Analysis: Should Animals Be Held In Captivity

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Should Animals Be Held In Captivity? Cade B.
Animals shouldn’t be in captivity because they are wild animals taken from their homes. According to the text wild animals lose their homes “First, they are put in unnatural settings”, this could be why animals attack. First, animals don’t use their hunter instincts and become lazy. Based on what I read the animals are becoming lazy when they don't have to hunt and those instincts have to come out eventually “as you unfortunately seen recently,there is potential for attack ”. Also, it is not good to keep animals locked up in a little area that looks like their habitat but isn’t. According to the passage it isn’t good for animals to be locked up “It is not good for the

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