OLD LADY LOLITA

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures." — The Dali Lama

This is Lolita, she was basically poached, ripped apart from her pod, and brought to the Miami Seaquarium when she was just 4 years old. She has been living their by herself, in the smallest orca whale tank in the nation, for over forty years. She is now at least 44, and is still forced to perform. The average female orca lifespan is 50 years. This breaks my heart. How can an animal be happy living in the same small tank by herself when she used to have the whole ocean to explore and an entire pod as family. This is absolutely a case of animal abuse and exploitation. But now she has a chance to live out the last few years of her life as a free whale. Below I included a link to a story I wrote about Lolita for the magazine I write for: globalanimal.org. 


HERE is the link to the full heartbreaking story, and HERE is the link to the petition you can sign to help set her free. :)

(photo from slaveforentertainment.com)