The Circus Is In Town

[lizbud]

I used to love to go when I was a child and didn't know any better.
Didn't know the animals there were real creatues that felt pain & fear.
I didn't realize how they were denied their right to live with dignity in
their own habitat and not spend their whole lives as "props" for human
entertainment. It is shameful to treat any animal this way.


Their latest "show business gimmick" is to promote & show off a baby
elephant named Barack (1 yr old) After he is "trained" of course.
How can this be anything but abuse? Thank God, this is the last day
they will be in Indy.

http://current.com/news/91980151_exp...n-circuses.htm


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cus-stars.html

[Cataholic]

I don't go to the circus, and must even admit that the Zoo causes me some problems. <sigh> Sometimes, knowledge isn't power....its pain.

[Lilith Cherry]

The only good circus is Cirque du Soleil with only humans involved. I agree with you that circuses with animals are very cruel!

[sana]

Oh! My God! The pictures showed barbarians torching poor helpless BABY elephants! This is too crazy! I hate this, I was going to attend a circus, I didn't know this by that time, I am never going to a circus now! They'll lose money and time if people boycott circuses! This is way too crazy to be done! But they crossed the crazy line!

[sana]

I just watched the movie, the people were soo cruel! I hate circus men now! Cruel idiots! Wish this would happen to them too one day!

[K9karen]

Never been to a circus and never will. Haven't been to a zoo for decades.

[chocolatepuppy]

Haven't been to a circus since I was a child. Would never go to one as an adult, I knew better by then.

[lizbud]

I wish you all would tell a friend about the way animals are treated
and "trained" in a circus enviorment & discourage them from going. These
people should be rewarded for this behavior.

If you have ever read the propaganda promoted on Ringling Brothers website
(as an example) they say they don't make the elephants do any thing that
isn't already part of their natural behavior. Check out the "training" schedule
of the babies in these pictures. Does that look natural to you?

They should be charged with animal abuse. It's time to outlaw this disgraceful practice and have the circus use human performers only.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cus-stars.html

[sana]

Like they say in Urdu, taubah hoti hay! (For God's sakes what the heck [type thing]) I mean I never thought before humans could reach this much cruelty! This is way too wrong, those poor babies did nothing to them!

[moosmom]

I protest the circus every year when it comes to town. I haven't been to the circus since I was a little girl.

[chocolatepuppy]

I wish you all would tell a friend about the way animals are treated
and "trained" in a circus enviorment & discourage them from going.

Consider it done.

[Twisterdog]

I, too, used to LOVE going to the circus when I was a child. It was a chance to see animals I loved, up close.

However, when I got older and wiser, I realized how appalling circuses are. When my son was young, I would only take him to circuses and carnivals that did NOT have animals. And I indeed told all my friends why I would not go with them to circuses with animals, and some of them refused to go as well, then.

[Alysser]

I have never been to a circus, and I never plan on going. Zoos, however, I have no problem with.

[blue]

Why hasnt this thread been closed yet.

This is a pet site.

Puck's hunting thread was closed because "this is a pet site' and he asked before starting the thread and posted warnings about his links to pics. Sana's Eid thread was closed because "this is a pet site" and she never even posted links to pics or videos.

Liz posts a link to offensive videos and nobody has called for this thread to be closed like the others, why?

Im not watching the video Liz wants us all to watch, but Ive never been to a Circus either so I dont have a guilty conscience either way.

[Grace]

Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.