Should Animals Be Kept At Home Essay

There is a debate going on as to whether or not animals that are kept in a home are the same as an animal being held in captivity in a zoo or a park such as SeaWorld. The purpose of this essay is to argue that having a pet kept at home is not the same as being held in captivity in a zoo or a park. The key points that I will address in this essay are that animals that are kept at the zoo or at seaworld feel more isolated, less mobile, and get less affection than domesticated pets. First, pets are not as isolated from their “real” habitats as animals held in captivity. Animals that live in the zoo are isolated from their natural habitat because they get put in an mini artificial version of their real habitat. Theoretically, the habitats that the animals live in at the zoo are supposed to be a replica of their actual environment using fake yet realistic objects. For example, at Seaworld, the

Pets, like cats and dogs, are free to walk around the home or outside. In the documentary “Blackfish,” by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the narrator talks about how the whales at Sealand had to stay in one 20 x 30 module for two-thirds of their life. This means for a long period of time they had to stay in one cage where they could barely move around. Even when they left this module, they could only swim in a small pool that is a small fraction of their free range in the wild. According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Kids, whales swim up to 100 miles a day, but places like SeaWorld and Sealand prevents them from doing that by putting them in small tiny pools. The same thing goes for zoo animals. Animals in the zoo are almost like prisoners. They have a very limited space for them to move around in. According to the New York Times article, an elephant from Manila Zoo was imprisoned there for 40 years. During those 40 years, she did not have the same mobility that she would in the