🐾 Welfare Big Cat Cubs – #throwback2025 🐾 Thousands of indigenous and exotic big cats in SA’s captive predator industry face the same welfare issues as lions: early separation, poor welfare, cub petting, zoo displays, & a thriving trade in skins, bones, claws etc. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity
🐾 Welfare Big Cat Cubs – #throwback2025 🐾 Thousands of indigenous and exotic big cats in SA’s captive predator industry face the same welfare issues as lions: early separation, poor welfare, cub petting, zoo displays, & a thriving trade in skins, bones, claws etc. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity
🐾 Welfare Other Predators – #throwback2025 🐾 SA’s captive predator industry exploits not only lions but many other indigenous and exotic big cats. Some, like young leopards, are kept in cages as small as 10×14m, leaving little room to move or exercise. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity
🐾 Animal Welfare – Why should we care? 🐾 Better animal welfare improves animals’ lives, reduces zoonotic disease risks, lowers stress for people who work with captive wild animals, and builds empathy and well-being in society. Learn more 👉 bloodlions.org/theyfeeltoo3/ #TheyFeelToo
Playing with cubs, walking with lions or taking predator selfies fuels a cruel industry ⛓️🦁⛓️ — not conservation. ‼️ Cubs aren’t orphaned. ‼️ They’re bred for profit. Say no to captivity and help end their suffering. Be the change. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity #KillingThemSoftly
Playing with cubs, walking with lions or taking predator selfies fuels a cruel industry ⛓️🦁⛓️ — not conservation. ‼️ Cubs aren’t orphaned. ‼️ They’re bred for profit. Say no to captivity and help end their suffering. Be the change. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity #KillingThemSoftly
📢 YOU’RE KILLING THEM SOFTLY 📢
Paying to pet, walk or watch captive lions fuels cruelty for profit ❌🦁 Their lives are short, their suffering real. You’re not helping them — you’re killing them softly.
🟢 Say no to captivity.
🟢 Say no to exploitation.
#TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity
📢 YOU’RE KILLING THEM SOFTLY 📢
Paying to pet, walk or watch captive lions fuels cruelty for profit ❌🦁 Their lives are short, their suffering real. You’re not helping them — you’re killing them softly.
🟢 Say no to captivity.
🟢 Say no to exploitation.
#TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity
South Africa is top global wildlife supplier, exporting 16+ million live wild animals (2013–2023), incl. 5,500 predators. Many go to China and Vietnam with poor welfare records, fueling trade in bones, skins & meat. SA has a moral obligation to protect these animals. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity
In SA’s captive predator industry lions & other predators suffer deeply. Poor diets, disease, stress & confinement lead to obesity, injury, pacing, self-mutilation & mental distress. Their welfare is compromised for profit. #TheyFeelToo #CancelCaptivity More: bloodlions.org/theyfeeltoo6/
In SAs commercial predator industry not only lions, but leopards, cheetahs, servals, tigers & more are bred. Torn from mothers, used for petting & photo props, sold to zoos, and traded for parts. Their suffering is the same. #TheyFeelToo Time to #CancelCaptivity More: tinyurl.com/7426xs8a
Rarities, like white lions, lions with dark manes, or white tigers are widely bred in SAs captive predator industry for their trophy hunting value. They’re bred from small founder populations causing inbreeding & welfare issues. #TheyFeelToo Time to #CancelCaptivity More tinyurl.com/7426xs8a
South Africa has minimum requirements for enclosure space for lions, but most other big cats are not afforded such standards. Their cages can be as small as 10x14 m for three young leopards. This impacts their welfare further due to the inability to exercise. #TheyFeelToo Time to #CancelCaptivity
“What are the welfare implications of harassing or provoking captive lions for our entertainment”, we ask Dr Audrey Delsink from @humaneworld.bsky.social She discusses the complications of social dynamics of captive lions and the potential for aggression when provoking them. #TheyFeelToo
“What are the welfare implications of harassing or provoking captive lions for our entertainment”, we ask Dr Audrey Delsink from @Humane World for Animals. She discusses the complications of social dynamics of captive lions and the potential for aggression when provoking them. #TheyFeelToo
As we have seen in our #TheyFeelToo campaign, by the time lions enter the stage in their lifecycle for slaughter and “canned” hunting, they have already suffered years of captivity in often substandard conditions impacting their welfare and well-being. Watch here:
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In 2016, a Constitutional Court made the groundbreaking statement that “the rationale behind protecting animal welfare has shifted from merely safeguarding the moral status of humans to placing intrinsic value on animals as individuals”.
#southafrica #theyfeeltoo
Animal sentience and how it underpins animal welfare is just one aspect touched on during our reading of the book ‘The Tail of Three Lions’ at Valbonne Collage recently. Our YouthForLions team member, Catherine Turner, loved reading for grades 1-3 students. #TheyFeelToo
After a long history of asserting that animals have no cognisance and therefore do not have the capacity to feel pain or suffering, the 18th Century English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, said: “the question is not Can they reason? or Can they talk? but “Can they suffer?” bit.ly/3FT3p1l #theyfeeltoo
Do animals have the capacity to feel? Sentience comes from the Latin word SENTIRE, which means to feel. For social species like lions, this includes the ability to form social bonds. As seen in our latest reel with siblings being able to play together freely in the wild. bit.ly/41SihFF #theyfeeltoo
What does Animal Sentience mean? Sentience comes from the Latin word SENTIRE,which means to feel. For social species like lions, this includes the ability to form social bonds. As seen in our latest reel with siblings being able to play together freely in the wild. bit.ly/41SihFF #theyfeeltoo
