Who says animals don’t have rights…

Most people would say this six
week old puppy has emotions.

         Do you have a pet? If so what’s its name what does it like? When most people talk about their animals they would use human emotions to explain them to a friend. It is called anthropomorphizing to give animals human emotions; most of us would believe our pets can feel sadness, anger, or happiness. Why is it that zoo animals are perceived to not have any of these emotions. What is truly the big difference between a house held dog and a zoo captive wolf?  With my personal experience there is not much difference at all. Therefore we do not have the right to say that some animals have emotions while some do not. These animals that are forced to be kept in a zoo can still feel emotions and just like you and me do not want to sit in a cage their whole life. It is actually a common practice for zoo’s to administer antidepressant drugs to their animals especially those that develop ARD “Abnormal Repetitive Disorder.” The leopard at the zoo I previously worked at would pace up and down his cage for days at a time and to make matters worss during a storm last winter half of his cage got destroyed. I was working there that summer and the cage had still not been redone, leaving this active leopard in a completely too small of a cage for his size, forcing him to go through ARD.

Then why is it that this Bush
Baby does not?

                We create zoos and by doing this have created more problems that we need to fix. As a whole they are unneeded and should be banned.