As a personal animal lover myself, it's heartbreaking seeing "hamster cages" at places like PetSmart when they look more like dollhouses. Domesticated hamsters don't get enough love and appreciation and I hope we as humans can all do better to help out our fuzzy friends
In 2022 I became interested in adopting a Hamster. I had no idea the amount of work and money that needed to go into owning a hamster. Through amazing people on YouTube I learned how to properly take care of a hamster. It is not cheap and they are not low maintenance pets. Most people think hamsters are ‘easy, cheap, and fun pets’ and that is what leads to this horrible mistreatment of hamsters and all pets sold by pet smart in general. There is no cheap pet. Hamsters are not kids toys. Pet smart, please, we are asking you to treat Hamsters and other animals you sell with the respect they deserve. No one wants to be locked up.
Jailing hens in sunless industrial facilities and confining them to small cages is cruel, unjust treatment. There is never a moment of joy or comfort for these unfortunate animals stuck in these fece-laden, fetid environments. Little wonder bird flu has become so rife in these places of stress and misery. They need time outdoors in the fresh air and sunlight.
Hens suffer up to 30 hours of cage confinement for each egg they lay. They cannot spread their wings. They have strong desires to express their natural behaviors: dusbathing, perching in trees at night, exploring the environment, and building social groups, but in a cage, they are deprived of all of these. They want to find a private and safe place to lay their egg, but they can't, they have to do it cramped next to the other hens. Wings are an appendage that is the physical manifestation of freedom. It's perverse and tragic to cage a bird. Chickens are intelligent, sensitive, social animals. Letting them out of the cages is the very least we can do for them.
I eat meat and dairy products but don't like to see any animal suffer. We owe all these creatures respect and humane treatment. That is why I no longer frequent KFC; all KFCs in Ontario except for Thunder Bay and Ottawa are supplied with Halal butchered chickens. This should not be allowed in this country.
Denying a hen her natural behavior is nothing less than animal torture. Imagine living in a cage without room to spread your arms. You would literally go crazy. Well, hens react similarly. Hens are often viewed as an egg-laying machine and nothing else. That does not mean they don't suffer both physically and psychologically when abnormally confined. Human beings should be better than cruel custodians of other species. We use hens for our own purposes and do not care for the animal on any level except as a thing. "A country can be judged by how it treats its animals." a quote from an unknown source. To torture another animal is inexcusable. We must be better than that.
Denying a hen her natural behavior is nothing less than animal torture. Imagine living in a cage without room to spread your arms. You would literally go crazy. Well, hens react similarly. Hens are often viewed as an egg-laying machine and nothing else. That does not mean they don't suffer both physically and psychologically when abnormally confined. Human beings should be better than cruel custodians of other species. We use hens for our own purposes and do not care for the animal on any level except as a thing. "A country can be judged by how it treats its animals." a quote from an unknown source. To torture another animal is inexcusable. We must be better than that,
Chickens are sentient, intelligent and feeling beings, not objects to be used for what humans want without even taking a moment to learn and acknowledge what the chickens are going through to provide for us.
Considering the mandate of the organizations which should have immediately intervened on behalf of Dakota it is shocking that her neglect and abuse was allowed to continue (until too late). This is a very sad outcome and should never happen gain. There should be upgrades to the animal cruelty law in Canada to fully cover these kinds of cases to act as a major deterrent.