Animal trainers

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(07-05-2019, 05:41 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Shadow:

About #175: I just rectify a little bit what I told at #174. When I think about captive animals, I think about animals living in open air as couple or in pride but absolutely not in cages and thus too not taken from wild. Of course their territory is absolutely too restricted but at least they can run a little bit. To see animals in cages, IMO, means witnessing reclusion, imprisonment.

As for the rest, agree with you.

My point is more or less, that almost no-one likes to see caged animals. But it is as it is and there is nothing what can be done in short term. So instead of always saying the obvious, maybe sometimes it is good to discuss what can be actually changed in shorter term. One thing is, that if there is some place, where animals are treated poorly, that kind of place can be looked closer and for instance officials can intervene.

When we look at overall situation, it is obvious, that we can´t get rid of captive animals just like that. That is impossible from various reasons, one for instance, that what should all those people do, who get living as zookeepers, trainers and so on. It is easy to say, that something is not right, but as usual, things aren´t that simple. It is good, that animal activists defend animal rights, but if people want to make changes, then looking at both sides of the coin is needed. And while waiting for bigger changes there are a lot of smaller, but important, things to do too. 

I just don´t like, when seeing time to time animal activists, who actually know nothing about wildlife and would shit their pants, if someone would drop them in the middle of the forest with tent and tell to hang on for 2-3 days Or some trainer saying, "ok, you don´t like how I train this tiger, please come in here and show me how it should be done ".

Anyway it would be nice to have some discussion about trainers from that point of view, that who seem to do it so, that animals seem to be calm and expressing, that they actually like their trainer etc. And who then again seem to have nervous, timid and aggressive animals. For some reason I tend to believe more what such trainers say, who have these calm animals. There has to be something they do right, when animals act like that. Reply