Free Stuff Friday: "The Cruelest Show on Earth" Tee! July 24, 2009

Hey im going to the circus are you?

" No, i cant bare looking at a tourchured soul from a row of 300 people, knowing i can't heal it's pain or compfort it when its terrified of the electric prod. and besides, clowns scare me."

"omg i cant believe you are going 2 a circus!! so many animals die because of circuses!! here, come over to my house and i will show you all the terrible things that these people do to the adorable elephant and lions!! after you watch this cruel video tell me if you still want to go to the circus!!"

tht is what i would say to someone that wanted to go to a circus!!

I have always hada sinking feeling about the Circus, those clowns always look like they are up to something! Now there is proof.Those poor ellies!!! I will never let my kids go and now I have a reason to shout it out. Watch out for those circus people they really are FREAKS!

You go to a circus you support animal cruelty. How would you be able to live with yourself knowing you helped support the torture and beating of innocent animals all for a quick laugh? I'm truely ashamed and let down, cause life ain't no circus for those elephants.

Hey, you. Going to a circus? So you can get a whole bunch of enjoyment in your life, and have lots of fun. Well I bet you didn't know those animals get abused, and tortured so you do get that enjoyment. Or maybe, you did know, and didn't think it was a big deal. Well, think again. Picture you being abused, hit across the face with a whip, then picture you having to go in front of a bunch of super loud people, and forced to perform, dressed in some ridiculous outfit. Animals have feelings, just like us humans, and it makes them sad. It isn't right. At all.

The circuses may be silly, lighthearted, and fun for you, but think about it, are they really fun for the animals? At the circus, animals are deprived of their most basic needs. They are almost always confined and tied with ropes or shackles for minimum mobility. The animals are forced into doing painful and uncomfortable tricks while their trainers jab them with bullhooks, whip them, or shock them with electric prods in their most sensitive areas. How would you feel if someone had to take your baby away from you before you could even see them? Elephant babies are often taken away from their mothers at birth and are also forced to perform. Most circus animals' lifespans are cut terribly short because of all this. So rethink your decision to go to the circus, do you really want to support a show that tortures these innocent animals? Just remember this: animals have rights too.

(Sorry its so long guys, I couldn't really make it any shorter while still saying everything that I needed to say. By the way, that shirt is the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. :D )

If you think it is cute for the animals to do tricks, try stepping into there shoes. Big animal, normally kept in the wild, having to be taken away to somewhere scary. Then being hurt and more scared just for someone to whip you for not doing an unnaturaltrick. Try that year after year after year and see how you would feel. Being cruel to animals is not a show, go see something without poor animals.

My little brother went to the circus with my dad (they made the plans while I was out of town..) and I told them that 'An elephant without a circus is like a person without a slave plantation - the circus is extremely cruel and beats the animals to the point where they will do whatever is asked of them, just to avoid the unneccesary and abusive things that trainers put them through daily (much like what slaves went through)."

The shirt is sooo cute by the way! (:

If I had a say, this is what I would say;
"Hey, so you're going to the circus right?" "Why are you going? WHAT?!?! Because it's FUN?! It sure ain't for the animals, I'm telling you. Do you know how they treat the animals? They lock them up in cages, and then beat them and torture them in ways that would have you screaming for death had you been in their place. All this for a few bucks. How would you like it if they locked YOU up in a tiny cage, beat you and torture you, and forced you to do tricks you weren't meant to? Yeah, you'd be having fun right? If a human was ever tortured like this, it'd be about the most scandalous thing since little Washington cut down his father's cherry tree. But since animals are getting tortured and not humans, no one cares right? And also, did you hear about the Ringling Bros scandal? If I were you, I'd be afraid to show my face at such a place. Who knows what the world would call you? Probably nothing nice. So if you think that's perfectly fine, you go ahead. But don't come crying to me about the poor animal trainer that got stomped on by an elephant.

When you to the circus make sure you say hi to it for me.. lmao

It is the cruelest show on earth!

Animals do not need to be physically beaten to be abused. African and Asian elephants bear enormous psychological trauma from the relocation alone to be exploited by a few wealthy circus owners who are either aloof or apathetic. I'm not sure which is worse. Only one of every ten monkeys even survives the trip. Despite this, mental abuse is certainly not the only form of abuse the animals receive. These wild animals are confined for the vast majority of the time in small cages. When they are in training, all animals require considerable amounts of punishment and intimidation to learn the circus tricks. These beautiful animals were never meant to perform for your entertainment.

we are going to the circus do you wanna go?

do i want to watch a poor animal suffer while hundreds of people laugh at his misery? thats like asking if i want to see a united states marine tortured to death by the Taliban.

Circus's are cruel. Imagine you being beaten and tortured and then embarassingly paraded around in front of hundreds of watching eyes. Doing stupid tricks just knowing you have to do it in fear of being beaten or not fed. Did you know that Nazi's used to do things similar to that? To Humans?

Are you going to the circus?

"No actually im not, id rather not wait for the elephants to get whipped to do tricks before it starts just for the peoples pleasure in the stands."

"Hey dude, we are going to the circus you wanna go?"

"do i want to go watch a helpless animal suffer while people laugh at its misery? that's like asking if i want to watch a united states marine tortured to death by the Taliban. NO i do not want to go and you shouldn't either"

I would say "I find it more entertaining to watch shows where all members of the act can give consent. Animals suffering is not the greatest show on earth to me."

I agree with the statement on the shirt. Animals dont deserve to serve people with entertainment, and wear these ugly costumes and perform tricks for us. Its not right.

The circus is a tradition morfed straight from freakshows, and the truth is, an elephant has nothing more to do at a circus than the Elephant Man did.

Circuses are no fun for animals! :(

I agree with the statement on the shirt. Animals dont deserve to serve people with entertainment, and wear these ugly costumes and perform tricks for us. Its not right.

"You are REALLY going to the Circus? Do you know how the poor animals are treated their whole entire lives just for the satisfaction for people like you who want to watch elephants prance around and stupid tricks that is all they know how to do. They don't even know what it's to be free like all animals should experience. Not only are they trapped, they are beaten with whips and bull hooks! By going to the circus, you are supporting these terrible terrible actions that these 'people' are doing to animals. There are plenty more activities to do besides that! :)

Loser: "Hey! The circus is in town! Let's go!"

Me: "You have a little sister. Would you whip her across the face, and beat her with a bullhook?"

Loser: "Uhh...?"

Me. "Yeah. Because that's what they do to animals at circuses. So no, I would never in a million years go to the circus with you. And I suggest you don't go either."

Loser (turned cool): "That is absolutely unacceptable. I am never going to the circus again, and i'm telling everyone I know to boycott as well."

You want to go to a circus?
Fine, let's go get a ball you can balance on, a funky hat you can wear, and a whip if you don't listen. Switch places with the elephants, and tell me if you liked it or not.

Oh your going to the circus; I've got a great idea. Why don't you save your money and we can put on our own circus. Ask your friends and family to come over and I'll dress them up in fancy heavy head pieces and then poke, prod, whip and shock them when they are not following my specific direction. It'll be a blast!

"Try to think of how those poor animals are being treated while you chomp down on your cotton candy. T_T"

"You're going to the Circus? Ah, cool. So when you get home I'll come over, smack you in the face with a whip, stab you a couple times until you go through a hook on fire, sink a hook in to you, and make you scream. It will be the greatest show on earth. If you're not aware of how they treat those animals then you need to look it up. It's horrible and disturbing."

Awareness is the route

You want a circus?
Then you need to See Britney Spears.
At least when she cracks her whip she isn't tearing flesh.

"Yoo wtf is wrong with you ?! Your going to a circus ? What are you that bored ? You honestly have nothing better to do then go to a f***ing circus ? Fine whatever be my f***ing guest, go ahead and support elephants being beaten with bullhooks and whipped across the face and ears. Yup yup yup, your the smartest person i know. While your at it maybe after the show you'll go hit the elephants hmm? or maybe you'll kill onee!? Sound motherr f***ing good ?!"

omg im so excited for the circus, i love elephants.

