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I agree animals should be trained properly not beaten when the don't do what they're supposed to do!

I Have only gone to the circus once, and I was too small to think about all this stuff.
I really agree, circus living conditions are awful and animals don't deserve to be treated badly just to perform for the pleasure of humans.

I've never been to a circus (maybe once when I was little) and I don't even plan to go to one. I knew about how do people treat animals there, you can even see that in cartoons! I really wonder why didn't anyone do something about it yet. If I ever went to a circus with animals, I'm sure I would just sit there and think about the poor animals, until everyone else would be laughing and clapping at the show. We can also see animals doing some great things in the wild. I don't see what's so special about that shows anyways. The way people there treat the animals is just too mean and there should be a law that prohibits such things.

I watched Two Brothers as well, SpecialK. It was an interesting movie and showed just what's happening to animals in these conditions. (I don't remember what happened after that scene though. I was about 12-13 when I last watched it and only remember the big points. You should watch the rest if you can, though.)

I disagree with circuses. I went to one when I was 5 (I think. No idea) and I recall not liking it. (Maybe it was the clown.) Whatever the reason was, I'm not going to another one. Many of the animals there, specifically the monkeys, bears, and big cats, aren't meant to even be around people and trained. People have been training elephants for centuries, but for work and travel purposes, not for balancing and shows. Its incredibly awful.

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woofwoofwoof31168 wrote:I agree animals should be trained properly not beaten when the don't do what they're supposed to do

Dogs, yes. They should be trained properly. Elephants, if its in the right conditions and for the right thing, maybe. Bears, big cats, and the rest of them shouldn't be trained AT ALL.

I've been to a circus before, Barnum and Bailey's (Sorry for bad spelling if that's not right). But I was still a little kid then, I had no idea of what went on. That was until I picked up the book Sheep. It was a book that went through the life of a border collie wanting to return to his farm, but he was subjected to the horrors of performing at a circus in part of it. He was named "Sparky" while he was there, and the other animals in the circus told him the last Sparky had been beaten to death. This was my face when I read that- O_O. Ever since then I haven't attended one circus. Not one. I'm not against all circuses, however. Like you mentioned, some circuses are completely fine, and some use animals like dogs that are treated and trained with respect and kindness, treating them as well as ever and making sure they're happy. Only a few circuses do that, though. That makes me feel so sorry for them. And yet some people know about the way the animals are treated and just don't care because they want to see it. I bet if they'd been the animals they would've changed their minds if a microsecond. Anyways, thanks for viewing c:. I hope you agree with me.

Several times I went to the Barnum & Bailey circus. I was really young, with a high possibility of me going there even since I was 2, even though I don't remember being that young.

My most memorable time is when I was about 4 or 5 and I rode on an elephant in an enclosed area outside the circus tent because they were having this elephant riding thing. I think I rode it with somebody else because I was very young, but I don't remember who. Maybe it was my mom, who I remember being there. I don't quite know.

Anyways, the elephant walked around and stuff like that. I loved animals and I still do, so obviously I enjoyed riding the elephant a lot. I looked at the elephant and I didn't see ANY bullhook marks or even any sort of injury marks whatsoever on the elephant. In fact, I've never seen injury marks on any of the elephants nor the other animals that I remember seeing. They just looked like normal, healthy animals.

Yes, I know well that bullhooks do, in fact, exist. However, I don't think it's as bad as many PETA and HSUS supporters think. I mean, if an elephant got hit by a bullhook and it hurt really badly, don't you think that the elephant would try to attack the person with the bullhook in his/her hands? I mean, an elephant has enough power to easily stomp a human to death if they wanted to.

Same with the tigers, lions, and bears. They could all kill a human easily if they wanted to.

That's just my opinion.

laika_wolf wrote:Abusing wild animals is really the only way to get them to do the unnatural tricks that they're forced to do. Besides, even if they didn't beat their animals, the circus life isn't a good one for any animal.

But being beaten isn't good for them, doing those tricks isn't good for them.

I think all in all animals just shouldn't perform at the circus.

Opinion.