CAGED WILD ANIMALS
»ir,-Granted that it is most reprehensible to capture adult wild creatures and cage them. At the same time is there not a lot of pharisaical nonsense talked about it? For instance, how many are bred in captivity and actually owe their existence to people interested in them. I should hesitate to compare their housing with a prison or their keepers with warders. Even the fox, grouse, pheasant and our bunny owe their existence to man’s clemency. Is my canary constantly yearning to fly the fields? Even suppose he has vague yearnings, is a dreamer, aren’t we all? Nor would I admit the claim of universal beatitude for wild things until their universal jumpiness is explained away. The whole lot of them are perpetually on the defehsive: always on the qui vive, or am I wrong?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 7
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140CAGED WILD ANIMALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 7
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