I have had the privilege of raising several animals. Yes. And I honestly learned more about the animals and what is happening to them in the wild than I otherwise would have. My biggest issue with animal rights people is that they don’t seem to have much to say about the wild, instead, they just seem to attack people who have animals in captivity. Tigers are a great example as 100 years ago there were an estimated 100,000 tigers in the wild and now, today, there is a fluctuating less than 4000. Yet these people don’t talk about that, they complain that there are more of them in captivity but the biggest issue remains undiscussed. I worry that if it weren’t for captivity these animals would become nothing more than a myth to future generations at the rate that they are disappearing in the so called wild