"If you loveed elephants you would protest with me for their rights and saftey."

"Wanna come to the circus with me?"
"No thanks. The acrobats and shows are amazing, but when it comes to the animals i think i'll pass. I can't watch those shows and support what we all know is done behind closed doors. You should look into it. Abuse goes on everyday to the animals to make them perform the way they do on stage. Sometimes they hurt the animals even when they aren't in training or about to perform. either way no matter the time or place, it's not right and i can't sit and watch it happen."

Going to a circus is like going to watch your friends getting enslaved.
Going to a circus is like a veterinarian eating a pig.
Going to the circus is like supporting chinese labor laws.
Going to the circus is just plain wrong.
Don't go. Don't watch. Don't support.

That's what I would say! Love ya peta2 :)

OMG!! Dont Even Think About Going To A Circus. How Would You like It If I Poked and Jabbed You With Prods and Called You Fat?!?!?!Circus's Promote Animal Cruelty If You Go You'll Be Just As Much As A Freak As Those Carnies.

Maybe they will teach you a few new tricks - watch out for the whips.

Your going to a circus REALLY!? Do you realize by going to a circus your supporting animal cruelty!? Apparently you haven't checked out peta2.com lately. Everyday those poor helpless animals have to suffer for what?, A good show; for your entertainment!? Animals are ment to be free, and not ment to be locked in cages that they barley fit into. How would you feel if I locked you into a cage, and you had to follow my every command. One wrong move and you would be whipped nearly half to death! Give animals a voice, and don't go to the circus! Why watch a poor helpless animals get abused right infront of your eyes. You should be ashamed of yourself for even THINKING about going! Hay instead of going to the circus why don't we go get a veggie burger, or handout signs explaining why others shouldn't go to the circus as well! Anything beats going to the world's crulest show.

:)

Animals don't belong in a circus, they're not supposed to do tricks in front of people and be miss treated. Its stupid, all this for a little bit of entertainment. I prefer watching them when they're free and running around happy with no bruises or scars from being beaten if they're not doing what they're told. That's what entertainment is when they are where they belong, not being abused by people who don't know how to treat an animal right. You wouldn't like to be treated in that way so why should the animals be treated in that way, what gives them the right to abuse the creatures.

"Hey, i got tickets to the circus, you wanna come?"
"Um, no thanks. Do you know what they do to those animals? Whip them, beat them. Those elephants get psychological damage done to them from those traumatizing events. They are confined and put into small spaces so they can 'amuse you.' Yeah, sure, like it will amuse me knowing what they do. If the roles were reversed, how would you feel? Would you be happy that they were beating you? What about the monkeys. Only a few ever survive the trip. If you have ever see what happens behind the scenes, you would not go. Like me. Actually , Peta made a video that shows what happens. I'll email you the link so you can see for yourself. I'm not going, but thanks for the offer.

Why am I not going to the circus? W-ell... aside from wild animals being taken from their home, the beatings and whippings their animals receive, teaching them unnatural tricks they must perform, and forcing confinement and onto them... I don't know, those clowns are pretty creepy.

"Entrapment is still entrapment, Torture is still torture, you wouldn't feel morally right watching a kidnapped child do tricks for entertainment, I have a lot of trouble seeing the difference here. We all have hearts, we all feel pain, no living thing deserves to spend its life caged, hurt, and confused."

You know I dont' like going to circus because well the clowns freak me out. They give me bad night mares. But if you don't get scared by them, there's another reason why you should'nt go...
The animals are being poorley taken care of.
It's what you don't see whn you go to the circus, them taking beatings by sticks if they don't do what they were suppose to do.What if that was you? Would you want someone paying to come and see you act all happy but behind curtians you know if you did something wrong your going to get it.
So next time you might be thinking of going to the circus remember that its not a happy place like it may seem.

"Hey you going to the Circus?"
"Yeah.."
"Do you like being prodded behind your ears and hit constantly, y'know?
"Uhmm.. no.."
"Well that's what happens to animals and YOU if you go there. So there."

"Hmm.... no I'd rather not, tortured animals separated from their kind tend to go crazy and rampage. Torture really isn't my thing. I'd like to keep my life."

Entrapment is still entrapment, Torture is still torture, despite what the law might say. You wouldn't feel morally right watching a kidnapped child entertain you for money, I have trouble seeing the difference here. No living creature deserves to be abused, mocked and alone there entire lives.

'What if you were the one up there being whipped and laughed at?'

Awesome! And afterward we can torture and demean YOU in front of hundreds of people! :D It will be great!

"I think it's morbid to find entertainment in suffering. Heck no am I going."

When attending a circus, most people look forward to watching lion's jump through firey hoops, or elephants do tricks. It is all very impressive, but what about what happens behind closed doors? Are you aware of the beating and the yelling that goes on to make these oh-so impressive tricks happen? These animals have been shackled to a life of slavery for a few cheap tricks and our own sick enjoyment from it. By attending a circus with animals involved, you are supporting animal cruelty. Please, have a heart and think about the innocent animals that are being forced through this.

i would tell them that the circus is not fun, the animals are beaten, badly abused, made to perform for hours on end... i would try to make them understand that going to the circus is very wrong, cruel.

Go to a circus? Me?! hah! you've got to be kidding. circuses are for people with no life going to look at the life of animals that are being beaten on a daily bases and tormented. oh and not to mention the crowd of people looking at those animals not only look and say, "how cute" or, "look how adorable they are!" those people also put their trash in their already small cages and feed them circus junk food... hence circus animal's unhealthy diet. a lot of animals die at circuses because we kill them with our trash. do you think it's fair to sit in a cage for your life, being watched by hudreds.. of lets say animals instead of humans?, and if those animals could do what we do to them, they'd be throwing their food at us that they eat regularly.. which would be mostly HUMAN FOOD. and not to mention, the animals would be so mad they'd probably throw terds at you. so i have the decency not to go near a circus and try to talk people into not going. you wouldn't go if you had a heart. circuses are just as expensive, maybe more, than that new movie you've been ranting about. go watch that instead of watching animal cruelty right in front of you. don't add onto that crowd of a hundred people. you and me, that's 2 less people watching animals being treated poorly. you and me, we can spread the word about what Reeeallllyyyy goes on in circuses.

I feel like regular circuses are kind of white-trash...why don't you go to something classy like a play or Cirque du Soleil?

I would say
and i quote
Me: "Hey i heard you were joining the circus"
Person joining the circus: "Yeah im excited i get to travle and see the animals "
Me: "Did you know that they abuse their elephants"
Person joining the circus: " Well im not going to be working with the elephants"
Me: "Either way you working for the circus is showing your support for them to keep abusing their elephants"
Person joining the circus:"And their just elephants"
Me: "Elephants can feel pain and they have feelings stop being a self centered pig"
Me: "Either way i hope that you don't make the wrong decicion and you decide to not take the job"

The circus might be fun for you, but for the animals it is horrible. They are getting beat for your entertainment to do the tricks. Animals should be free in the wild not in cages or in a ring for you to watch and get beat. If the animal should ever try to fight back the animal would most likely get shot and killed because it is a wild animal and should be in the wild were it belongs.

Wowzas. You actually go to those fright fests? Sorry, but I don't like seeing innocent animals being put in a freak show. You should see what REALLY goes on to those poor animals, you'd be surprised.

Next time you are going to the circus, make sure to get some elephant blood with that cotton candy.

"You want to come to the circus with us, Falon?"

