By Patrick Craig | Executive Director
Habitat – Home – Casa – Abode – Domain; No matter what you call your place of dwelling, I bet it’s really important to you. If you didn’t have it, what would you be missing?? When you get right down to the core of that question the answer is simple: You would be missing your safe space, the place you can be yourself and have privacy from all the craziness of the world.
When you put a wild animal in a zoo, while it’s nice to be able to see them up close, it’s not really a home. People can still poke their faces in at them and they get no privacy. It would be similar to sitting in your home and every person that passes by walks up and checks out what you are doing through your window… creepy!! And what if they knock on the window and try and get you to perform? Yikes!
Worse still, when you put a wild animal in a small cage, they have no ability to choose privacy, they get no exercise, and they can become depressed.
Part of the life we strive to give back to every animal we rescue starts simply with a good home. A place that’s theirs where they have space, freedom, and the thing we take most for granted – the ability to choose privacy. The habitats we build at TWAS are not complete without private dens and as much freedom to roam as possible. While there is so much more that goes into each of the habitats, these essential needs (outside of plenty of food & water) are met first.
We can’t begin to explain the way it feels when you see an animal realize they can move wherever they want. When they touch real earth and not rebar or concrete for the first time. When you see them run and stretch and play knowing they have never had the opportunity to do any of that. And when they discover they have a private place to go and just… be. I’m getting goosebumps even writing about it!
Each of these habitats takes ALOT of funding and manpower. With your support we can continue to provide the animals with the freedom to roam in large-acreage habitats!
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