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The hell of captivity.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

My two-year-old son loves the aquarium store down the street. With the aquarium and zoo, I do not ask my boy to consider whether the mistreatment and suffering of captive water and land animals would change his mind about visiting these places, particularly not at such a young age. As he gets older, he will decide for himself how to address such issues.  Recently at the aquarium, we visited the reptile room. I was at first looking with fascination at a dragon lizard in a dry glass tank all alone. I then saw that this dragon lizard was clawing at the side of the tank in the direction of the adjacent tank that had two smaller dragon lizards. The larger lizard looked so anxious for companionship that it was not ready to recognize that it would not get to be with the other two lizards without the help of an aquarium employee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).