No, I don't. I can't bare to think about the torture those poor helpless animals have gone through and are still going through. Circus' should be stopped, because I don't think a human would like to be beaten that way to do what they're told ESPECIALLY when they don't completely understand. Nobody would attend a circus if it was an animal like your pet, so why is it any different with elehants and tigers? And if you want to still go.. then I guess you support animal cruelty which is very unfortunate, but you will get your karma. :D

well first id smack them.. and then i say" dude seriously, your gonna go to a circus you think its cool all the stuff the animals do.. hahahahah ya its funny its entertaining, no its disgusting and wrong, they get those animals to perform tricks for your amusement but torture, how would you like it if your mom would beat you or electrocute you so you would do your homework or clean the kitchen wouldnt be very nice would it..and if you go to that circus i cant be friends with someone who supports animal cruelty, you make me sick!!!!" and if they didnt go then i would hug them lol

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?! You are going WHERE!? To the circus?! :O What's wrong with you? You are soo not informed about how they treat animals there. Elephants belong in the wild, just as you belong in your home. How would you feel if a bunch of elephants capture you and take you to the jungle? What if they lock you up and handcuff you forcing you to do tricks to "entertain themselves"? Dude! Just think about it! It isn't fair how elephants and other animals live like in the circus. You still think I'm crazy or paranoid huh? Well just put your brain to FUNCTION and put yourself in the animal’s place. They might be animals, but they feel too, they’re not robots. So will you still support the circus and its cruelty towards those creatures? Because THEY are the real animals, they don’t care about the elephants. I don’t know if they are brainless, or if they have some weird disease that makes them hurt others. What I do know is that you should think again the next time you want to attend the circus.

You want a circus?
Then talk to Britney Spears.
At least when she cracks her whip she isn't tearing flesh.

How can you bare to even go to such a cruel place? Do you know what they do to those defenseless animals? Do you know how the animals pay a deep, painful price for your night of entertainment?
They get abused, whipped, and harmed. Even right in front of your eyes.
Animals are supposed to be free and living their own lives. Just like us people. They're supposed to eat their own meals until they get full, they're supposed to see the sun and run openly, they're supposed to surrounded by other animals like themselves with love and a home to protect.
However, being in a circus, animals are confined in small cages. Given hardly any food that certainly would not fill up their hunger. And they get hurt.
These animals were not created to perform little acts just for your entertainment.
Think of yourself getting whipped and beaten and being in the same place these beautiful animals are in just to entertain someone with a little act.
Think about how the true nature of the circus shows are and how evil they truly are.

So, I hear you're going to the circus.
yep.
You know you're just paying for trainers to torture the animals right?
how so?
Well, the trainers use cruel methods to train them, such as beatings and whips and electric prods. The animals also are kept in tiny cages the entire time they're not performing.
oh, I was just joking when I said I was going to the circus.

(I was bored so I just typed a skit XD)

Man: Hey are you going to the circus?

Me: Please refer to my shirt *points to The cruelest show on earth Tee shirt*

Man: What is that all about?

Me: It's about Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus..They have the be the cruelest, most heartless people in the world! They have no problem abusing their animals just for a one or two hour show....

Man: So? Who cares I mean it's only two hours right?

Me: Who cares? The Animals care.....And no it doesn't last two hours for them, their abuse goes on every single day....Just think about it what if you were a baby elephant and than a man started beating you with different things....Just like abuse on a human it leaves abuse on animals to....Plus that cool french cirus is going to be in town, and it's an animal free show!

Man: Oh wow....Ok, that sounds pretty cool!

Hey I'm going to the circus, are you?

"Not if you like watching poor animals dance around like puppets and do tricks just because they are scared to death of being hit and beaten by their trainers. It may look like all fun and games but you don't see the Ringling Bros. showing how they really train these animals, its not the wonderful entertainment that you think it is. Keep in mind while you watch the elephants stand on their hind legs and do tricks that they are not enjoying it as much as you. But have fun :)"

"Hey Tara! I got these two free tickets to the circus next week! Wanna join?"

"Oh yeah. I'll join you in watching the most cruel sight of animal torture probably ever shown in public. Its pure enjoyment watching poor, helpless elephants perform against their will. Those same poor, helpless elephants who are chained together night after night and forced to practice night after night. The same elephants who are whipped with hooked prongs for no reason whatsoever. Who are treated as they are pieces of dirt on the side of the road. I'd love to watch tigers perform against their will as well who are extremely unhappy and treated terribly. The same tigers that are whipped time and time again when they make one wrong step in a performance. The same tigers who will never have a life out in the wild, free to make their own decisions. These circus animals are tortured beyond anyone's wildest imagine and you want to go watch them "perform"? NO. I will NOT join you because in my opinion..this is NOT ENTERTAINMENT. If you want entertainment..go watch Spongebob..not a circus"

I would tell them:
The circus treat elephants in a cruel way, and only to make a profit off of them.If you go you are supporting them to abuse the animals. The more the audience, the more the profit. If you go you are encouraging them to keep this behavior up. You are making them money by going to the circus, which means all the more reason to keep punishing the animals into learning more tricks.The tricks may awe you and make you excited, but if you go when you are watching the elephants give rides to acrobats, tigers being whipped at for amusement, and monkies acting cute, think about how they were taken from the wild. From there families and put into tight sparkly costumes, to amuse little kids. Think about the animals past, how it learned the tricks, how they got that way. I won't tell you not to go, and i won't tell you to go to the circus, but make sure you think when you're there, or when you're about to say yes to the offer a friends offer to go.
Just Think.

"Oh, you're attending a circus today? I'd like to know what exactly goes through your mind while sitting at a Circus. If euphoria flows through your body as you watch the animals jump through hoops and play with fire, then I've got a rude awakening for you. Whether you want to believe it or not, animals are brutally tortured into these unusual acts. Remember, animals are meant to run free and live their own lives. They're not meant to be used for our entertainment. Therefore, these acts are not normal for them! They shouldn't be subjected to this kind of cruelty! Animals are our friends, not things we gawk at. Remember this as you sit your happy self down with a box of popcorn and your younger brother ready to be entertained by these helpless, hurt animals.

Hey, are you coming to that circus tomorrow?

"No. The animals are brutally mistreated at those circuses. They're locked up and tortured. Besides, I can put on just as good of a show with just a hoola hoop and some fire." xD

"Hey, Wanna come to the circus with me?"

"If i wanted to see animals in pain, ill go to a vet or animal shelter. "

"Oh, you're attending a Circus today? Well, I wonder what goes through your mind as you sit through a Circus. I bet you don't think about what these animals went through right before coming out on stage to 'entertain' you. Have you ever thought about how they get these animals to take part in such unusual acts? Remember, animals are meant to run free, not jump through hoops and play with fire. Animals are our friends, not things we sit and gawk at. Therefore, it makes my stomach turn at the thought of you sitting your happy self down with a box of popcorn ready to be 'entertained'. Animals should not be subjected to this cruel, vapid punishment. Think about this while planning your next play date with your little brother. Because while sitting in the audience, you're endorsing the punishment of helpless, hurt animals.

"You're going to the circus? That's so cruel. How would you like to be in a human freak show, and watch everyone stare at you for enjoyment? I thought you were better than that."

I love the shirt, by the way! (:

person: "Hey im going to the circus this saturday, wanna come?"
me: "sorry i have better things to do than support the abuse of innocent animals being paraded around for your amusement"

While you're having fun watching animals do repetitive tricks, elephants and bears are being beaten and tortured in the name of your entertainment. Selfish, isn't it?

Not on my life...

"Before you go, I think you should check out PETA's website... You'll see why I'm not going, and you shouldn't either."

Hey im going to the circus are you?

I use to love the circus, but that's till i learned the truth. You know how the elephants always look sad and old? Well that's because they are beat all the time. They aint happy, why pay for more animals to be abused. If you dont believe me there is a lot of proof on the www.peta2.com. :]

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

When you're little, the circus is played out to be this big magical world where animals from places such as the Jungle come out and perform. What children and adults alike aren't told is the process behind the Circus and just how inhumane it truely is.
I'm sure you know that in order to attend the circus you have to pay the money for a ticket. But did you know that the money you are giving to them is not going for the care of their animals? You would think with all of the cash circus' will bring in, they could put it toward a better living environment for their animals, but instead the animals remain in small cages, being transported from state to state without proper food, water, grooming/bathing, space or sanitation. Not only is the lack of care after the Circus irresponble and heartless, what they do to animals during their live performances is just as bad if not worse. These meant to be wild animals are spending the majority of their lives training for performances, performing nights and nights on end, and then being crammed into cages to be hauled off to do it all over again. These large and beautiful animals are coerced into doing acts and stunts for the amusement of the people who buy into this cruelty. Animals, such as lions, elephants and monkeys that are meant to be undomesticated - should not be kept for the amusement of humans. With little rest between acts, animals are forced to perform unrested, unbathed, and poorly fed for nights on end. Abuse isn't always physical, it can be as simple as neglect. By ignoring the ways to properly care for said animals, the circus owners or "care takers" are neglectfully abusing their performers.

