I have mixed feelings about this. I met a dolphin trainer in my home town once and from the interaction, I felt that most of these people try their best to keep the animals happy. But in reality, how happy could the animal be kept in such a limiting environment? And imagine all the stresses it must be put through to perform for us. It is really sad to see such an intelligent creature kept in docile captivity for the mere amusement of a bunch of kids. We humans have so much further to go in terms of respecting the rights of ALL animals (human and non-human). I do hope that they treat this orca with kindness, because it was getting a lot of bad press with it's history of violence, etc being highlighted. IMO anyone who gets bad press should be the owners of SeaWorld and the visitors who fund this whole damn operation.

went to a zoo once as a small child on a school field trip. hated it. cried and wound up sitting on a bench with one of the chaperones until the field trip concluded. i am from san diego and have never been to sea world nor would i ever go there. i simply do not believe in, support or condone animals being caged and displayed like performing trinkets on your grandmother's bookshelf. it is wrong on the deepest level. it is worse than simply murdering a creature to deny it it's fundamental right to have a free life. to exist as it has evolved to over the course of millions of years.

what happened was very sad. for the whale. for the woman. for humanity. repopulation programs and nursing animals until they are well enough to be released back into their natural habitat is completely cool and exploits the best parts of us as humans. condemning animals to an entire life imprisoned for our amusement is just sick and wrong.

zoos and aquatic parks should be banned by any and all who value freedom of life. this kinda shit sickens me...

LOVE AND GRATITUDE...

...and a distinct amount of disgust...

Its to sad how animals are treated these days, it just breaks my heart that a really negative perception will be created by this incident world wide about whales in general. Animals are so fragile if they are in an unnatural environment it really affects them greatly on many levels, i don't think zoos and aquariums are the way to go at all. As people are observing the animals in their unnatural environment's and it affects their natural behavior to such a point that their behavior is completely unnatural. So the whole idea of zoos and aquariums existing to educate the general public about wild animals and their behavior doesn't even make any sense as their natural behavior's are completely eroded to a point where they don't have any natural behavior left.

My heart aches for all the animals in captivity around the world. It reminds me of that place Tiger Island in China where the owner keeps tigers in a zoo like environment for tourists to see. They are shockingly overweight and the tigers randomly just go missing all the time. A guy on Animal Planet tracked down where all the tigers were going missing to, the same owner who owned Tiger Island owned the tiger wine factory. The factory manufactured the tiger wine by placing the tigers skeletons in these huge ceramic jars to ferment in. I was so shocked that the Chinese government allows this to happen and this operation is just allowed to fly under the radar. It really affects me greatly that such a precious and endangered animal can be treated in this horrific way but i guess for them tradition is tradition and money is money.

Ant

Beautifully said my friend...


Much Peace and Compassion