Freedom for pets

Many people believe that their pets are happy to live a comfortable life with them. I'm a pet-lover, too, but I think that pets should have their own lives, free and independent on humans. When considering pets as wild animals, we can see that for them, living together with humans in cities is not desirable.

The first trouble we can think of is that pets live in different environment from where their wild ancestors had lived. Instead of trees, sand and other animals, pets live in concrete houses surrounded by artificial furniture. Often, they are "protected" to stay in a small range of area, mostly in a house. They can't go and see the outside world. We keep them as human's belonging or prisoners. If you ever experience the strangeness of moving to live in other countries, pets are in the same, even more awful, situation.

Because their worlds are closed, some instinct behaviors cannot be done. Their have no friends, no love or mating (we don't expect our pets give birth!). Also no enemies (the only one can be thought of is cars in streets that might kill them by one hit), therefore no practicing is needed. Dog's legs that are designed for long and fast run are just used for walking with its host. The tree-climbing talent of cats becomes unnecessary. Furthermore, their immunity against of diseases may disappear. In fact, pets get ill easier than their wild counterpart.

The best thing we can supply them is food. People think that they give their pets food with enough nutrition and tastiness. I think pets' liver is designed to consume natural food than that is made in factories or well-cooked. Actually, some problems occur when pets' consuming organs are acquainted with well-cooked food. Their noses still stimulate them to eat fresh flesh, but the stomachs no longer accept that kind of food anymore.

Let's see what pets think about their lives, if they can meditate as humans. They may realize that they are leading extremely boring lives. What do they do for their whole lives? Almost nothing rather than walking around. We don't expect our pets do anything special. Just staying still as ornaments is enough to make their hosts happy.

What can we conclude after discussing so far? If human beings have the right to be free, so do animals. We should NOT keep pets. They are definitely not happy belonging to us. Let show how much we love them by sending them back to nature where they deserve to be.

--- Posted on July 29th by minhem ---