Circuses: No Fun for Animals
Animal welfare organizations recorded many cases of animal atrocities while training circus animals. According to PETA, an animal rights organization declared circus animals are often harassed, and physical abuse has always been a way to train wild animals. Animal Welfare Act (AWA) does not allow any form of punishment that may cause animals are injured and regulates the treatment of animals in research and exhibition. However, the trainers still violate the law and use wild animals to make money and entertain people. Living in a big name is a stressful and painful experience for animals.
The behaviour of wild animals perpetuates animals abuse, inhuman care and distorted wildlife pictures. Ringing Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, an American travelling circus company claimed to support actively wild animals. However, animals in the circus “are routinely subjected to months on the road confined in small, barren cages.” [1] Additionally, “[t]hese animals often live in filthy and dilapidated enclosures or are chained in one position for the majority of the day.” [2]
Their living condition is poor, significantly, it is not a natural act for wild animals are chained and exist for human entertainment. Circus animals make outdated wildlife attitude permanent for animals’ happiness. Like Elisa Allen, the director of PETA said: “Captivity is a living hell for animals such as tigers and lions, and a circus environment can’t possibly meet their complex needs.” [3]
[1] Gary L. Francione, Animals, Property and Legal Welfarism: “Unnecessary” Suffering and the “Humane” Treatment of Animals, 46 Rutgers L. Rev. 721, 763 (1994); Humane Society of the United States, Circuses, http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/circuses/
[2] Humane Society of the United States, Circuses, http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/circuses/
[3] Brooks, L. (Dec. 2017). Scotland bans use of wild animals in travelling circuses. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/20/scotland-bans-use-of-wild-animals-in-travelling-circuses
