Animals are frequently exploited in many different ways purely for human entertainment. You can help to end this exploitation and cruelty by choosing not to watch any spectacle involving performing animals and choosing not to patronize any place that exploits animals by using them as photo props or by making them perform.
Places such as circuses and animal shows and marine parks force animals to entertain their audiences while contributing to the mental stress of these captive animals. Animals forced into entertainment, like cycling bears, golfing orang utans and fire-hoop jumping tigers, endure enormous stress and pain. Their training methods include beatings, food deprivation, drugging and painfully removing or impairing their teeth and claws. Often, they are not given adequate housing or care and live in appalling conditions when not performing. Dolphins and orcas (killer whales) suffer particularly badly in captivity, for they are extremely social, intelligent and active animals and roam large distances in the wild.
The best and most exciting circus acts depend exclusively on human skills and talents to entertain, and never use animals as part of their acts. Please choose not to patronize any place that forces animals to perform tricks, and never visit marine parks that keep dolphins and whales.
Many exotic places also feature animal photography, where people on holiday can take photos with as baby monkeys, gibbons, snakes and iguanas as photo props. This involves immense suffering for the animals involved. Most of the baby animals being paraded on the streets for tourists to take their photo with have been taken from the wild, their whole family being killed in the process. Some zoos also offer photography sessions with wild animals, subjecting the animals to unnatural stresses. Never pay to have your photos taken with wild animals.
If you want to learn more about how to help stop animal abuse in these situations, drop by the Infobus today,
12 August, from 1730h to 1930h, where ACRES (Animal Concerns Research & Education Society) will be hosting sessions about how you can help these animals in captivity.
See you at the Infobus!
