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(34,053 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,675 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)I just wish circuses and the like would cease using animals. It is not our place to decide these exotic animals should suffer, regardless of how much money they bring in. We dont own them!!
Sorry - I always become upset when people use and abuse animals.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)I recall now that circuses without animal acts are few and far between. Thank heaven.
Fla Dem
(23,677 posts)Very happy for the elephants.
Niagara
(7,620 posts)For years, it made me angry that elephants were being mistreated. They were zapped with cattle prods, hit, yelled at, their hairs were singed off with blow torches and who knows what other forms of abuse these majestic creatures had to endure. I've been trying to educate other people for years exactly how elephants are "trained".
I'm so happy to see this group enjoying their retirement. I truly hope the days of animal abuse for human entertainment is done for.
*Trigger Warning* This video is upsetting and was uploaded in 2007 exposing a Ringling Brother's/Barnes Circus. I have no idea what year it was filmed.