Yes, the caged beasts live longer lives caged, but are they quality lives? I watch a lot of Geopets and DoDo animal videos because it makes me feel good to know that a homeless, abused, neglected or a retired farm animal will be cared for. Perhaps such videos will replace the visual spectacle of having to watch a caged creature in the zoo which can then operate more as rescue places while an animal is waiting for its "forever" home, farm or pen with us watching the on-screen action.
I used to go to the Central Park Zoo on my lunch hours, sit and “commune” with the lions and gorillas, appreciating them and apologizing for their captivity. What a life!!!
Yes, I do think zoos today are trying to help animals in the wild and save "rescues" but they thread a fine ethical needle. The tiger i watched for a while had only one canine [rather insulting term dont you think] and that was just a stub, so it might not have been suited for the wild. but it paced and paced and paced.
More ethical needles along the human/animal/fear/love/ spectra is the movie we saw last night on Amazon: The Animal Kingdom. (Not the TV series -- the movie.) Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvsTFVEKHc It's intelligent sci-fi with some very fine acting on the part of some of the humans.
Yes, the caged beasts live longer lives caged, but are they quality lives? I watch a lot of Geopets and DoDo animal videos because it makes me feel good to know that a homeless, abused, neglected or a retired farm animal will be cared for. Perhaps such videos will replace the visual spectacle of having to watch a caged creature in the zoo which can then operate more as rescue places while an animal is waiting for its "forever" home, farm or pen with us watching the on-screen action.
Purrfect pix and commentary 😻
Thank you.
Both kinds of people, cats and humans seem to share a wide range of desires
and instincts.
:)
I used to go to the Central Park Zoo on my lunch hours, sit and “commune” with the lions and gorillas, appreciating them and apologizing for their captivity. What a life!!!
Yes, I do think zoos today are trying to help animals in the wild and save "rescues" but they thread a fine ethical needle. The tiger i watched for a while had only one canine [rather insulting term dont you think] and that was just a stub, so it might not have been suited for the wild. but it paced and paced and paced.
More ethical needles along the human/animal/fear/love/ spectra is the movie we saw last night on Amazon: The Animal Kingdom. (Not the TV series -- the movie.) Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvsTFVEKHc It's intelligent sci-fi with some very fine acting on the part of some of the humans.
I'll check it out. thanks.
Great motto! I'm going to adopt it for my sedentary lifestyle too!
You? sedentary? HA!
Love the pictures! And thoughtful comments!
Thanks. Hadn't been to a zoo in dog years.