Do you really want to be a supporter of neglect and mistreatment?

"hey you wanna go to the circus with me?"

and then I'd say something like "do you really think that I wanna PAY for animal cruelty? are you crazy? what kind of person are you? you can go by yourself if you want to but if those poor elephants weren't so busy being beaten they'd probably throw their dung at you or something."

(As if I was talking to my friend about it)

Circuses are not entertaining when you know the truth behind it all.
The animals are not treated well. It's the exact opposite. Now when I tell you what really goes on behind the curtains at the circus, imagine yourself as the animals and really listen.

For the publics entertainment, for YOUR entertainment, the animals endure unbearable pain. As you might know, it takes time for animals to learn tricks but these animals don't have time. So they are tortured. Trainers will use electric prods and stab them in the legs, they'll whip them, and use bullhooks to try and make them learn faster. That's not all though. After their 'performances' and 'training sessions', they're stuck back into these cages that are barely big enough to keep them in there. Some of them probably even become depressed.

And when you take on this much damage, emotionally and physically, it breaks them down.
Their life is shortened because of all this.
And what is all this for? So you can see these poor animals do some stupid tricks?

You wouldn't survive. Alota of them don't.

hey wanna go to the circus with me?

are you kidding me , watching elephants parade around for your entertainment, and then knowing that they will get abused when they're done.
no thank you.

what if you got abused for the elephants entertainment, then im sure you'd be realll excited to see the circus.

"No animal especially Elephants Tigers, Lions, whatever animal you put in your deathtrap were put here for our joy, and its uncalledfor when people like you torment them because they aren't doing their "job" right. They don't know any better, they were not suppost to be raised this way anyway. They were put here to live like you and me and you're taking that away from them. Open your eyes and take a look at the world you greedy and heartless idiot. It's not all about the money. It's about the animals and how much more they deserve than to live like this."

I would stay arguing with them, until i convinced them that it is a very serious situaton, and its VERY wrong.

Every year you ask me to go with you to the circus, and every year I respond with no, I don’t want to even think about the circus. But you wont stop. You keep asking me what the big deal is? it’s just a show.
You really want to know why I don’t wanna go? When I was a little girl I went to the circus with my mom and dad. Everything was going okay until the animals came out and a small elephant who didn’t quite get the “choreography” down, was being whipped until it got to the right position. Can you imagine being a young kid, and feeling like you’re the elephant, being whipped to do something they don’t wanna do, all so a bunch of people can stare, laugh and mock you? I cried the whole way home.
Years later we were doing a project for school, and I decided to focus on the cruelty of animals at the circus and I found out a LOT of bad things that go on backstage without penalty.I still have it if you wanna look at it. Animals should be left to live in their natural environment.

I can honestly (and proudly say) I have never been to a circus in my entire life. My parents just never had the chance to take me and I'm glad they didn't.

A general conversation involving the circus. I would be on Sue's side. (:

Jake: Hey Sue! Barnum and Bailey are in town; want to come to the circus with me? I hear they have the world's largest elephant and it does tons of neato tricks! :D

Sue: No thanks Jake. Unlike you and many other people on this planet, I actually care what happens to God's creatures. Circuses are horrible places where many animals are abused, confined in small cages not fit for them after the shows, and have to go through much punishment to learn the cruel tricks that people enjoy. Not to mention it's just an event designed to horrify young children with grotesquely painted clowns and cheap popcorn that stain teeth orange. As well as be used as an advanced technique of torture for those who are afraid of clowns. And to be quite honest, clowns do freak me out with all that hideous makeup and over sized shoes.

Jake: Well, geez, Sue you can get off your soapbox now.

Sue: I'm sorry Jake, but I'm just expressing my feelings about the circus and hoping you might think about what I have said and not go. There are PLENTY of other fun things we can do besides seeing people stick needles through themselves and living and the mean tricks the animals have to go through.

Jake: Ahh, I kind of see where you're coming from. Hmm, well, since I have no other person to come to the circus with me, what do you want to do today?

Sue: How about some Super Mario Karts?

Jake: Oooh, that sounds good. I call Yoshi!

Sue: NO! I get Yoshi.

Jake: We'll see about that...

End of conversation. (:

Friend: "hey i'm going to the circus. what about you?"

Me: "i'm sorry but i don't believe in animals being treated that way. Because i know i wouldn't want people hurting me for others' pleasure"

Friend:"well when you look at it that way it sounds kinda cruel"

Me:"what part about it isn't cruel? not only is it torture but how comfortable would you be in front of thounsands of people cheering and making loud noises? i doubt you would be happy."

Friend:"i changed my mind.. Lets go buy boca!!!!"
(i wish my friend would say that..xD)

Friend: "hey i'm going to the circus. what about you?"

Me: "i'm sorry but i don't believe in animals being treated that way. Because i know i wouldn't want people hurting me for others' pleasure"

Friend:"well when you look at it that way it sounds kinda cruel"

Me:"what part about it isn't cruel? not only is it torture but how comfortable would you be in front of thounsands of people cheering and making loud noises? i doubt you would be happy."

Friend:"i changed my mind.. Lets go buy boca!!!!"
(i wish my friend would say that..xD)

ok so your going to the circus are you? animals were not put here on the earth for our entertainment. those animals were taking from there home and were put into cages and were beatend and tourmented for our pleasure. are you kidding me you actually support that kind of thing? animals were ment to rome free around the earth and be happy and live their life just like us humans do. could you imagine being taken from your parents at a young age then being placed in a cage then being beaten so you can perform for a bunch of humans. ya i counldnt either but thats what the circus animlas have to go through every day of there life. so instead of going to the circus to watch lets go stand outside and let the people going in now what the animals had to go through all so they could be entertained.
i only have one voice but so do you and together we coud stop this sickening act.

Ok, and when are the animals coming to watch you perform in return?

I would say that, "circuses torture their animals and force them to perform 'tricks' that they would never do in the wild. How would you like to be caged up all day, only to be let out so that you can perform for hundreds of hillbillies who support the cruel life you have been given. If that's what you call entertainment, than you are sick."
I know i sound crazy, but circuses really make me angry, they are so mean.

What the hell?! You're going to the circus? Have you NOT seen Dumbo? Remember what happened to Dumbo's mom?! That's basically what happens to most of the circus' animals, except that they don't have the benefit of Disney's kid friendly filter AND they have to go through that whenever they train for a show. You're basically supporting animal cruelty...YOU'RE KILLING DUMBO'S MOM! >:O

I'm going to a circus tonight
-Do you like the elephants?
Yes
-Do you like the tigers?
Yes
-Do you like the monkeys?
Yes
-Then how can you support something that tortures and abuses those animals? Stand up for them and help them. Don't pay to have their abuse continue.

"Hope they start parading you around the ring and hurting you.
Oh, and bring me a souvenir. An elephant whip would be nice decor."

You should join the circus,
spend your life being shakled and tourtured.
Because its only fair you get the same treatment
you helped to fund.
then youd think twice about the cute animals =]

how can you be entertained by the elephants or any animal in this circus when they are not being treated humanely or allowed to thrive in their natural habitat....that would make people who think they are entertained by circus animals sadddists in my opinion because they are knowingly watching animals perform through fear and intimidation.

"Hey are you going to the circus?"

