07/28/2025
If you truly love animals, ask yourself:
What’s educational about a lion pacing in circles behind glass?
What’s fun about a tiger trapped in a concrete box, stripped of freedom, dignity, and purpose?
This is not education.
And it’s definitely not something we should teach children to normalize.
💔 I still remember the first and only time I ever went to a zoo.. about 16 years ago.
I was much younger, and I left feeling heartbroken.
I couldn’t even explain why at the time… but I knew something was deeply wrong.
Now I understand: it wasn’t wonder I witnessed. It was suffering!
Instead of teaching kids that it’s “fun” to watch trapped animals, let’s teach them what true compassion looks like. Let’s raise a generation that values freedom over entertainment, and respect over tradition.
If you want to connect with animals in a meaningful, ethical way, choose spaces that protect not exploit.
Here are ethical places you can visit around Montreal:
🦉 Ecomuseum Zoo (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue)
A sanctuary for non-releasable native species. No tricks. No performances.
🦌 Parc Omega (Montebello)
A drive-through wildlife park where animals roam freely in their natural habitats.
Want to show your kids animals respectfully? Go here and observe wildlife naturally ⬇️
🌿 Îles-de-Boucherville & Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Parks
Where wildlife lives wild, and humans learn by observing.. not disturbing.
Let’s stop calling captivity “education.”
Let’s teach kindness, truth, and freedom.
Because there’s nothing “wild” about watching an animal waste away in a cage.
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