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Letter: Why keep an exotic animal at an amusement park?

Related Topics: Amusement park, Animal

I am 12 years old. I went to Lagoon yesterday, and something that I saw there made me very sad. I saw a zoo with a Siberian tiger inside it. I tried to continue having fun for the rest of the day, but all I wanted to do was to contact someone and try to free this animal or, better yet, to prevent other animals from having to live such a sad life.

Another thing that bothered me was that I saw no one stop and even look at this exotic animal. So I asked myself what the point of putting this animal into captivity really was.