Sources: DoSomething.org, Filson Historical society, ARFF, In Defense of Animals, PeTA, Squiddo.com, RinglingBeatsAnimals.com
- The use of animals in entertainment has already been restricted or banned in cities across the U.S. and in countries worldwide. For instance, Bolivia, Greece, Israel, Peru, and Sweden have banned the use of all animals in circuses, and Britain has prohibited the use of wild animals in traveling circuses…BECAUSE IT’S SLAVERY!
- Standard circus industry training tools used on animals include bullhooks, whips, clubs, and electric prods.
-Physical punishment has always been the standard training method to make circus animals perform.
- Every major circus that uses animals has been cited for violating the minimal standards of care set forth in the United States Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
-Many animal circuses like Ringling Brothers and Cole Brothers have been repeatedly charged by the USDA and ASPCA.
-Animals in circuses spend about 11 months of the year traveling.
- When captive elephants and felines fight back, attacks on humans in the U.S. have resulted in hundreds of injuries, many resulting in death.
- Other animals like bears, horses and dogs that are subjected to the same brutal “training” as the wild animals.
-At least 24 elephants have died at the hands of Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers since 1992.
- Trainers drug some animals to make them “manageable” and surgically remove the teeth and claws of others.
- Animals enslaved in the circus are subjected to brutal “training” techniques.
-During the off-season, animals used in circuses may be housed in traveling crates or barn stalls— some are even kept in trucks. Such interminable confinement has harmful physical and psychological effects on animals.
-In the wild, elephants, felines, primates, and most other wild animals found in circus settings, including lions and tigers, are constantly on the move in their native habitats. In the circus, animals spend most of their time imprisoned in cages or chains.
thank you for the eye opener! Keep up the good work by bringing animal cruelty awareness to the forefront.
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We are protesting the cruel and horrendous way you treat your circus animals. They should not be kept in cages and paraded around for people’s enjoyment and your bottom line. You do not care as long as you make money. One day there will be no circuses because of people like us
no living being should be in chains. God did not create living being so they have no freedom. we are in 2013, we are not savages anylonger.
Lisa, you are great and always my hero. This work was hard, I know how you feel about animals and collecting so many pictures that break your heart is extremely difficult. I had to close my eyes on some. I do not want to cry, saw enough to be angry. So you made me angry. If I only find now any circus page on Internet, I am going to give them shit, until they block me. This is what I do now to WAZA page, IMATA blocked me.
As always Lisa,, very well done with all the heart and soul of a true activist who can actually see through the eyes of our animals. GodBless you my sister
Thank you for addressing this ongoing issue of URGENCY. Countries are beginning to place bans, but there is much more work to be done to provide relief to so many innocent, sentient beings who are living in deplorable environments without even the most basic of rights. I have been writing about the subject as well. A link to my page on Circus Animal Welfare is below. Many Blessings! ~Gerean Pflug for The Animal Spirits
http://animalspirits222.wordpress.com/category/circus-animal-welfare/
Well done article on your blog.
I pray that everyone who reads this article makes the right choice when the circus come to thier town and that is to NOT go! If you are purchasing tickets to the circus then YOU are part of the cruelty and abuse. If you do decide to go to the circus make sure its for the same reason i go and thats to PROTEST! Ringling Bros is coming to Philidelphia PA on Feb, 13,2013 Meet me and plenty of others thier and help us raise our voices speaking out against the cruelty and abuse hope to see you there! Please remember WE are thier voice!
I’ve been an animal rights advocate supporting the protection and the freeing of all animals for more than 30 years. Captivity for all animals must end now! Animals should live freely as God intended and not be exploited for human selfish reasons $$$$! People are just horrible!!!
ENDING CAPTIVITY AND ENDING CRUELTY TOWARDS ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORLD IS NEEDED NOW!!
I’ve been an animal advocate for the protection of animals, ending animal cruelty and ending the captivity of animals for more than 30 years! Exploiting animals for human selfishness $$$$ is UNETHICAL, INHUMANE AND ABSOLUTELY CRUEL AND BARBARIC! ALL THIS MUST END AND ANIMALS SHOULD LIVE FREE FROM HARM WITHOUT BORDERS AS GOD INTENDED!!
That’s a long time Renee- thanks for all you do for animals!!!
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Heres 14 MORE reasons why you shouldnt go to the circus!