certain animals shouldnt be in cages since they have cognitive abilities

response to my opponent.......that's figurative....lol.....but ok.......but in a real situation it would be different......lol.....but i understand i feelthat way sometimes......this debate is about ethics and logic.Animals simply shouldn't be in cages since they have cognitive abilities.( by the way humans are also mammals. I will be arguing humans as well but mainly the human perception of animals)cage- anything that confines or imprisons; prison. cognition /cog·ni·tion/ (kog-nish´un) that operation of the mind process by which we become aware of objects of thought and perception, including all aspects of perceiving, thinking, and remembering.cog´nitive-----http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com...certain animals shouldnt be caged1. loss of freedom,sanitationThe fact that animals have cognitive abilities, brains, and nerves means they feel pain,sadness, and other emotions.dogs and cats don't like being in cages. They can show signs of being depressed...........http://www.vetinfo.com...imagine being a dog. Imagine being locked in a cage and having to pee or defecate. Now imagine being locked in a cage 24 hours and using the bathroom 4 times a day. If your owner is negligent or say your on a airplane,or your owner spent the night at their friends and forgot you. Your going to have to lay in your own waste for hours and there's nothing you can do about it. This isn't ethical dogs should be left outside or inside but not in cages they need to be able to move around.(some owners may not put food or water in the cage,dogs need lots of water, they can get severely dehydrated). Lets use the ideal of a caged bird. birds are free animals who lives to fly obviously. I'm sure there not happy locked inside a cage. Neither is any animal.2. animals cant possibly be happy in in a small confined areaLets look at amphibious creatures. Goldfish are incarcerated pretty much all there lives when they have a owner.Fish are supposed to be in a vast ocean, imagine the huge psychological transition if theve been freshly caught.Also most goldfish are in a small confinement where they barely have space(primely beta fish). Do you think they are in the best environment? possibly happy if they can feel the emotion?.....not possible........especially since people always forget to feed there fish......we all do it. and they should be able to find abundant food in the ocean and not depend on forgetful owners.3.possible aggression lash out, and denial of natural instinctthere has been numerous occasion when tiger,mammals and monkeys have all gone on rampage when theve been let out of there cages, or escaped due to aggression.here are examples----- The aftermath of the tragic tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo that killed one and severely wounded two more has left us with many questions. How did the tiger escape its confinement? Was it provoked? How could this happen? If it wasn't clear enough before, we must learn again: Wild animals are wild and capable, at any time, of aggressive, even fatal attacks. "These animals are bored. They're smart, they're agile, they're emotional and they're working 24/7 to get out of their prison because that's what they're in: a prison cell," said Mark Bekoff, a former professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado............http://abcnews.go.com... and from the same source........'The Animal Does What the Animal Does' We have seen this over and over, and not just with zoo animals. Consider Moe, a chimpanzee who lived with St. James Davis and his wife, LaDonna, in their suburban Los Angeles home for decades, until one day in 1999, he attacked a police officer and a woman and was sent to live at an animal sanctuary. During a visit to the sanctuary in 2005, two chimps in an adjacent cage escaped and attacked Davis and nearly mauled him to death. ABC News Photo Illustration In 2004 after 10 years of working together, a 6,000-pound whale attacked his Sea World trainer, repeatedly diving on top of him and driving him underwater before he was rescued. There was a similar whale attack in 2006. And a lion named Bongo attacked his trainer, Dave Salmoni, in front of an audience of thousands of school kids in Toronto in 1999. "He just sort of grabbed a hold of my arm, tore out some muscles and taught me a very good lesson," said Salmoni. "You believe they love you, like you love them. And that's the best lesson to learn about these guys. They don't have the same feelings that we do. And they won't think twice … if they come to kill you." Perhaps the most notable case involved Siegfried and Roy, the world-renowned Las Vegas performers that feature trained tigers. Roy was severely mauled on stage and nearly bled to death, attacked by a prized tiger he had raised and trained from a cub. "He probably did something that he didn't know he was doing that tipped off something that's hard-wired into the cat's brain," said Bekoff. "In my courses that I teach in animal behavior I always tell people when you've got these hard-wired behavior patterns, like predatory behavior, or hunting, or maternal behavior, or anti-predatory behavior — it doesn't take much to trip them. And I myself, who supposedly knows a lot about carnivores, was almost killed by a mountain lion and almost killed by a wolf because I did something unbeknownst to me that triggered something really hard-wired in their brain.".............http://abcnews.go.com... lastly we wouldn't want to be in cages so we shouldn't cage animals for amazement. or imagine being locked in a cage, like a zoo or normally perceived cage. We wouldn't be too happy we have a natural need to move around. being in a cage we are denied this. WE would no longer have access to food whenever we want. WE may be left and forgotten and forced to lay in our wastes. We will loose all happiness and our humanity. WE would go insane. so certain animals shoulnt be in cages since they have cognitive abilities.