I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.
Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.
I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.
I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.