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There was once a tiger Bo who had lived his whole life in a zoo in africa. He was safe, well fed, and sometimes the trainers would even let him in to different areas. This kept him content. One day the zoo keepers brought in a new tiger named Zatch, but this tiger wasn’t like the other tigers. Zatch had come from a zoo called the wild.

Nothing that the zoo keepers did would make the new tiger happy. When it was feeding time he was upset about being fed. Zatch didn’t like his cage, and refused to say how nice of a home it was. Even the nice other cages that all the other tigers were happy to wait in while their home was cleaned did not please him.

One day Bo asked Zatch why he was always so upset when everything was handed to him. So Zatch looked back to Bo and told him that he would rather catch the meat himself, because it was what he was made to do. He told him, that he would rather find his own shelter because than he chose it himself, but the thing that got to him the most was the cage. Zatch remembered a whole jungle that was his home, and if he didn’t like it, he could move. He also remembered poachers, but he would rather face them alone than be somebody’s pet.

All of this confused Bo, he couldn’t understand why anybody would miss so much work and risk. Bo had never been outside of his cage, and from the sounds of things he didn’t want to. But Zatch on the other hand understood, that facing the dangers himself gave him a right to freedom. Zatch was accustom to the more dangerous world that comes with owning ones self.

Bo had known only a cage, and had no desire to learn another way of life. He would rather be owned than have to take care of himself. Zatch however knew that freedom, work, and risk were inseparable. Bo would never know freedom, and eventually Zatch would find his way out of the zoo, and back to his dangerous wild freedom.