"am i going to the circus? child are you crazy? how can i possibly stand to look and sit in a crowd full of people who enjoy the torture of a poor helpless creature! or course i'm not going i'd advise you not to go either. the clowns might capture you and make you a part of the show."

"i'm going to that circus in town, i've got an extra ticket. wanna come?"
"oh, i'll already be there."
"Really? maybe we can sit together."
"i doubt it. i'll be out front of the tent, screaming my worries about the animals. or maybe i'll be inside, yelling at the ring master about what he does. he'll try to persuade me, but i'll be difficult and won't hold back."
"why?"
"because they have no legit reason besides 'enetertainment' to terrorize these animals into standing on two feet or through rings of fire or tons of other unhumane tricks. the animals don't even have a choice, they're born into it. it's like how the slaves were born into slavery."
"oh."
"yeah. oh."

Things change...all of the time. The majority of things that change are merely updated. Cars, computers, phones, and clothes go through changes. Even the circus. Circus' that make use of animals, outside of being cruel, are out dated. One company has updated the circus, Cirque du Soleil. An animal free circus. Being animal free means no cruel torture. I've personally been to both types circus' in my lifetime, and can say that Cirque du Soleil is the way to go for a circus-esque enviroment. Not the Dingling Bros and Farnum & Hailey 'Circus.'

What? Why? Are you kidding me?
Its bad enough you eat meat.
Watch a few videos of how they torture those innocent animals
and then well see how you feel about the circus.

"Ha ha seriously? I don't get why you'd want to see tortured animals perform for you.
I think your dog is more entertaining."

friend: "Hey I'm going to the circus, are you?"

me: "Why would I be going?"

Friend: "Because its fun and I know how much you like animals"

me: "Yeah I LOVE animals, but I will not be going there."

Friend: "What? Why?"

me: "Because they abuse the animals!! Animals are meant to be in their natural habitat not on some stage entertaining us! Plus they whip the animals if they don't cooperate with them or get a trick right, plus most of the animals are scared of the crowds. Would you like it if you had to perform some trick in front of a bunch of people while your scared and beaten?"

friend: "Oh ... I didn't know that."

me: "Its okay, the point is that you do know now and that you don't support the circus."

friend: "Oh no I won't. Thanks for telling me."

=D

(peace & love)
-Cory

the circus what? are you kidding? do you know what they do to those animals so your can sit there and enjoy yourself. here i will show you....

"By going to a circus you are helping those people torture and slowly kill poor innocent elephants, tigers and other animals. don't go to these horrific places they like to call a circus!"

Hey, You yeah you. Do you know what happens when you not looking at the elephants with silly outfits and dancing around? Abuse. And I bet your thinking "ahh, well it could hurt that bad!" well... think again everynight elephants have to preform after AND before every preformace they get abused. whacked with bull whips. On the face ear and across the body. If they go too slow while walking out on stage... *WHACK* they gut whipped. So it's your choice... do YOU want the go the circus?

Many people are amazed at how the animals preform such unusual tricks, but what keeps them dumbstruck about how they were brutally forced to learn them? Pain and fear haunt all their memories, and elephants never forget. They'll never forget every beating, everything thier forced to do, and thier life of misery. They'll never forget the electric prods and being stabbed with bullhooks. Buying tickets is paying and supporting animal cruelty and the mental and phisical breakdowns of animals. Putting them in a circus is like putting them in a deathtrap. lifes are shortened because of depression, brutal beatings and sevear emotional pain.

Are u serious? Do u even know what goes on behind-the-scenes @ a circus? Are u truly that ignorant? Let me show u. Come with me & we'll go to the peta2.com website. After watching, then tell me if u still want to go to the circus. If you're not disturbed by what u have seen then you're just as cruel & heartless & them. U are supporting them...

It's a hot day in July and Amanda, Lindsey's friend, has decided she will attend the circus.
"I'm going to the circus," says Amanda.
"Cool, can I come?" asks Lindsey
"Sure, jump in the hoo-ride!" Amanda responds.
"Okay, let me just grab some stuff real quick." Lindsey comes out of her house holding a big box.
"What's that stuff?" Amanda asks.
"Oh, you'll see."
Some time later they arrive at the circus. Lindsey waves to a few people holding a folding table and walks over. "Okay, lets set up here," Lindsey tells the new friends.
"What are you doing? I thought you wanted to see the circus." Amanda says thouroughly confused.
"I said I wanted to come, not that I want to see the circus... come here, look at all of these flyer's I have and you'll see why." Lindsey spends a little time showing Amanda the horrors that the animals go through daily with the circus and also alternatives like an all human circus.
Amanda has a change of heart and rips up her ticket. She puts a portable television around her neck that is showing the nightmares of the circus while Lindsey is talking to circus goers about why they should not attend. Many people decline to pay for a ticket and go to the arcade across the street and it was all thanks to the work Amanda and Lindsey did while at the circus.
(I guess it's not what I would say but what would happen... but whatever... same diff.)

I remember being dragged to the circus when I was seven years old, I found no joy out of it. While other kids we're laughing at the animals and clapping for the "tricks" they did, I was literally crying my eyes out. The way those animals are treated is beyond cruel, it's immorally wrong. Animals have their own feelings, their own personalities, just as any human does. Would you like seeing another human out there getting whipped and doing those tricks? I can't begin to justify the reasons behind the things people do at the circus. Those animals deserve to be free in the natural habitat they we're put in by God. I'm personally repulsed at the idea of people bringing there kids to such a heartless gathering when there are so many more options that are animal friendly. Watching animals parade around for mild enjoyment of one night, when they spend every night in pain just for that one night for you. Once you see what's not happening to those animals on stage, I hope your heart will understand the reason I disagree with such torment. It's just wrong.

'you should seriously consider looking into behind the scenes before you make your mind up. animals from the circus are beaten into doing what their handlers want them too by usinf bull hooks and cattle prods. animals from touring circuses are kept in tiny trailers used for transport and may be allowed half an hour to stretch their legs in a tiny pen the size of a transit van. when the animals are not being used and the circus is not 'in season' the animals are crammed into a tiny cage that someone may put their dog in for a ten minute car journey. Animals kept for 'circus entertainment' go insane through lack of exercise and often become diseased very quickly because of overcrowding,'

i'd carry on like this until i had disueded them

Poetic_tradgedy@hotmail.co.uk

You're going to the circus, and you call yourself an animal lover? You say that you'd love to be in a fun circus if you were an elephant or a tiger? Well then I guess you'd just love to be beaten and then put on a show for people who are paying money to see the so called "greatest show on earth". The truth is that innocent animals are treated as slaves in the circus. There are no fun and games behind the curtain. Who would want a lifestyle with pain being a constant and a life with no freedom? Why don't you think about the animals before you go out to buy your "cruelest show on earth" ticket.

oh you're going to the circus ? i didn't know you supported animal cruelty and abuse. all they do is torture the animals until they do what they want them to do. i don't see how that's entertainment but if you do then you're no friend of mine.

it would go like this:
"Hey cas. want to go to the circus?"

"Oh sure! and then do you want to head out to the slaughter house and maybe eat some kfc?"

for shiz. :)

go see a dominatrix if whips and chains are you thing

I would say something stupidly smart like:

"oh well if you want to go that's fine. but before you leave the circus could you get me some 'animal cruelty' popcorn and some 'i have no sympathy for animals', lemonade?"

something like that i guess.
anyways, cute shirt :)

omg ive always wanted to go to a circus ut now the only time illgo is to protest no living thing deserves that i will never go and i will spread the word

All the poor animals over the decades that have been abused and mistreated in different circuses and traveling shows-I remember when I was a little girl in the '60's-seeing a poor black bear in a tiny cage at a roadside animal"display" There were people throwing rocks at it- my father told the man running it he was a disgrace!

Tell me, what kind of person are you to go watch innocent, helpless animals be brutally tortured and humiliated. It is completely 100% unfair to animals that they are forced to obey and listen to these cruel people who will not feed them and beat them if they do not listen. Have you ever had a nightmare that you were forced to walk around in embarrassing, raggy old clothes in front of hundreds of strangers doing tricks for their entertainment? Or being crammed into a cage and electrocuted? Well, I have and I know that it is extremely unpleasant and degrading. I would never go to a circus and support the large amounts of animal abuse. Hopefully you're better than that.

