Circuses Should Handle The Animal Abuse

Circuses:

How We Should Handle the Animal Abuse

When you see an elephant, tiger, or any wild animal, you should see them in the wild. You should see them in groups of the same species and running free, not balancing on their front legs or jumping through a fiery hoop. Wild animals are not indoor pets, a tiger is not a cute little kitten and an elephant definitely is not like a dog. Unfortunately circuses do not seem to grasp this concept. Circuses should be banned or shut down because they abuse their animals, they endanger the people and the animals in the circus, and the acts that the performers are involved in have caused many deaths.

Many of the circuses in the world do physically abuse their animals. The animals are trained to do the

Since the year 1990 there has been 123 big cat attacks on humans in the United States, thirteen alone ended in fatal injuries. As a natural response to being a big cat they are afraid of fire, but they are still forced to jump through fiery hoops. There have been incidents with the tigers being severely burned from the fire (“Facts”). Thomas Maccarte, also known as “Massarti, the Lion-tamer”, had previously lost an arm due to another circus accident. When Massarti went into the cage along with five very dangerous lions, it seemed like something was wrong and the black maned African lion that had bitten his hand only a few days before had been watching him. He had taken his eye off of “Tyrant” and then proceeded to slip and fall on the floor, “tyrant” seized him by the haunches and then the African lion latched onto his armless shoulder. After the smell of Massarti’s spilt blood washed over the other lions in the cage, their instincts took over and the Abyssinian lion seized him by the ribs. His favorite of the lions, this lion was five years old, caught him by the head, scalping him and the flesh had been hanging down down his neck

Like many others in 2004, a circus performer whose speciality was twirling on scarves 30 feet above the arena floor fell to her death when one of the scarves gave way. In 1870, a traveling circus that was called James Robinson & Co, was getting ready for a upcoming show. When they were going through the parade the band members, even though the ten of them had been warned not to, they climbed onto the roof of the lion cage to give a sneak peek performance. Due to the cage not being able to hold all ten of them they fell through the roof, seven out of the ten band members were killed as the parade-goers watch horrified. Then there was also an accident when a dwarf who was bouncing on a trampoline, and he bounced the wrong way off the trampoline and right into the mouth of Hilda the hippos mouth. Even though Hilda was a vegetarian, her gag reflex caused her to swallow Od the dwarf causing him to