We are now, no different from the people who once lived in caves and we’re literally beasts. Though, even in comparison to them, we fail to rise in their equivalence. At least they treated animals like living creatures. The treatment of animals at the Lahore Zoo is no less than the treatment of any prisoner in jail; and even there, those prisoners have done something perhaps to deserve it, what have these poor animals done? These animals have no voice (at least one which us humans understand; though, given the current scenario of our treatment of animals, I really am skeptic of the form of our existence). They cannot protest, they cannot fight back. They are helpless. These helpless creatures are defenseless of the injustices shoved at them. At the zoo, there is no medical facility, nothing of which to cater to the basic needs of these trapped animals. Given how soon they die after being put in the Lahore Zoo, I’m pretty sure they’re not given food on regulated timings. Water, is a dream for these captured wanderers; and if by any chance their dream is fulfilled, it is water in a bowl from the gate-keeper’s toilet, perhaps inclusive of piss.These animals need our help. Despite the fact that day by day we learn something new and eventually more and more children of our nation are being educated, we are not heading in the direction of civilization. We carry our law and philosophy books, we eat with forks and knives; yet we kick the stray cats and dogs that cross our paths. Sad as it is, our books and knowledge is of no use if we haven’t become the least bit civilized to care for other living creatures. We are then, inhuman. Corruption, ruthlessness, cruelty… all has a new address. Our country. I do not tend to let them stay. And am sure, neither do you. The Lahore Zoo, may continue to import rare white tigers (or any other nearly extinct/rare animal for that matter) but we shall not sit and watch them kill them like they killed the rest. We shall not watch them ruin and destroy more animal lives. Action must be taken; that’s a given. We should try and organize a volunteer service that will cater to the needs of these creatures. This service would need vets and every other volunteers who want to save these animals from being victims of this unjust treatment.