"Do you know what happens to animals in the circus? they get beaten and tortured day after day, and go into cages where they don't belong. they should be roaming free. Not being trained for pointless entertainmnet. Especially when there's soooo many other ways to get entertained!! How would you like it if someone beat you for not doing a stupid trick? I have a better idea: Lets go to my casa and i'll show you some of the videos. then we can watch 80's movie like the breakfast club and 16 candles while eating tofu scramble and drinking kool aid??"

(i love love LOVE!! tofu scramble and kool aid. haha)

Are you going to the circus to free the animals and return them to their natural habitats or are you just going there to support cruelty to animals?

"hey, im going to the circus, wanna come with?"

"no thank you, i dont take amusment in the fact that those endangered animals are being tortured and forced to perfurm day after day as part of cheap entertainment for families across America, but i hope you have fun in sponsering cruelty to the animals!"

and i say it smiling and wait for them to say something back

You know how people say "It's like watching someone kick a dog?" We all know that look that dogs get when they're scared or sad. It's one of the hardest things to look at, but now more and more people are taking a stand when they see something like that. With dogs you can see the signs of abuse, shaking, ears back, tails down. But we don't recognize the signals that more exotic animals are trying to give us when they're abused. But now PETA has proof of what the "trainers" are doing to them! Beating elephants with bull hooks? Whipping them across their ears and face? By going to a circus, you are supporting that animal cruelty! So if you care at all about animals you will stay away and try to help them!

hey you going to the circus?

"no,of course not...i wouldn't be able to sit down for two and a half hours and hear people clapping their hands and cheering on the others who torchure thes poor and innocent animals like elephants,tigers,and horses

Come to the circus? No thanks I'd rather not sit there faced with the fake smiles of everyone falling pray to the happy facade they put forward. Oh yea those commercials where everyone looks happy and whatnot blatant propaganda!"

Meg: Hey, Im going to see the Ringling Bros circus! Doesnt that sound fun?
Me: Circuses are no fun for those elephants that weigh a ton!
Meg: What the heck, you are sooo random!
Me: Whipped, beaten, abused and hurt,to the circuses these elephants are worth less than dirt!
Meg: We ARE talking about a circus, not Petsmart.
Me: This PETA video online dont tell any lies! Watch it, it'll change your mind!

(random dude) "you going to the circus tonight?"

me: "ahahahahahahahaha..... "NO"...but i think you should try out for it.. it'd be nice to be ridiculed,beaten, yelled at,stupidly paraded.. ..yeah... you very well qualify..

shame.

I took my daughter to this circus when she was 4 years old and I clearly remember them doing elephant rides during intermission, when I seen the elephant I know right then the abuse they had taken. The poor guy had a few marks on it that was clearly visable to everyone but many people pretended not to see it or just didnt care for their own amusement.
Let's just say that was both of our first and last circus experience. I have since educated my daughter on the abuse from the circus.

Meg: Hey, Im going to see the Ringling Bros circus! Doesnt that sound fun?
Me: Circuses are no fun for those elephants that weigh a ton!
Meg: What the heck, you are sooo random!
Me: Whipped, beaten, abused and hurt,to the circuses these elephants are worth less than dirt!
Meg: We ARE talking about a circus, not Petsmart.
Me: This PETA video online dont tell any lies! Watch it, it'll change your mind!

By going to the circus you're supporting the abuse of animals. Most people don't realize it, but animals in the circus are beaten in order to do the tricks they perform, which is unnatural and unfair. There are several other more fair and ethical choices when it comes to finding entertainment.

are you an idiot? why the hell would you want to see dozens of animals that have been dragged away from their families and away from their homeland, forced to parade around doing tricks? it's one of the sickest things ever, and you're a moron for thinking it's clever and fun. IT'S NOT. stop being foolish and see what is going on here. see the truth of what the circus is - a pathetic excuse for humans to gain power over animals by beating them and forcing them to do stupid tasks. I'm ashamed for you that you cannot see this or do not care.

why would i pay money to go to a circus to see animals being tortured when i could go to peta2.com and find out how to stop it for free?

Do you know how they treat these animals? Go to https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2359 and tell me if you still want to support that. I can't believe people could do that to an animal. They deserve to live in the wild like every other animal. Animals were not put on the earth for our entertainment. It's an unnatural thing for them to do.

"you're taking your kids to the circus?" - me
"yes" -them
"well thats great because it's always nice to show your kids animal cruelty upclose and personal at a young age." - me

"omg, I have circus tickets!!! Wanna go?"

No thanks. I rather would rather not watch animals being forced to jump through hoops for OUR entertainment. It's just not right. Do you know that the elephants are hit with whips and hooks? That's like you being ABUSED everyday and they expect you to still be able to run 2 miles. Would you like that? I also don't enjoy the circus because clowns are really scary. Besides, I don't want you to waste a ticket on me because I don't want the trainers to think that I LIKE what they are doing. It's wrong, sick, and evil. Whoever came up with the idea of that is just not caring about the animals on this planet!

It's just plain evil!

I have had the misfortune of attending several rodeos when I was a child, and I think they are at least as harmful as circus'. There seems to be a cultural arttraction to harming animals and calling it entertainment.

Hey, i'm going too the circus today wanna come?

- you're going too the CIRCUS are you serious bob have you seen how much the animals go through to look as perfect and trained as they come out on the stage too be. If you came over I'd show you a video that changed my outlook on a good variety of things. I bet if you watch peta2's sad but life changing videos with me you'd never wanna even think that you actually wanted too go too that circus.

hey let´s go to the circus.

"no, how could you like the circus? you might think its fun to watch the animals (elephants) stand on chairs, but dont you think if they get it wrong, then the elephants would get whipped? would you like to be caged in and only let out for training, where they whip you, and they wont stop until you get it right. and if your no good, they sell you. animals shouldnt be used for entertainment!stop thinking about how you feel wen people hit you, but try to place yourself in the animals shoes."

i would say:
"so your gonna pay and contribute to the hurt of those precious animals? why don't you just donate your dog as well?"

Do you want me to treat you like these poor animals are treated? Do you want me to whip you? A lot of people will laugh at you, it'll be very funny.

"You're lucky the only thing at the circus that scares you is the clowns. For the performing animals, it's an entirely different story. They have to live their lives in fear and pain, waiting for their next bout of torture, just to perform for your amusement."

Circuses are evil!! Training a smart and loving animal fun and mentally challening tricks is good for them. Beating them becouse they get something wrong and might ruin your chance to get some money? EVIL. HORRIBLE. DISGUSTING. I have never been to a circus, i will never go to one and when I have kids someday they will never go. This is wrong and cruel!!

"Yo, we're going to the circus tonight. I hear the elephants got some rad tricks! Wanna go? I'll pay your way."

"I'd rather be eaten alive by ants..."

"Why the glum mood?"

"Glum? I'm not glum. I'm just mortified."

"By what?"

"Well... First of all... I'm scared of clowns..."

"Aw, seriously? C'mon. They won't hurt you."

"I said FIRST of all. I'm not done."

"Cut the crap. Let's go to the circus."

"Can I bring a blowtorch?"

"What! Why?"

"So I can burn it down, duh."

"..... Do you want to go or not?"

"Of course I want to go! I love seeing animals suffer for nothing! I just can't get enough of it! Oh, how I lavish in the thought of those poor helpless animals getting prodded with electric prods just for our entertainment. Who cares if the animal should be free? Who cares if the animal is kept in a filthy stall? So long as I get my entertainment, all is well." I pause. "I used to wonder wear where our money went when we pay for the circus. I'm still not sure where it goes. It olbviously does not go into the care for the animals, oh no. But who am I to care? They aren't my responsibility...." a second pause. "Let's go to the circus!"

