Why animals should not be held in captivity Shaima Year 5

                                  Why animals should not be held in captivity

I strongly believe that animals should not be held in captivity. I will persuade you as to why animals should not be held in captivity.

God has created creatures to be free. They were meant to live in their natural habitat. Their natural habitat is suited and made for them e.g. polar bears live where there's snow and where it’s cold and a camel lives in the desert where it’s hot. Both animals would not  survive an hour in each other’s habitat. What right do people have to hold animals in zoos. Would you like to be held in a zoo? Zoos aren’t their natural habitat. Habitats are created for different animals e.g. Antarctica is created for penguins and polar bears.  In their natural habitat they’ll feel free and happy, which is healthy for them.

At the zoo's people mock and tease the animals. The animals get upset and angry. They might even attack you. Sometimes people throw rubbish or rocks at them. Would you like people to tease or throw things at you? One of the reason why they do this is because they want to see what the animals will do. The animals sometimes eat the rubbish that has been thrown and die.

Although the zoo’s feed the animals the food that they give is full of chemicals. Like a any other person it will affect the animal's health by making them sick. In their natural environment they will eat natural food. That will be beneficial for their bodies, because it will make them healthy and strong. Naturally I feel that zoos do more harm than good. The fact is that, if an animal is released after spending it’s whole life at the zoo it won’t survive in the wild. The animal won’t be able to find food and it will sustain itself . You may wonder why, and the reason to that is because in the zoos the food is always provided.

Animals don’t deserve to be held in cages. They give us food e.g. cows give us milk and chickens give us eggs. Here are two reasons why animals should not be held  in cages. Firstly people don’t care about the animals. They don’t care at all. Imagine if they were putting you in a cage. Would you like to be held in a cage? People would only care if they were putting their friends into cages. They would put an animal into a cage but they wouldn’t put a human. They shouldn't be doing these animals into cages, they are living creatures just like us. Secondly people want food. They don’t care what they're eating, they just eat it. But imagine if that was your dog or cat. Would you eat them?

Like all animals God created birds to be free. God didn’t create them to be held in captivity. God didn’t create birds to have their wings clipped, or to have their beaks taped shut. If a bird is released from captivity it won’t have wings and it won’t be able to fly. It will die from hunger because it has it’s beak taped shut. Tigers are natural predators. They hunt for their food. In the zoo’s the food is just given to them. This is how tigers lose their ability to hunt. If a tiger is released from the zoo it won’t be able to hunt and it will get eaten. Elephants are hunted for their tusks. Most of the time elephants are held in captivity for their tusks. After taking their tusks they would release them and the elephant will die.

As I have mentioned animals should not be held in captivity.I trust that I have provided you with adequate reasons as to why animals should not be held in captivity.