Say NO! To Any Circus With Animals!

source: http://www.circuses.com/

"Behind the scenes, elephant trainer Tim Frisco instructs would-be trainers how to dominate elephants and make them perform circus tricks. “Sink that hook into ’em. When you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention.” An elephant trumpets in agony as Frisco’s bullhook, with its sharp metal hook and spiked end, tears through her sensitive skin. Frisco, a Carson & Barnes elephant trainer, learned the trade from his father, a former trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus."

This is how elephants are trained to do the unnatural tricks that you see in circuses. I just watched the video of this "training" session. It was unbearable. Ringling Bros. is coming to Charleston, WV starting the 17th or 18th of this month, April. I personally know of someone, that many years ago, was a star with Ringling. He was an advocate for circuses without animals. The brutality that is heaped upon these helpless animals is overwhelming.

Elephants are not the only ones that endure this daily. The website that I listed is hard to look at, but very important. There are many, many websites that tell of the horrors that circus animals endure daily, and what happens to them when they can no longer perform. Please, please, do not spend your hard-earned money to facilitate the suffering of these animals. Go to the movies, take a walk, but please don't patronize the circus.

www.archive.org/details/CircusAbuse
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/185697/the_abuse_of_circus_animals.html