- TRUE STORIES (Video Link Below):
“After 3 years working with elephants in the circus, I can tell you that they live in
confinement and they are beaten all the time when they don’t perform properly.”
-Sworn testimony of former Ringling employee, Tom Rider
- When Ringling was in Jacksonville, Fla., Kenny, a 3-year-old elephant, was
obviously sick. According to the circus's animal care log, he was "not eating or
drinking" and was "bleeding from his rectum…had a hard time standing, was very
[shaky], walked very slowly." However, against veterinary advice, this seriously ill
baby elephant was forced into the ring for three shows. The log later noted that
Kenny "passed a large amount of blood from his rectum" and that at 11:30 p.m.,
"the elephant was dead."
That's not all: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investigators found large scars on the rear legs of Doc and Angelica,
two other baby elephants. The scars were from rope burns inflicted when Ringling ripped these babies away from their
mothers as infants. The USDA found that the handling of Doc and Angelica was in violation of the Animal Welfare Act and
"caused unnecessary trauma, behavioral stress, physical harm, and discomfort to these two elephants."
- Think, too, of Clyde, a once-healthy 2-year-old lion who was shipped to the U.S. all the way from
Spain. Ringling locked Clyde in a sweltering train boxcar. As the train crossed the Mojave Desert, the
temperature rose to 109°F. The circus trainmaster refused repeated requests to stop the train and
check on the lions in the terrible heat. When the train finally stopped, Clyde was lying on his side with
his tongue hanging out, and he was struggling for breath. He died within minutes.
The cause of Clyde's death was clearly heatstroke and dehydration. But brazen Ringling officials prohibited circus
employees from speaking to U.S. government officials investigating Clyde's death! Ringling even installed a set of water
misters in the lions' boxcars before government inspectors arrived at the scene in order to create the illusion that the circus
had been providing the lions with relief from the heat.
- Next in this litany of horrors is Benjamin, a 4-month-old elephant. During a stop in Texas, Benjamin
drowned in a pond. Elephants are usually excellent swimmers, but Benjamin had never learned to
swim because he had been taken away from his mother when he was little. One of Ringling's handlers
followed the baby elephant into the pond and began poking him with a bullhook—an instrument that
Benjamin had learned to fear—and forced him into deeper water. In water above his head and
fearing he would be beaten, Benjamin drowned.
That is the truth of the Ringling Bros, circus!
COMPASSION FOR ALL BEINGS!
- ANIMAL CRUELTY IS NOT FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT!!!
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