My daughter told me about this documentary, Blackfish, she said I should watch it. She said it was about Sea World and the whales.

I resisted at first because cruelty to animals is something I find very hard to stomach. I knew I would cry when I saw the movie, yet because my daughter found it upsetting I knew I would watch it eventually.

I watched it tonight on Netflix and I gained a different perspective on Sea World and Zoos.

First of all let me introduce you to the reality of an Orca whale in the wild.

Each family has its own language and their brains are much more developed than the brain of a human.

In the wild the mothers live to be one hundred years old and the males fifty to sixty years old.

They are much like humans with one exception.They have an additional part of the brain which is a superlimbic area of the brain. The limbic area of the brain is what handles emotions.

Because they have this part of the brain, which humans fail to have, they form attachments to their family which are for life. A child of an Orca mother never leaves the mother’s side.

Yet when a baby was born to a mother whale at Sea World they separated the baby from the mother after a period of years. The mother responded with trembling, shaking and screaming for the loss of her child.

People we have to stop thinking that we are the only species who matters. This is outrageous behavior. To discount the welfare of another species for our own stupid entertainment is horrific.

The Orca whales have injured or killed seventy trainers. They are killer whales.(What the hell does one expect from them?)

I only wish the owners of Sea World had been in the tank with them and not the trainers because the trainers actually adore these whales.

It is time that parents start to teach their children to respect and nurture animals. God created all of us and when He gave authority to us over other species He did so assuming we would not misuse our authority.

I took my children to Sea world when they were young. I will not take my grand children. I will never go there again. Neither will I advertise for them on my blog.

A child will not stray from the path that you consistently teach them. I have always taught my children to be kind to those who are disabled, to not look at others through the lens of race but rather through love and to always be compassionate to animals and nature.

As I said my daughter told me to watch this film. I can see my teaching has born precious fruit in this wonderful child.

If everyone would make a pledge to teach their children to love nature and animals this world would be a better place to live and I daresay Sea World would be empty and bankrupt and the whales would be returned to the ocean.

Please watch Blackfish and boycott any establishment or venue which so mistreats animals. Then take it one step further and educate your children on the value of animals and nature.

I do believe that God did not create animals for us to torture and misuse them but rather to enjoy and nurture them as we do our children.