NAPLAN Writing Prompt

Is it cruel to keep animals in cages?

Is it cruel to animals in cages? Most people would say yes to this question and some people would say no. I think that it is cruel to keep animals in cages and captivity because its cruel and inhumane.

What if, when you were three and you were walking in the jungle with your family, in the protected area of the jungle. Then, out of nowhere men and women come out, grab you, your family and take you away, rip you away from your family. Then when you look back you find yoursef, trapped, alone in a metal cage, ristricted from the rest of the world as your force fed and watched 24/7.

What if you were the one in the cage, cramped and alone, no one else but you, getting caried from place to place. Ristriced from the rest of your kind, ristricked from being a hunter. Would you want to be like that or would you want to be free, in the wild, with others of your kind.

Not ony does this happen world wide but it happens to much. Animals deserve to be left alone in the wild with its other speices and animals. A lion raised in captivity, fed meat by hand, killed by others will have a less chance of surviving than one brought up in the wild, hunting for its own survival, doing the dirty work and taking the risk. 

Some people think that Zoo's are an example of this, and they are right, but its not as gruesome as explained above. Zoo's do capture animals but they give them a good life, they feed them and groom them and make sure there animals are healthy but it still seems wrong. Even though Zoo's give there animals a better life then some in the wild, if they had to release them back into the wild, then most of them would die since they do not know the skills needed to fight, hunt and survive.

In conclusion, I think that animal captivity is wrong and should be stopped, but saying that that if we do stop it now, the conciquences may be major since all these untrained animals are let free and animals that may be on the edge of extinction, and being treated the way they were was the only way they knew how to survive, could infact lead to there extinction.