- Circuses, Zoos, Animals in Entertainment
Circus animals are often cruelly abused and are NEVER allowed any resemblance of a “normal” life. These animals do not perform
tricks for you because they want to; it is a completely unnatural behavior for them. They do these tricks because they are afraid not
to. The usual “training method” of choice is a club or a long stick with a metal hook at the end that they beat the animal with.
Undercover video of this cruel abuse is readily available, and former employees of Ringling Brother’s Circus have come forward
and described the inhumane and intolerable abuse they witnessed of the animals in Ringling Brother’s care. When you go to any
circus or show that features animal acts you endorse the inhumane and horrific terrorizing of these noble and beautiful
animals.
Click Here: Zoos: Pitiful Prisons
Click here: Ringling Brothers Circus
- "Children, who are naturally fond of animals, would have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the circus if they knew of the
suffering these animals endure for a fleeting moment of so- called amusement." Taken from Circuses.com
- "Transporting wild animals from town to town is inherently stressful for these animals, as it requires that they be separated from
their families and social groups and intensively confined or chained for extended periods of time." Click here for article
- Used and Discarded/Movie Actors
- After movie stardom often comes retirement to a lavish estate where others will cater to your
every need--but only if you're a human. Animal actors like the great apes seen in movies as silly
sidekicks and in television commercials have a much less lavish retirement plan, to say the
least.
Chimpanzees can live to be 60 years old, but their usefulness to the entertainment industry is
usually over by age 8, when they become too strong to be managed. Trainers may have the
chimps' teeth pulled or fit them with shock collars under their clothes so that they can continue to
control even mature chimpanzees with enormous strength. When they are no longer amenable
to discipline, and beatings have become too routine to affect them, the apes are typically
discarded.
As a result, former ape actors may spend decades in small, barren cages or be sold to poorly run roadside zoos. These chimps
may be bred repeatedly to provide a continuous supply of newborns for the entertainment industry.
Chubbs was found (a chimpanzee used in Planet of the Apes and in the Chimp Channel series), languishing in a deplorable
roadside zoo in Texas called Amarillo Wildlife Refuge.
Hollywood uses animal actors for all they are worth, abandoning them when they become too aggressive or when a certain species
becomes passé. Instead of abusing and discarding animals, moviemakers should use the many cruelty-free alternatives available
to them, and leave wild animals in peace.
- Demand Rights for Animals and Live Cruelty-Free!!!
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