"Um, I don't think I want to go anymore... For I too, am afraid of clowns... See you later..." the friend is green-faced, "I have to use the bathroom."

What?
You want me to go to a show of animal torture?
sure thing.

NOT.

id go to the circus..and let all the animals FREE :)

Don't run rings around circuses - they are a real act of animal cruelty made up to look pretty and fun, which is far from the truth. Circus animals suffer every day beyond the visit to your town, don't let intelligent animals suffer for your moment of holiday ignorance!

I'm not going to the circus. Elephants are my favorite animal. I'd rather see them in the wild being true elephants than in a circus where they were whipped into circus condition. And I mean literally whipped. Do you want to support their pain, or support the elephants?

Animals shouldn't be confined of a space and having to preform for people. That is not right, they should be out in the wild and able to do what they want when they want and have as much space to roam as they want. Any person in their right mind would not support or go to a circus, everyone knows what happens. I do not support animal cruelty, and neither should you.

after seeing this video i couldnt believe it! i never went to the circus ; it seemed like so much fun and to see wild animals upclose sounded so awesome! i wanted to bring my younger cousin this year. I watched the video and I was shocked. elephants are gentle giants and to be tortured by a man with a bullhook had me crying. not even kidding! i cant believe a man would take anger out on an animal and beat the crap out of it. that was like seeing a man being beaten after being held hostage. it's the same thing! it broke my heart. we need to put an end to this! the circus is no longer joy.

"Oh, cool, you're going to the circus? You should apply for that volunteer gig where you get to defy your anatomy by doing unnatural tricks. I hear they take anyone with a nervous system. Don't worry, it's just so you'll be susceptible to their disciplinary measures, in the case they need to use them."

I would say: Don't you know that circuses are the crulest shows on earth? They abuse animals. You are cruel and stupid for evening thinking about going to a darm circus.

I have always hated the circus, even as a small child. I hate them even more every since the day I found out about the cruelty they impose on all of their animals! I ordered the cards a few years a go from your website, and leave them around my office when it is time for the circus to be in town.

"Sticks and stones may brake my bones, but bull-hooks and whips will only give them tortured souls"

[me]"your going to the circus ? wow , i thought you were a good person "

[them]"huh ?"

[me]"yeah i thought you liked elephants too " *sigh*

[them] "what are you talking about ? "

[me]"i hope you know the elephants at the ringling circus are abused and mistreated ; and going to that torture show just supports the terror "

[them]"yeah , alright , how do you even know that . are you a spy or something ?!?!?!"

[me]"watch this video ... "

[them] "oh my gosh ! what the fuck , that so messed up . "

[me] "wanna see my dog jump through a hoop !!! ; bc i dont beat her , and its practically the same thing with out the uncomfortable costumes the animals wear and the creepy ass clowns"

[them] "pshhtt , YES !"

I'd say "Didn't know you were such a FAN of Mental Illness! Did you know that in studying hundreds of Zoo & Circus animals it was determined that the repetative behaviors exhibited by almost ALL of the animals indicated a high level of Depression and Psychosis which contributed to their aggressive behavior when cornered or put in a tense situation?!?!?! True fact :(
1955nursehjc4me@myway.com

Circus ticket: $12
Parking meter: $2.25
Popcorn, cotton candy, hot dog, and a soda: $13.50
Sitting at home on a Saturday, eating tofu dogs and forwarding PETA2 e-mails: Priceless.

"How could you support that? Do you have any idea what those animals go through? If you want to see something funny, go watch a stand up comedian. There is no way I can talk to someone who supports animal cruelty just for their own fun."

Hey lets go to the circus!

"No I'm not going to support a sick and twistedly cruel buisness that forces Animals to give up their rights and dignity to put on a so called "show" that weakens not only their bodies but their mind. And if you had one hundredth as much as compassion as I do for Animals, you would do the same."

"You wanna come the circus with us?"

"OMG, Did you know that im psychic?"

"Really?"

"Yea, Its kinda spooky. I..I..can see... the tortured souls of the elephants from the circus. Spooky right? Wanna come to my house for some veggie dogs? I have some vegan mustard!"

"Yeah, let's go to the circus, right after we start some puppies on fire! Yeah, right. Going to watch that is participating and supporting the abuse and torture of innocent animals. Not cool, dude."

Circus huh? Do you know why they call them circus freaks? No, well only a freak without a soul could take part in the cruelty behind those red and white tents. How would you like to be taken out of your element, striped down and beaten to be put in a silly outfit and humiliated infront of millions of people? Go ahead and support the abuse of these animals who are only crying for your help. I will be at home making my own cotton candy, which is the only good thing at these freak shows.

you go to a circus, you might as well bring your own metal beating device to join in because all your doing is supporting cruelty to some of the most magestic creatures out there

Friend: I'm going to a circus this weekend. Wanna come?
Me: Hmm, I would, but I don't want to sit and watch poor, defenseless, abused animals be forced to do tricks, dance, or jump through hoops. I'm not in to animal torture. You know? I think I'll just go to the movies. Would you rather come there with me?

So you are going to a circus... ahhh... very interesting... so if an elephant started whipping a little boy in hopes of the boy being able to balance on a marble would you watch?

An animal would not want to force you to parade around miserably for an hour. Or keep you locked up in a cage. No animal would take you away from your family to travel non stop for almost the entire year. Animals would not beat you to make you do things that are unnatural to you. So why would you support that happening to them?

Someone::Hey!...I'm going to the crcus...

Me::Are you kidding me? Do you not know what they do to those poor animals behind the stage at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circuses?

Someone::No. What do they do?

Me::Ringling workers beat, whip and strike the elephants and tigers' heads, faces, ears, trunks, and legs with a bullhook, which is a hard metal thingy that's like a fireplace poker with a sharp hook on the end.

Someone::Are you serious?

Me::Yeah. And the workers don't even care how the animals feel. It just makes me soo mad how a person can be like that...Soo your not going to the circus anymore right?

Someone::No! Not anymore

I don't find a show about elephants and tigers being tormented into performing tricks entertaining!

i wouldn't say anything - instead, i would just show them the video on the of what goes down from the peta2.com website - it speaks for itself

Hey you gonna come with us to the circus?

No Way! How would you feel if you had to stay in a cramped cage, Fed little, and were whipped every day?

I would start by stating do they also like to govisit prisoners in jail- oh wait- the prisoners get better treatment- I really am disgusted at the way the animals have no freedom and are particiapting only because they are forced and abused -I would tell them save their money or donate it to a proper agency and not back animal toturers

i wouldn't tell them anything. i'd just sit them down and show them the video. because most people would just walk away if u try to tak them out of it, they need to see what really goes on behind the scenes.

(FRIEND):
Hey! We are going to the circus! Wanna come?

(ME):
WHAAAAAAAATTT??!!???

Are You kidding me? If I wanna pay for animal cruelty I rather go and buy a big nasty burger at McDonald's or KFC. Oh wait. I wouldn't. And neither should you. Plus, its not the clowns that scare me. It's all the the brutality and cruelty that all the circus animals must endure for our entertainment.

Still wanna go?

*Embarrassed and ashamed friend starts to cry and begs for forgiveness to all animals*

I'd like to see the circus goers crawling around onstage, getting poked and prodded, wishing they'd just be put down just to end the torture and humiliation. All while the animals are howling with laughter, enjoying the "show," and chowing on disgusting cotton candy and funnel cakes, of course.

Hey I got some tickets to see the Circus this weekend!! Let's go!

-Yea.. uh isn't there somethign else we could do? I can't watch that stuff. The animals are treated very poorly.. and with my animal-loving heart... I just can't bare to watch or support it. Let's go see a local band or a Beatles cover band!! Wanna go to Chicago Diner for dinner? It's my fave vegan restaurant! :)

Circuses aren't the only fun way to interact with animals. There are lots of options, like going on a wild safari or visiting the zoo, or even volunteering at a local animal shelter. These other options are much better because they allow the animal to lead a long and happy life, not a short and miserable one. I would never go to a zoo to watch animals perform tricks they were never meant to attempt, and I certainly won't bring my children to one.

