Thank you all for coming on to my blog! I hope you will get something from this blog. Unless you cannot tell from the title, I’m talking about the circus and their special animals, but more importantly how they came to be. The circus industry is not all that it is cracked up to be.
“People who say this is cruel don't know what they are talking about…The elephants love it.” Bobby Roberts – Circus owner.
I feel that this comment is wrong as a) how does anyone really know how an elephant feels b) these elephants are being whipped and restrained from the moment they are caught out in the wild. How, you wonder, these elephants become these professional acrobatic elephants that they are? As soon as the wild elephant has been captured, it’s then tied up with some other elephants that are more experienced, and then taken (dragged) to the training ground. The still wild elephant is tied to a wooden frame or two tree trunks, being unable to move. The elephant is trying with all its power to break free, (whist it’s mahout is talking to it in a calm voice and beating the elephant with a stick) until he is too tired and gives up. It is then taken to a river to bathe and eat, but it is continually tied to a working elephant.
After a few weeks, it is released from the working elephant (still has the mahout and stick) and is allowed to start it’s real circus training. Circus elephants must additionally learn some tricks that are to be shown in the program later on. There are good and impressive elephant numbers, which enable the animals to show their strength and swiftness or rather their sensitivity. But there are also many bad circus acts, which show elephants performing exercises horribly unnatural for these animals. They include one and two footed handstands and elephants standing on their hind legs. Elephants do not seem to be comfortable in these positions.
Thank you again for reading my blog – please give me some feedback by saying if I have changed your views on circuses & if so how? Thanks!
Jess
i have always hated animals in circuses ithink it is cruel and wrong!!! I think that people should not train the animals to something that is horrible to their nature and their normal behaviour especiall under hot spotlights!
ReplyDeleteI agree; it is not what animals are ment for. They should be kept in the wild to live a good long life!
ReplyDeleteThis is so wrong! Animals are wild and should be left in peace! I have seen some of the things they do to them! It's horrific!!
ReplyDeleteI think forcing wild animals to do that is cruel. It is not what they are made for and of course they don't enjoy it! Who would enjoy being beaten and forced to do sonething you don't want to?
ReplyDeleteI agree, it is not fair to make animals do this! How do they know they like it, they can't talk!Animals are made to be free not to be whipped in a circus!
ReplyDeletei think that making animnals work in a circus is ok,because they may enjoy it,but i also disagree because they shouldnt be making them do anythink they should be outin the wild where they belong
ReplyDeleteI think it's horrible how animals are treated in circuses, and something needs to be done about it.
ReplyDeletebeating a wild animal is cruel and horrible. i think that circus animals are badly mal-nurished and mis-treated. the handlers do not care that they hurt the animal-as long as it does what they want.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen animals perform in the circus and think it is very cruel
ReplyDeleteI have always hated the fact that they are mostly in small cages and raley let out other than for their shows. Its not fair! :'(
ReplyDeleteI have always loved animals and never really understood why people could get a thrill out of hurting them. YOu blog is really informative and has made me even more against animal cruelty
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, expolitation of animals MUST STOP! This would definitely put me off going to a circus, I am in full support of your advocacy of these poor animals.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely, circus acts is definatly a form of animal cruelty and it should stop im glad you have brought up something that most people dont notice though it is very important as any other.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the way elephants and other circus animals are treated. It is completely unnatural and cruel. Elephants are wild animals and should at least have normal interaction with other elephants, be able to get natural exercise (not including acrobatics training) and they should certainly not be harmed - hit whipped etc. in any way!
ReplyDeleteI think putting wild animals in a circus is wrong. The way they beat them and drag thm is cruel. I had already knew they used them in a circus but your post has made me feel stronger and ths issue! This must stop !
ReplyDeleteheyy, i totally agree, animal cruelty is sooo WRONG! i wouldn't go a circus if it had animals in it. i would enjoy much more knowing that i am watching a animal free circus. thank you for writing this blog to help me change my views further on animals in the circus
ReplyDeleteyou have definatly changed my veiws .... i am so against circuis animals now !! i dont know how people could be so cruel .. they are not letting the poor animals live their proper life ..
ReplyDeleteI deffinitely agree that cruelty to animals in animal circuses must stop as the animals really don't deserve it!
ReplyDeleteI am deffintely in favour of stopping this and am deffintely going to try and do my bit to help...
I agree that its not fair on the animals because as you mentioned the circus owners may say that the animals are happy but only the animal itself knows how it feels..
ReplyDeleteI definatley aggree that cathching wild elephants and then forcing them to train is very wrong. I believe that taking animals out of their normal habitat and training them to be in a circus that people go and see is wrong. I am really going to try and help to something about this.
ReplyDeleteI also feel vey strongly that the circus is an awful place for the animals to be and reading this blog has made me even more aware of the horrors that go on.
ReplyDeletei really like this blog, i think it's a great thing to write about. i agree, having animals in circuses is wrong, and should not be done. i hope this blog will help make something be done about it!
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i really think that this is a worthy cause, and i also dislike the way the circus use these animals. :)
ReplyDeleteI've always hated circuses but this blog made me think and I've never read anything so horrible! How could they do that to wild elephants?
ReplyDeleteIts so sad! Everybody always goes to the circus just for fun but dont realise what pain the animals are going through! When i went to the circus once we saw some caged animals and it was really upsetting because of sad they looked! Thank you for making more people aware of this cause!
ReplyDeletei've always hated animals forced into the circus, as its so cruel :( but i didnt realise they had to go through the whole process of being beaten and strapped to stronger elephants. this should stop now
ReplyDeleteAnimals beign kept in circus' is cruel and is a state of animal cruelty, which like all others should be banned. Your blog is really inspiring and helps people who think animals have a happy life at a circus realise its ot so great. Your blog definetley makes me want to do something about this hurrendous situation. xxx
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