Do you remember going to the zoo when you were little? Do you remember taking your kids? A lot of the big zoos have closed these days as it is getting harder and harder for the owners to feed and care for these big animals. If you do find a zoo, you might not like what you find. The zoos now days are a lot smaller and most of these do not have all of the big animals that they used to when you were small. Some of the animals are so old that they are just left lying in their cages. They are fed and looked after, but there is just no where else for them to go.
You still can find those that have some of the really big animals, but they do not travel and if you want to see them you have to go to them. In the older days carnivals would travel from city to city and town to town. They would have all kinds of large rolling cages filled with all of these large animals. They would set up at the end of town and have their show run for usually three days. Do you remember thinking that you would not like being cooped up in those cages any more than those animals did?
Sometimes you would catch yourself thinking that you wish you were those animal trainers so you could travel all over the world. You might even catch yourself dreaming about all of the places these companies had been and wishing you could travel with them. Then you would see how they lived and this alone would help you change your mind. The people that traveled with these carnivals sometimes felt like those animals they worked with. They had no more peace than the animals. Now these carnivals do not travel as much as they used too, even though you might see one in a town from time to time.
There might not be as many animal trainers either as no one wants to run the risk of becoming hurt from these animals, it can be a dangerous job. After these animals get so old they do not what to do what their trainers want them to do so they might be so crabby and mean that even their trainer will stop using them and put them out to pasture. There are animal sanctuaries where some of the older ones can go where they are treated humanly and get to live out the remainder of their days in peace with some freedom.
Jenna Anderson is a writer and you can visit her sites at cabin decor and cabin furniture.
