Target: Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader of the United States Senate
Goal: Stop torturing animals for our entertainment and demand a ban on the use of exotic and wild animals in traveling circuses.
Don’t be fooled by the go-lucky attitude of circus entertainment. While it might look to be all fun and games—with animals jumping through hoops and standing on their heads—wild animals do not do these tricks of their own volition. They do them because they are afraid of what will happen if they don’t.
Elephants, bears, tigers, and other circus animals are subjected to extreme mental and physical duress throughout the training process. Animals are coerced into performing by being repeatedly beaten with whips, electric prods, and bullhooks—a stout pole with a sharp hook at one end. These wild animals are forced to travel, sometimes year round, with minimal access to veterinary care or other basic necessities. Elephants are shackled in chains, and big cats are shoved in cramped, filthy cages.
The Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act has recently been reintroduced to Congress. If passed, this act will prohibit the use of exotic and wild animals in traveling circuses and save thousands of elephants, tigers, lions, and tigers from abuse. Demand an end to this routine cruelty and encourage legislators to support the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Senator Schumer,
Elephants, bears, tigers, and other animals used in circuses suffer severe physical and psychological abuse. These animals are beaten with electric prods and sharp hooks in order to force them to perform unnatural tricks for human entertainment. When not performing, these wild animals are shackled in chains and shoved in small, filthy cages where they eat, sleep, and defecate.
There is, however, hope for circus animals. Although there is currently little int the way of legal protections for these animals—the government currently doesn’t even monitor training sessions for abuse—the recent reintroduction of the traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act brings with it the promise of an end to the suffering. If passed, this act will prohibit the use of exotic and wild animals in traveling circuses, carnivals, or parades.
We are asking you, Senator Schumer, to support this legislation and help bring an end to this cruel and unusual practice.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: ~Pawsitive~Candie_N
Find more humane ways to train them if it’s possible.
Ban them entirely.
Not possible. They are prisoners taken away from all they value in life. Just stop using any animal in a circus.
Agree with you Kerry! Who in the hell enjoys animals being torture & abuse? Not me!
Are ee still so barbaric and disgusting a species as to need to torture other animals for entertainment?
Boycott Shriner circus – tell them you won’t contribute to the Shriner’s Hospitals until they stop torturing nonhuman animals.
Thank you. I had no clue about this.
YOU PEOPLE ARE DEMENTED AND JUST PURE EVIL!!!!!!!!
Surely the petition should be to ban circuses with animals. Nothing else will do.
No animal deserves to be locked in a cage, forced to perform for sicko humans, be it with or without whips etc.
I signed this but no. A billion petitions will not help. This has been going on for DECADES.
There is no reason for circuses that torture, abuse innocent creatures.
Give them the same treatment, twice as hard for twice as long
THAT’S WHAT I SAY AN EYE FOR AN EYE!!!
I can’t believe animals are still being used as a form of entertainment. They were not put on this earth for our sorry asses to be used and abused as they jump through rings of fire or ride motorbikes, LEAVE THEM ALONE!! Unreal.
Discussing this is still legal! How can anybody go to a circus these days? People are sick in the head! How can families enjoy watching animals be tortured?
people don’t realize what these circuses will do for money. they have no problem hurting these animals that should be free to roam wild. all for the price of admission and a $10.00 hot dog. very sad.
Humans have lost all humanity – sickening – boycott – never attend these – vote with your wallets – animals are not our entertainment – sick!
THIS IS BARBARIC ANIMAL CRUELTY. THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.
Stop à la barbarie, laissez les animaux en paix
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES!! And Schumer cannot fix this.STOP GOING TO CIRCUSES AND THIS WILL STOP.
Yes stop going now!
STOP AND BAN THESE CIRCUSES NOW SCHUMER BY SUPPORTING the Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act!!! WHY WAS THIS NOT DONE DECADES AGO?????????????????????
The evil monsters running these places should be subjected to the same torture that they feel is acceptable to innocent beings!!!!
STOP USING AND ABUSING ANIMALS!!!! INSTEAD OF USING ANIMALS DO THE CIRCUS WITH YOURSELF!!!
Release circus animals to sanctuaries.
Ban circuses with animals!
Who are the stupid ignorant people who pay to see this torture of animals? In a so called civilized country no less. Stop this abuse now.
Em meu país, Brasil, por incrível que pareça é probido circo com animais.
Parem de torturá-los por diversão.
Tem direitos como nós!!
We should not be capturing animals, taking them out of their enviroment to be used for human entertainment. ALL circuses, zoo’s and aguariums should be shut down and banned. Send all captured animals to reputable sanctuarys. It is illegal to capture & torture humans so why is it ok to do it to animals.
this is out and out animal abuse. If the private citizen did this, we would be charged and rightfully so.
Businesses that do this is even more egrigious