How old should a child be to swim with dolphins in Mexico?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock. That's kind of weird.

It actually is torture for a dolphin. It us the equivalent of a person living in a closet. You can survive but it would be awful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're going to Cancun soon and we can't wait to swim with the dolphins!! Our hotel has them and our room overlooks the dolphin pool! We can see them as we wake up each morning. My 8 year old cannot wait!! As for the those who think it is cruel, that is your opinion, so don't do it. The industry is there and we plan to partake in it. I really don't care how they got their dolphins, nor do I care how they slaughtered the cow from which I got the filet I ate the other night. They are just animals, and as another poster put it, too bad for them...but good for us!! I love my red meat and I love to see animals in captivity!!! Yay!!

The new dolphin pools at some resorts in Cancun and Riviera Maya are way too small and shallow for the dolphins to have any life. They are bored out of their minds and miserable. Many people are boycotting the resorts that build these little dolphin pools. Check it out on Tripadvisor. I don't have links right now, but I've seen videos and read enough. At least try to see them in the ocean not in a prison!

Oh, I have done my research, thanks very much! Tripadvisor rates this hotel very highly. Yes there are a few lone people complaining about the dolphins, but it is miniscule. The hotel we are staying at is brand new, beautifully situated, and highly rated by the patrons. Look up Hyatt Ziva in Cancun. It is currently the #4 all inclusive hotel in Cancun. So I guess people don't mind the dolphins so much, huh? So for those of you who choose to boycott, we are glad! More rooms for us to choose from!!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g150807-d642781-Reviews-Hyatt_Zilara_Cancun-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html

Wow. You are an objectively horrible person. I feel bad for your children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're going to Cancun soon and we can't wait to swim with the dolphins!! Our hotel has them and our room overlooks the dolphin pool! We can see them as we wake up each morning. My 8 year old cannot wait!! As for the those who think it is cruel, that is your opinion, so don't do it. The industry is there and we plan to partake in it. I really don't care how they got their dolphins, nor do I care how they slaughtered the cow from which I got the filet I ate the other night. They are just animals, and as another poster put it, too bad for them...but good for us!! I love my red meat and I love to see animals in captivity!!! Yay!!

The new dolphin pools at some resorts in Cancun and Riviera Maya are way too small and shallow for the dolphins to have any life. They are bored out of their minds and miserable. Many people are boycotting the resorts that build these little dolphin pools. Check it out on Tripadvisor. I don't have links right now, but I've seen videos and read enough. At least try to see them in the ocean not in a prison!

Oh, I have done my research, thanks very much! Tripadvisor rates this hotel very highly. Yes there are a few lone people complaining about the dolphins, but it is miniscule. The hotel we are staying at is brand new, beautifully situated, and highly rated by the patrons. Look up Hyatt Ziva in Cancun. It is currently the #4 all inclusive hotel in Cancun. So I guess people don't mind the dolphins so much, huh? So for those of you who choose to boycott, we are glad! More rooms for us to choose from!!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g150807-d642781-Reviews-Hyatt_Zilara_Cancun-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html\

/And 40 years ago, people were saying 'buy ivory, it's so beautiful and nothing compares to it' . Selfish entitled bitch, you are. You'll realize it someday, just not today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people who cae some much about the dolphins... do you care about the mistreatment of workers in the vacation areas of developing countries. Not saying you shouldn't go, but there is a lot of talk about how some people are not treated right when the native people go to work for large corporations that have set up a tourism market in developing countries.

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Rich, spoiled people care more about animals than humans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're going to Cancun soon and we can't wait to swim with the dolphins!! Our hotel has them and our room overlooks the dolphin pool! We can see them as we wake up each morning. My 8 year old cannot wait!! As for the those who think it is cruel, that is your opinion, so don't do it. The industry is there and we plan to partake in it. I really don't care how they got their dolphins, nor do I care how they slaughtered the cow from which I got the filet I ate the other night. They are just animals, and as another poster put it, too bad for them...but good for us!! I love my red meat and I love to see animals in captivity!!! Yay!!

The new dolphin pools at some resorts in Cancun and Riviera Maya are way too small and shallow for the dolphins to have any life. They are bored out of their minds and miserable. Many people are boycotting the resorts that build these little dolphin pools. Check it out on Tripadvisor. I don't have links right now, but I've seen videos and read enough. At least try to see them in the ocean not in a prison!

Oh, I have done my research, thanks very much! Tripadvisor rates this hotel very highly. Yes there are a few lone people complaining about the dolphins, but it is miniscule. The hotel we are staying at is brand new, beautifully situated, and highly rated by the patrons. Look up Hyatt Ziva in Cancun. It is currently the #4 all inclusive hotel in Cancun. So I guess people don't mind the dolphins so much, huh? So for those of you who choose to boycott, we are glad! More rooms for us to choose from!!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g150807-d642781-Reviews-Hyatt_Zilara_Cancun-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html

I am staying at that hotel soon as well. It looks gorgeous. I hesitated when I heard about the dolphins, but because the hotel is so gorgeous, I am overlooking it. Will just get a room that doesn't overlook the dolphin pool and pretend it isn't there. The property is only a year old and everything is new, so very nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people who cae some much about the dolphins... do you care about the mistreatment of workers in the vacation areas of developing countries. Not saying you shouldn't go, but there is a lot of talk about how some people are not treated right when the native people go to work for large corporations that have set up a tourism market in developing countries.

