic enclosure. In fact, there are no plants or anything that would be in the elephant’s habitat. The video continue to show multiple images of animals in concrete pens. These animals paced around the walls in anguish. Not only in Europe, but zoos all over the world bring misery to animals.
...uld abuse animals, there are still laws that deal with animal abuse. The laws for animal abuse should be and need to be taken in to greater deliberation and when considered they need to be used and respected properly. Abuse is only one thing but people can help with stopping this crime by just not perpetrating the crime and showing what the right way to treat animals is. Animal abuse is all around the world and every time an animal is hurt who is to really blame? So when looking at animal abuse in different ways it should always be taken seriously and is always wrong. Let us be the dominant and powerful human beings of this world, but sacrificing the life of hundreds to save one is just not right. There are lots of other ways. Killing, no matter who it is, is horrible. So let us stop this madness called animal abuse and contribute to a much better future for us all.
Their lives have been intentionally and carelessly lost in many grisly ways including being engulfed in flames. Not only is this terrible for animals that do not survive and die in such horrible ways, but many animals who survive can suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a similar or identical way to humans. This emotional impact on an animal's life as well as the physical impact makes the use of animals as instruments of war inhumane and
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People believe that because an animal is an animal and not a human, that they do not have feelings and can’t feel the pain that is being inflicted among them. When an animal is being abused, the person does not believe that they are actually hurting the animal when they hit and starve them, or when they keep an animal locked in a small cage. They think that when they abuse an animal, it is right and there is nothing wrong with it.
middle of paper ... ... Freedom is precious and animals are constantly suffering mentally and physically from the lack of freedom that captivity brings to them. Although many zoos are visited by millions of people annually, they still operate at a loss and have to make budget cuts. Funds that should be used to provide humane conditions for animals are often wasted on cosmetic improvements such as landscaping, refreshment stands, and gift shops in order to draw visitors, leaving the animals behind steel bars and glass trapped in a concrete jungle for no reason without hope of ever being free.
Even though some zoos have an endangered species exhibit with the intention of protecting and rehabilitating animals, many do not do an adequate job of protecting the animals. Zoos have been harmful to the very animals they have sworn to protect. Animals in captivity often suffer from anxiety, boredom and other severe issue related to prolonged confinement. Most animals are unable to thrive in small enclosure with unnatural weather and climates. For example elephants are known to walk as far as 30 miles per day, but the association of Zoos and aquariums only require a space the measures $0 feet by 45 feet, which is about the size of a three car garage, to house these large animals. (peta.org) the drastic difference in the amount of space their allowed ...
The median life span for an African elephant in a zoo is 16.9 years, whereas an African elephant on a nature preserve typically dies of natural cause around 56 years old ("Pitiful," 2017). Researchers are unsure of the exact reason for the lower lifespan, but they believe it to be the lack of space and absence of their natural habitat. Animals that are held in captivity are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them ("PETA," 2017). Many do not understand the immense capacity of danger an animal's life is put in when they are captive. Zoos and animal parks such as, SeaWorld, advertise how they are helping animals, and educating people. But, they are actually doing quite the opposite. Zoos and public aquariums should be banned
The zoo is an unnatural environment that exposes animals to numerous dangers. Diseases often spread between species that would never live together naturally. For example, many Asian elephants have died in US zoos after catching herpes from African elephants. Furthermore, zoo animals are often exposed to chemicals, solvents and other toxic substances. Finally, it is common for visitors to tease and provoke caged animals.
Abandoned dogs, those animals left without supervision, reproduce, breed puppies that are also not wanted and are mistreated and neglected. In conclusion, I hope to have shed some new light on just what animal cruelty is and what it consists of. I hope that with this information, people will be more open to what they see. Hopefully this information will cut down on animal abuse and will make people watch out for mistreatment of animals. I hope that people will think twice before abusing animals.