Well I for one have seen and heard enough. I’m no PETA or animal rights extremist.
But I don’t think these great and beautiful carnivores need to be doing circus tricks to help pay for a marine amusement park.
These open ocean mammals are smart and this particular whale plays for keeps. Preditors with brains don’t take kindly to being cooped up.. get it!
I do understand that some of these whales could not survive long if released into the wild, so be it, keep it safe for now.
Lets end the Timothy Treadwell (RIP) like communing with these poor wild animals. How many more children will have to watch the slaughter of more trainers as if in some Roman Colosseum..
A friend of mine on another board summed it up well yesterday when he said “You confine a social, intelligent 6 ton creature to a bathtub for 30 years and you expect it to behave itself 100% of the time?”
And this morning on the radio Imus was going off on keeping them for shows etc - he said “It’s wrong to make them do tricks for the fat stupid tourists and their mouthbreathing obese kids” LOL.
I don’t mind them being kept in captivity if they’re injured and being rehabilitated, but the goal shouldn’t be keeping them in a “bathtub” and making them do tricks for the rest of their lives.
LQ