Question

3. Why did the owner return the tortoise to PETA?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Wild animals : not domestic pets

Six o’clock in the morning, everybody is in a hurry, people are driving to work, kids are dropped to school, but yet Rasoa doesn’t start to move. Rasoa is 30 years old and since my brother adopted her 20 years ago, she has never left her yard. She will wake up only at 9, Rasoa has nowhere else to go and nothing to do, and my brother expects nothing from her. This is because Rasoa (Rasokatra) is not a human, but a Radiated tortoise, a pet inherited from our grandmother. A simple definition of pet : “animals intended for human companionship”. For tortoise, it’s not the case. Malagasy people associates the tortoises with medicinal virtues (kept in the garden for healing children asthma or preventing poultry from disease) or decorative purpose rather that be a companion. So it’s not rare to find tortosie in garden like Rasoa. But wild animal kept in captivity is living a miserable existence. It’s like you or me living like a prisoner for the rest of our lives, deprived of all its rights (the right to be free, the right to ensure its species survival). Moreover, people don’t care about their comfort. Like all reptiles, tortoises are coldblooded and they need their South native sun and heat, not the cold weather in Tana in August. Do you every know of someone worrying their tortoises are cold?

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