Animal Cruelty Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Sarah who lived in a small house with her parents. Close to her hut was a deep thick forest that was home to many animals including Sheeba, the deer, Reno, the hippopotamus, Tania the sheep and Bounty, the Lion. Sarah knew all of them since they were her only friends in the neighborhood. Everyone else was much older than herself. Sarah would wake up early each day to feed her friends some breadcrumbs, biscuits and water. Sheeba and Tania would spend the whole day with her. Life was merrier on this side of the forest. Everyone lived happily and people were kind and compassionate. They always treated animals benevolently and not even a single soul in the animal world had ever been hurt by humans. Their rights were respected wholeheartedly in fact animals took them for granted since they had never been robbed of what they considered their privileges by birth. Freedom, right to live and right to adequate food and water were things that no animals ever gave much thought to since they were granted these rights on a silver platter. Life for them was beautiful.

But on the other side of the forest, things were not so perfect. There was a large corporation, Total animals Inc. that was headed by a cruel man named Simon. Simon thought he was good to animals since he owned many himself but the treatment he meted out to them was awful. Very few people knew this but Simon had been in the business of exporting deer and sheep fur to wealthier countries. This business had turned him into...

By all means, Simon was a millionaire who apparently loved animals since he would always be on the lookout for innocent stranded animals. Just a few months back, Simon hit the jackpot when government decided to privatize the City Zoological Garden. This zoo was the oldest and most famous garden of its kind in this part of the world and people would come from around the country to see the collection of rare animals including the white elephants and Indian Tigers. With privatization news breaking out, Simon realized this was chance of a lifetime for him. He could make tremendous profits by buying the ownership rights of this zoo and overseeing the administrative work here. If he could get access to vast collection of rare species, he could always start some other profitable business from it, like exporting their teeth and skin or selling the weaker ones to laboratories for animal testing. All these plans were brewing up in his mind. Government did not know of his cruel intentions and with little effort, Simon became the owner and administrative chief of the zoo.
Sarah woke up early that morning and realized that Sheeba and Tania were nowhere to be seen. What could possibly be the reason, she wondered. It was very uncharacteristic of them to not visit her early in the morning. Sarah decided to wait a little more but her friends had simply vanished. This was a signal that something was seriously wrong. By mid-day, Sarah had scanned the entire forest but all four of her friends were missing and surprisingly no one knew…