Our membership to the SF Zoo ran out yesterday. We decided to get one since we were going quite a few times a year and for the cost of two entries we could get a membership that allowed us to enter as many times as we wanted for a year for free. We ended up going a lot more than two times and seriously got out monies worth. We went their enough times that we saw things change over the year and animals come and go. Sadly a few too many went this year through dying from old age or disease. Other than one sign at one exhibit there is nothing to show that these animals were ever there. The saddest one was probably Orkney, the blind 40 year old seal that had a small pool to float around in. He never really did much due to being completely blind but he had been at the zoo most of his life. The fact that they looked after him and let him live a life he never would have managed in the wild made him a favourite of my wife and I's.
I think we are both of the opinion that any animal that can be helped should be. A lot of them suffer enough due to no fault of their own and "letting nature take it's course" always seems a cop out. Humans are part of nature despite what some people may think. Doing our part to help other parts of nature (well those that aren't trying their best to kill us) seems a good way to live your life. Just because something is the way it is in nature isn't a reason to not do anything. If humans hadn't done anything then even more species would be extinct today than there currently are. Sure some species were wiped out due to humans but a lot of humanity is now doing it's best to reverse that trend and help all living things.
Now if you will excuse me I have to go work out how to get a huge house and piece of land for our own little menagerie of pets and animals.
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