Poor Little Animals, Animal Rights #1

To many people today, animals are nothing more than pets for children or just for one's amusement, a mere form of education or even worse just for annoyance. Spend 24 hours locked in a tiny room with barely enough space to move your arms, with no privacy, and nothing at all to do to pass the time, and maybe then you will have a taste of what animals go through. Whether in safari parks, zoos, roadside displays, or petting zoos. They are at the bottom of the heap in the zoo world.


Some animals enrage at the feeling of being cage or imprisoned, relentlessly clawing at the bars. While others, have succumbed to the endless routine of boredom and show little interest toward anything at all. The high demand for cute baby animals, particularly for photography purposes, leaves adult animals with nowhere safe to go. Many of them get sold off at auctions, used for hunting, or even slaughtered for exotic meats. Could it get any lower than that? Even with practically the whole world aware of what animals are going through, there is little anyone is doing about it. There are so few agriculture inspectors to oversee thousands, maybe even billions of breeders, dealers and exhibitors. Even so, inspections are carried out roughly once a year, and sometimes even less frequently with minimal standards of concern.
It is perfectly legal to keep a monkey in a tiny cage for his or her entire life or provide a 10-foot, 600 pound tiger with only a fraction of living space of an average housecat.


More breeding does nothing to help the wild populations but merely adds to the number of surplus animals out there. The excess number of big cats such as lions, leopards and tigers discovered is staggering to say the least.
People often fail to give animal the respect and rights they deserve, they are treated as lifeless and emotionless scientific creatures that we discard at our own convenience. Some of these animals come from small shelters or even worse from their own front yard. If you have a pet, imagine your pet being shoved in a cage along with 10 other animals aimlessly waiting to die for no real reason at all due to numerous scientific tests. Before these animals die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, electrocuted, drugged, subject to near freezing temperatures, dosed with radioactive substances and driven insane. Some are even deliberately infected with deadly deseases such as cancer, diabetes, multiple kinds of infections, syphilis, herpes and etc. Hopefully some day there will be a way that animals can get the respect they deserve.