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Rich, spoiled people care more about animals than humans

This post isn't about the mistreatment of humans (which I find repulsive btw), it's about animals.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock. That's kind of weird.

It actually is torture for a dolphin. It us the equivalent of a person living in a closet. You can survive but it would be awful.

What?

We did a dolphin encounter at blue lagoon in the Bahamas. We did not ride the Dolphins. The dolphins are not in pools or tanks. Rather, they are in a huge lagoon (multiple interconnected lagoons actually). You sit on the dock while the trainer calls them over. The trainers talk about the Dolphins, and you walk away having learned something. Our family got in waist deep water with the trainer and were able to touch the dolphin and assist the trainer with tricks/playing. The dolphin we interacted with actually had a baby that was swimming around nearby, and at several points the mother swam away to corral her baby boy and keep him close by. The instructor would explain that "that's what moms do, and their philosophy is to follow the lead of the dolphins so we had to wait for mom to finish whatever she needed to do before coming back." And she came back with her baby.

I researched the various venues to do this, and I specifically selected blue lagoon as opposed to Atlantis. I felt like the trainers loved the Dolphins and cared for them. They were free to swim all over the huge lagoon (which encircled the island).

Many dolphins living in captivity actually aren't equipped to live independently. Sea World rescues injured and ill animals all the time, and they keep the ones that can't survive on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock. That's kind of weird.

It actually is torture for a dolphin. It us the equivalent of a person living in a closet. You can survive but it would be awful.

What?

We did a dolphin encounter at blue lagoon in the Bahamas. We did not ride the Dolphins. The dolphins are not in pools or tanks. Rather, they are in a huge lagoon (multiple interconnected lagoons actually). You sit on the dock while the trainer calls them over. The trainers talk about the Dolphins, and you walk away having learned something. Our family got in waist deep water with the trainer and were able to touch the dolphin and assist the trainer with tricks/playing. The dolphin we interacted with actually had a baby that was swimming around nearby, and at several points the mother swam away to corral her baby boy and keep him close by. The instructor would explain that "that's what moms do, and their philosophy is to follow the lead of the dolphins so we had to wait for mom to finish whatever she needed to do before coming back." And she came back with her baby.

I researched the various venues to do this, and I specifically selected blue lagoon as opposed to Atlantis. I felt like the trainers loved the Dolphins and cared for them. They were free to swim all over the huge lagoon (which encircled the island).

Many dolphins living in captivity actually aren't equipped to live independently. Sea World rescues injured and ill animals all the time, and they keep the ones that can't survive on their own.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147416-d149861-r97624111-Blue_Lagoon_Island-Nassau_New_Providence_Island_Bahamas.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351756
"At Dolphin Encounters, Blue Lagoon Island, nine dolphins were live-captured from the waters in Abaco, The Bahamas."

They didn't "rescue" these animals they stole them from their pod. If you cannot understand how awful that is and how horribly they are treated...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock. That's kind of weird.

I wasn't saying it was. I was just responding to the PP that said that she didn't care how the animals that she eats or views are treated -- that it's "too bad for the animals" but great for her. I was questioning the line ... would she be okay if, after the show, they torture the animals to death? It just seems to me to be a weird position -- to proudly say that you don't care at all.
I don't know enough about dolphins to have a real opinion. I assume there are some places that do it better than others, and some places that do it worse (probably because it's cheaper and easier to do it worse, and the tourists don't know the difference.)

I will say that it's pretty easy to see dolphins in the wild. I've been on more than one catamaran trip where the dolphins just swim and jump along next to the boat -- the spinner dolphins think it's a really fun game to race the boats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock. That's kind of weird.

I wasn't saying it was. I was just responding to the PP that said that she didn't care how the animals that she eats or views are treated -- that it's "too bad for the animals" but great for her. I was questioning the line ... would she be okay if, after the show, they torture the animals to death? It just seems to me to be a weird position -- to proudly say that you don't care at all.
I don't know enough about dolphins to have a real opinion. I assume there are some places that do it better than others, and some places that do it worse (probably because it's cheaper and easier to do it worse, and the tourists don't know the difference.)

I will say that it's pretty easy to see dolphins in the wild. I've been on more than one catamaran trip where the dolphins just swim and jump along next to the boat -- the spinner dolphins think it's a really fun game to race the boats.

You people are ridiculous. They are animals for pete's sake. They are being taken care of...being fed, given medical care, etc. Let the tourists have their fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock. That's kind of weird.

It actually is torture for a dolphin. It us the equivalent of a person living in a closet. You can survive but it would be awful.

What?

