ANIMALS AT THE ZOO
Sir, —I had an hour to spare the other day and went to the 7,00. I walked round, and did not linger. I had not time, and did not care to. I came away with a feeling of profound pity for those animals. I saw a happy baby tiger, too young to know his fate, but the attitudes and expressions of nearly everything in it was weariness and endurance, oft repeated movements showing the fretted nerves of the animals.
The argument, of course, is that they are well fed and protected. That is the least we can do, when we take away their freedom. In my opinion it is unnatural and cruel, and not worth the interest given to children, or the heavy cost to tlie ratepayer of their upkeep. A Lover of Animals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 17
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138ANIMALS AT THE ZOO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 17
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