Animals and birds should receive their freedom and never kept in cages. Animals and birds are the most peaceful creatures on earth and unfortunately they are receiving a very harsh treatment from many people. Animals and birds should be treated by mildness and humane. Nevertheless, animals and birds have been mistreated and abused over years and they did not have any rights also. The situation now is considered to be much better than before. People have to know that animals and birds are creatures with feelings and emotions. The awareness about the rights of animals and birds is raised in the recent years. “How little we know of the inner life of animals! How few our facts are, and how little certain we are of them!” (Henry, 1990) People should also know that keeping animals and birds in cages turn them to be brutal and violent. Animals and birds should not be kept in cages because they have feelings, it violates their right to freedom, they are loyal creatures and captivity harms their health.
Reasons Why Animals Should Not Be Kept in Cages:
Animals and Birds Are Creatures with Feelings:
Animals and birds are creatures with souls, hearts and feelings. The whole idea of keeping a living creature in cage is just for amusement is not accepted at all, because if we applied this activity on humans it would cause huge and furious objections. When the idea is not accepted on human terms, it should be also not accepted on animals as well. Animals and birds are like humans and needs to be treated with mercy and kindness in order to gain their love and appreciation. They also help their owners sometimes in many things like work.
In fact, animals and birds are living creatures and exactly like humans, have feelings and can feel joy and pain also. Animals and birds never forget a favor done by a human being to them. Therefore, animals and birds should not be kept in cages because they have souls and feelings; they have rights which are violated by captivity in spite of other people disagreement.
It Is Against the Right to Freedom:
Animals and birds have rights and should gain their freedom. Even the animals which are living in the wild are not away or safe from the abuse of many of the humans. “In the fall of I894 my attention was attracted by the calls of a certain species of birds passing overhead during several nights in middle September”. (Libby, 1902) People go to forests and hunt the rare species of animals and birds in order to kill or sell them and consider it as a sort of sport. Thus, all violations for the rights of animals and birds must be strongly confronted and dealt with. And this mission is mainly the responsibility of organizations which defend the rights of humans, as they should also defend the rights of abused animals and birds and also to raise the awareness of people to treat animals and birds in a good way and never consider them as lifeless objects.
Animals and Birds Are Loyal Creatures:
In reality, animals and birds can understand and realize the life events and circumstances. Furthermore, many types of animals and birds are considered the most loyal creatures to the human race more than people themselves in many cases such as, dogs, cats and horses. There is no doubt that you must have heard more than once on TV and the news about the heroic acts of many animals, especially dogs, in saving their owners from danger, and other who stayed beside their owners graves after their death because of sadness. Unlike many humans, animals and birds never forget a favor or an act of charity a human offers to them. There is no doubt that all the previous facts are enough evidences that animals and birds have souls and feelings to feel happiness, sadness and pain.
It Could Harm Their Psychology and Health:
Another important reason why animals and birds should not be kept in cages is that prisoning animals and birds in cages is very bad for their health. The health of animals and birds should be apriority for all the governments due to their great contribution in the development process of agriculture and economy. This also should not be limited to a certain type or species of birds or animals. Most countries depend on animals and birds for developing the agriculture and economy so they should be aware of their health care. “People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is “Yes!” Animals surely deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation”. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2015) Animals and birds lose their health and become unable to live normal life in cages. Animals and birds were created to live in the wild not to be prisoned in cages. Animals and birds are more healthy and effective when they receive their freedom and live outside cages. In other words, animals and birds belong to the wild life and perform much better in there.
Different Opinions Against Animal and Birds Rights:
On the other hand, there are some views still supports the idea of putting animals and birds in cages. Some of these people are doing this because of their harshness without caring for the feelings of the animals. Others are doing this as a result of their belief that keeping animals and birds will protect them. In addition there are some people who think that putting animals and birds in cages will prevent them from escaping. However, the most ridiculous and brutal people who do this because they believe that animals and birds are low creatures and must be treated on this base. Hence, most people think that animals and birds should be humiliated and treated as low creatures.
Conclusion:
Finally, animals and birds should be treated like we treat human beings and should not put them in cages because they have feelings and rights just like the humans. However, the most fundamental right of animals and birds to obtain their own freedom and live without restrictions or bonds just like us the human race. The world of animals and birds is full with amazing facts which need further study and analysis.