We did a dolphin encounter at blue lagoon in the Bahamas. We did not ride the Dolphins. The dolphins are not in pools or tanks. Rather, they are in a huge lagoon (multiple interconnected lagoons actually). You sit on the dock while the trainer calls them over. The trainers talk about the Dolphins, and you walk away having learned something. Our family got in waist deep water with the trainer and were able to touch the dolphin and assist the trainer with tricks/playing. The dolphin we interacted with actually had a baby that was swimming around nearby, and at several points the mother swam away to corral her baby boy and keep him close by. The instructor would explain that "that's what moms do, and their philosophy is to follow the lead of the dolphins so we had to wait for mom to finish whatever she needed to do before coming back." And she came back with her baby.

I researched the various venues to do this, and I specifically selected blue lagoon as opposed to Atlantis. I felt like the trainers loved the Dolphins and cared for them. They were free to swim all over the huge lagoon (which encircled the island).

Many dolphins living in captivity actually aren't equipped to live independently. Sea World rescues injured and ill animals all the time, and they keep the ones that can't survive on their own.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147416-d149861-r97624111-Blue_Lagoon_Island-Nassau_New_Providence_Island_Bahamas.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351756
"At Dolphin Encounters, Blue Lagoon Island, nine dolphins were live-captured from the waters in Abaco, The Bahamas."

They didn't "rescue" these animals they stole them from their pod. If you cannot understand how awful that is and how horribly they are treated...

That trip advisor post is inaccurate. The poster didn't even do the encounter, so there's no way she walked over where the Dolphins actually are. She walked over the main bridge where the ferry drops you off, which is blocked off. The Dolphins aren't in fenced in pens. It might appear like that from a distance since the docks splinter off into many different smaller docks for each group. But those aren't pens; they are just square docks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're going to Cancun soon and we can't wait to swim with the dolphins!! Our hotel has them and our room overlooks the dolphin pool! We can see them as we wake up each morning. My 8 year old cannot wait!! As for the those who think it is cruel, that is your opinion, so don't do it. The industry is there and we plan to partake in it. I really don't care how they got their dolphins, nor do I care how they slaughtered the cow from which I got the filet I ate the other night. They are just animals, and as another poster put it, too bad for them...but good for us!! I love my red meat and I love to see animals in captivity!!! Yay!!

The new dolphin pools at some resorts in Cancun and Riviera Maya are way too small and shallow for the dolphins to have any life. They are bored out of their minds and miserable. Many people are boycotting the resorts that build these little dolphin pools. Check it out on Tripadvisor. I don't have links right now, but I've seen videos and read enough. At least try to see them in the ocean not in a prison!

Oh, I have done my research, thanks very much! Tripadvisor rates this hotel very highly. Yes there are a few lone people complaining about the dolphins, but it is miniscule. The hotel we are staying at is brand new, beautifully situated, and highly rated by the patrons. Look up Hyatt Ziva in Cancun. It is currently the #4 all inclusive hotel in Cancun. So I guess people don't mind the dolphins so much, huh? So for those of you who choose to boycott, we are glad! More rooms for us to choose from!!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g150807-d642781-Reviews-Hyatt_Zilara_Cancun-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html

As long as you get your awesome Facebook photo right? And your super special child gets their magical dolphin encounter at the expense of the dolphin's life! Your entitlement and ignorance are nauseating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're going to Cancun soon and we can't wait to swim with the dolphins!! Our hotel has them and our room overlooks the dolphin pool! We can see them as we wake up each morning. My 8 year old cannot wait!! As for the those who think it is cruel, that is your opinion, so don't do it. The industry is there and we plan to partake in it. I really don't care how they got their dolphins, nor do I care how they slaughtered the cow from which I got the filet I ate the other night. They are just animals, and as another poster put it, too bad for them...but good for us!! I love my red meat and I love to see animals in captivity!!! Yay!!

The new dolphin pools at some resorts in Cancun and Riviera Maya are way too small and shallow for the dolphins to have any life. They are bored out of their minds and miserable. Many people are boycotting the resorts that build these little dolphin pools. Check it out on Tripadvisor. I don't have links right now, but I've seen videos and read enough. At least try to see them in the ocean not in a prison!

Oh, I have done my research, thanks very much! Tripadvisor rates this hotel very highly. Yes there are a few lone people complaining about the dolphins, but it is miniscule. The hotel we are staying at is brand new, beautifully situated, and highly rated by the patrons. Look up Hyatt Ziva in Cancun. It is currently the #4 all inclusive hotel in Cancun. So I guess people don't mind the dolphins so much, huh? So for those of you who choose to boycott, we are glad! More rooms for us to choose from!!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g150807-d642781-Reviews-Hyatt_Zilara_Cancun-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html

As long as you get your awesome Facebook photo right? And your super special child gets their magical dolphin encounter at the expense of the dolphin's life! Your entitlement and ignorance are nauseating.

Why should I boycott the most highly rated family all inclusive in Cancun just because they have dolphins onsite? I head the beds are super comfortable. A good nights rest is more important than the silly dolphin issue.