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Should Circus Animals Be Banned?
Kim CollinsMrs. PughEnglish 12
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Transport and Housingof Animals
• In the wild– native to lands other than North
America. – Where they live, they have
adapted to their own specific climate over millions of years.
– free to gather food however they choose, whether it be eating plants and leaves like the elephant, or pursuing it's hunting instincts, like the Tiger.
– Can walk around on the dirt, take baths in water, hide in the grass, climb or rub up against a tree.
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Transport and Housing of Animals
• In the Circus– Spend approximately 50 weeks of
the year traveling around the country, where the climate is controlled by where they may be.
– from brutal heat to frigid cold. – fed predetermined diets at
specific times, which may consist of food pellets, dried grass that is far from fresh, and meat that may be rotting.
– Rarely get to touch anything but metal cages, trucks, and railroad cars.
– May never touch a tree.– Spend days at a time chained in
cramped train cars or trucks, eating and sleeping in their own excrement.
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Training of Animals
• Training is often done behind in secret behind closed doors
• Training methods– Whips– bullhook (a wooden stick with a
sharp, pointed hook at the end) intended to cause pain and puncture the skin
– Electric Shock– Tight collars– Trainers drug some animals to
make them “manageable” and surgically remove the teeth and claws from others.
– Sticks, axe handles, baseball bats, metal pipes (weapons are used to hit and beat restrained animals in order to break their spirits and show them "who’s boss.“)
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Treatment of Domestic animals used
• Horses were punched in the face and severely whipped.
• Dogs were only fed when they performed properly and were skin and bones under their fur.
• Cats were forced to jump from high platforms onto small pillows.
• Trainers who appeared to be petting dogs during the show were really inflicting a painful pinch.
• Records of horses that were reduced to skeletal remains
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Performances
• Perform unnatural tricks that are often damaging to their bodies.
• elephant responds to verbal commands from a trainer carrying a bullhook
• Things animals are forced to perform– Headstands– hind-leg stands– lying down– tub-sitting– Crawling– twirling
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Health• Animals often display neurotic
behavior, such as swaying and head-bobbing, from boredom and severe stress.
• Suffer from painful foot and joint disease, a leading cause of premature death in captive elephants, from standing too long on hard surfaces and in their own waste.
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Health• Elelephants in Circuses Frequently
contract or are exposed to a human strain of tuberculosis (TB).
• TB is known to thrive in the cramped, close quarters that they are forced to endure day in and day out.
• In several instances, elephants known to be suffering from TB have been used to give rides to the public.
• Still give rides to young children
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Public Safety• Since 1990, 57 people have been killed • more than 120 seriously injured by captive
elephants.• more than 123 documented attacks on
humans by captive large cats in the United States, 13 of which resulted in fatal injuries.
• November 18, 2005: A volunteer clown for the Shriners was sentenced to four years in prison and eight years of extended supervision for using a computer to facilitate a sex crime with the intent of having sex with a 14-year-old girl. The president of the Owensboro Shrine Clowns defended the man's character.
• May 25, 2004: Thomas Allen Riccio, a circus clown who performs under the name “Spanky” with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was arrested in Fayetteville, N.C., and charged with 10 counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. found 2,000 pictures on Riccio’s computer, of child pornography that included girls as young as five years old
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Tyke an circus elephant gunned down.
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Siegfried & Roy Tiger Attack• On October 3, 2006
Montecore, a 600-pound white tiger, acted on instinct, like a typical wild animal, and attacked his long-time handler, Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, in a horrific incident that played out in front of a live audience at The Mirage in Las Vegas.
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