可哀相な

Captured and harshly trained to perform tricks. What's the point?
Can we truly enjoy the performance seeing how it's on a tight leash?
This picture reminded me a bigger performing monkey inside Sunshine 60 in Ikebukuro wearing a tiny kimono and doing meaningless flips. The monkey was choked by the trainer time and again almost every few seconds during the show without doing anything inappropriate. It was really tough to watch and I had to leave quickly. I wonder why they need to have that inside a shopping mall to begin with? It would be very bad for kids to think that's the right way to treat an animal. I hope kids don't go home and start putting leashes on their cats and force them to do tricks!