Why Dolphin Captivity is Wrong - Please don't support places like Marine Land.

People love to watch the dolphin splashing through the tanks that they are held in. The sight of them jumping through hoops of fire and swimming with their trainers, just brings a feeling of warmth crashing down on you. A smile spread across the dolphins face, almost as if it has fun preforming in front of hundreds of people every day, the sound waves of screaming ringing through their ears every day. The truth is , that this is a living hell for a dolphin. What people don't understand is that a dolphins sense of hearing is its' strongest attribute, and when you put a dolphin in a concrete case, you're taking that away from them. It's like a human being trapped in a room full of mirrors their whole life. It eventually gets to your head. You're trapped, defenseless. Your future only holds one thing, and that is nothing. I am fighting for more then one cause, and that is what me and my friend are trying to do (Alex B.'s blog : http://www.freejapandolphins.blogspot.com/). I believe no animal is suppose to be in captivity. Dolphins travel miles upon miles every day, and being trapped in a small aquarium, is ruining their natural ways of migration. How would you like it if you were trapped in a small room without a phone or any sort of communication to the outside world, while there's a constant hum. That's what these animals are dealing with. It's time to stop, before we yet again instinct another one of natures beauties. Dolphins aren't meant to be watched through glass. They're meant to be watched sitting down on the shoreline, watching them jumping into the sunset, without a care in the world. Not starving doing tricks in front of an ignorant audience. Those places like Sea World and Marine Land, are contributing to the problem in Taiji, Japan. The only way we can stop it is if we don't visit these aquariums. Don't be a part of the slaughtering, say no to these places. Another thing I want to bring up, are these swim with the dolphins programs. A lot of people don't understand what's wrong with these, so I'll explain it to you in the simplest form. At these programs dolphins are put in shallow water, allowing people to interact with them, by petting and grabbing the dolphin. This is very stressful for dolphins. Constantly being touched while being held in captivity, when they could be swimming in the fresh ocean water. Think about people holding onto a dolphins fin, while the dolphin itself has no choice but to pull you around. It's not right. Please have some compassion and not support these hell holes. Swimming with the dolphins that look like they have smiles plastered on their faces, is one of natures biggest deceptions. Oh and if anybody who works at Marine Land, your motto is incorrect "Everybody love Marine Land, looks like you haven't met me because I absolutely hate Marine Land.

The Cove

Thousands upon thousands of dolphins are killed each year in Taiji, Japan. Though the solution seems very simple and clear, nothing is being done. The murdering of thousands of helpless souls takes place in Japan, in the remote town of Taiji every single year. The sad thing is that nobody knows about this, except for a small group of people and the government. This is a huge secret for such a little town. And it has to be exposed soon, before we say goodbye to yet another creature we have killed. The thing that opened my eyes to such a terrible travesty was the documentary "The Cove." I cannot thank you enough for making this movie and sharing with the world whats going on. If it weren't for these activists I don't think I would of ever heard about this. That's what's really sad to me. I had NO idea about this issue, until a month ago. I haven't forgot about it since. In the documentary it showed the slaughter of dolphins. It showed the spears piercing skin of trapped dolphins, the ringing screams of helpless souls, and the ending of thousands of lives. You know what really pissed me off about this? It was the Japanese fishermen, they were probably one of the most ignorant people I have ever seen. I wanted to physically punch them in the face. They got all up in the faces of the activists, just because they didn't want them to film. Hmmm, that seems a bit fishy.....Why wouldn't you want somebody filming your beautiful town? Why not film the beautiful blood that fills the water, and the beautiful screams of pain, and the beautiful smell of death? Huh, doesn't seem so beautiful does it? The activists asked citizens about this, and NOT one knew what was going on. That's a great government, one that lies. I would just love to live their. I don't understand how you can kill something we such ease, no remorse or pain. What was really interesting was that they had dolphin and whale statues everywhere. Claiming they love dolphins and whales. One of the activists stated that "it was like walking into a Stephen King movie", and you know what he was wrong. It's even worse. A Stephen King movie has a purpose, it was made that way, it was directed, meant to happen. This hell was not meant to happen, it doesn't have a place, it doesn't have anything. These people are garbage in my eyes. They are worthless, meaningless, just a waste of skin. I don't care if it's the money you need to make. It doesn't matter. You're just a bunch of worthless humans, that have no life. The day will soon come when you get what you deserve, and when that day does come I hope it kills. I hope it kills like the spears you willing jabbed into dolphins. I hope it never ever stops hurting.