I do not like the circus. For one they are scary expecially the clowns. And second I cant bear to just sit in the stands and watch the poor animals do the tricks the conductors are forcing them to do. It is just plain cruel. I would like to give them a piece of my mind about abusing animals. But anyway we all should go out and do all we can to help any animal we can. Its the best we can do in the wicked world.

Ohh, you're going to the circus? Huh. That's interesting.. It looks pretty entretaining and fun from where the audience sits, huh? That's pretty idiotic, don't you think? I mean, if circuses were ACTUALLY cool, they would have VIP passes, where you can go back stage. But they DON'T. And why? Because if you saw the back stage, you would see those stupid idiotic morons hurting animals. And who does that, you may ask? Sadistic ingorant people with a brain the size of a PEA! So, if you want to go to the house of the devil, you go right ahead. But, just so you know, going to that disgusting and torturing place makes you just as bad or even worse, because it's YOU the one that is paying the circus to hurt innocent creatures. It's YOU the one that's supporting their acts. Only cold-blooded and heartless people do this. So if you want to be THAT type of person, go. But if you want to be the BIGGER person, you know, the one with the normal-sized brain, don't go. There are better things in life other then torturing animals. Well.. as a matter of fact, ANYTHING, including eating dirt, is better than that.

I wouldn't go to a show that whips elephants.

I guess it would be something along the lines of:

"Wonderful, so I suppose it'd be alright then, if I imprisoned you, mistreated you, and forced you to perform inane tricks day after day in horrible conditions, merely for my amusement........because that is what a circus is, behind all the lights."

or

"Slavery among humans is illegal and fought against - why is it okay to enslave an animal?"

hey I wanna see a trick??well I would have to bullhook you for it,,,thats what they do in the circus if its not allowed in human society why would it be allowed in animal society eithier..I think the humans who could do such things 2 animals in the circus should just switch 2 the freak show..Animals dont need to be pierced in thier skin its not like they like it some humans might enjoy being whipped pierced or taken control of!! but i sure know animals dont!!

Once while shopping in Dillard's, I stumbled upon Ringling Bros. flyers placed on the counters of the jewelry, perfume, and makeup areas. I ripped every single one of them in half, right in front a Dillard's employee, found a garbage can, and tossed them. After doing so I explained why I disapproved of the Ringling Bros. circus by the information I read on the PETA website.

That was about four or five years ago, and there hasn't been an advertisement for the circus since :)

So if you are for going to a circus, are you for slavery?

"An hour show for your entertainment, is a lifetime of pain for these poor animals. How would you like your free will taken away from you? Stripped of your dignity? Torn away from your family? Beaten with bullhooks and beaten across the face? Then forced to perform a meaningless show to hundreds of creatures, the same creatures that beat you, over and over again? How would you feel? Every living creature has a right to live, so please, reject the circus and let the elephants LIVE."

listen while your their, do you think you could get me a bull hook, iv seen they are pretty commom there, and when im made for no reason, i just like to hit things, is that wrong? Did i say something to offend or freak you out?

"No animal especially Elephants Tigers, Lions, whatever animal you put in your deathtrap were put here for our joy, and its uncalledfor when people like you torment them because they aren't doing their "job" right. They don't know any better, they were not suppost to be raised this way anyway. They were put here to live like you and me and you're taking that away from them. Open your eyes and take a look at the world you greedy and heartless idiot. It's not all about the money. It's about the animals and how much more they deserve than to live like this."

Elephant: "Being abused is no circus!" =[

oh, so your going to the circus?????

well, i'll give you the circus right here. i'll beat you so you do as i request. thats what they do at a circus. still want to go?

"uummm,"
still not sure, why dont i beat you so you dont have any free will? make you go through a tiny ring of fire so you get burned. still going to the circus??

"uummm, no, that sounds painful." it probally is.

"I got tickets to the circus this week, are you going to purchase any?"

No I rather not. I believe circus's are a cruel freakish germy environment. I wouldnt want to take part of anything that has actual proof of animal abuse and some neglect. If I watched the show, not only will I be non-amused by clowns and more terrified than anything. But I would feel hurt and sadden by watching the animals perform in something they were forced into. Seeing visible wounds and those sad eyes in those innocent creatures, I would just be totally disgusted and angry. I wish they shut down circus's period.

"oh, you're going to the circus? Cool! Maybe you can be whipped and beaten just like the animals you're going to see!"

You are going to the circus to be entertained by animals being forced to dance?

Come over to my place and watch my little finch inside his cage. He is a funny little guy. I force him out of the cage because he goes back itno it. I have no idea why he does that.

He loves the dammed cage which is not normal for a bird. But well maybe its because he grew up in it...even though he would sleep with me since he had nightmares..if that's possible for a bird...lol... anyways come over to my place that little guy is awesome.

He is well fed and loves to sing and bathe. OMG! You can even watch him on his dailiy routine of bothering my two iguanas! He poops on them and then flies away. It's funny. But well georgy and victor don't like it.

You know my pets are trained but not like at the circus dude. These little guys are loved by my friends and familiy because of their amazing personalities. The animals at the circus are no different. They just ended up with bad evil people that don't appreciate them. When someoen behaves bad you don't beat them...you take away your attention. Then you tell them they are good because they did well to stop behaving bad.

I mean really..why would you want to watch someone suffer? If it was people being treated that badly I bet people would complain..but nooo since its an animal no one cares... don't be an idiot and don't pay to see suffering.
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if the person says no and it's a guy...well im cute enough to convince... lol

"OMG u like animal cruelty? i didnt know that"

Is one day of "entertainment" really worth the years of torture and pain that these animals have to endure? After you leave the circus and go on with your life of freedom these animals are moved around in small cages, forced to perform tricks that are not in their nature to perform, and constantly beat. They endure more mental and physical pain than any living creature should endure. Next time you think about watching live entertainment maybe you should consider picking something where the performers made the choice to put on a show for you.

Wow. Are you seriously going to go and sit there knowing those animals HATE life? So you can get a good laugh or 2? How about you put yourself in that elephants shoes. Being beating and whipped, being forced to perform infront of audiences everyday. Put in completely STUPID and probably uncomfortable outfits? Would you enjoy that? i didn't think so. Why dont you come with me and we will go to that circus and tell everyone else about what they are about to see.

Circuses are cruel places where animals are deprived of free roaming space and are abused by their handlers.

You wouldn't want to be forced to jump through hoops, so why would you approve, no scratch that, pay to watch these animals doing exactly that?

Circuses are cruel places where animals are deprived of free roaming space and are abused by their handlers.

You wouldn't want to be forced to jump through hoops, so why would you approve, no scratch that, pay to watch these animals doing exactly that?

Hey im going to the circus today

.... Really. . im sorry i i just dont think i heard you right, i might need to clean my ears, i thought u said circus but you really mean animal hell on earth right? yeh, thats what i thought u meant.

It's sad that the world has come to a place where people pay money to enjoy the pain and suffering of another being. And that money funds the abuse. Would you sink a bullhook into an elephant's nose to lead it around? Would you beat and cattleprod a tiger until it had no will to move? Would you burn the paws of a bear to make it stand straight? I'm guessing not... but if you pay to get into a circus, you might as well do all of those things yourself, because you're enabling it. The closest you'll ever catch me to watching the circus is on YouTube, when the animals start teaching the trainers tricks... like play dead.

Why, Why, WHy. Life is cruel enough without circuses. DO NOT GO and do not expose your kids to this cruelty.

If someone said they were going to the circus I'd ask them why and then tell them of a cruelty-free alternative that would be much more fun for them and the animals e.g. a theme park, the cinema/theatre or even a veg*n picnic!

It would probably go something like this..
"Hey you wanna go to the circus"
"No actually I wouldnt. Why would anyone want to pay to get to see animals being treated unfairly."
"But youll have lots of fun promise!"
"Fun? You call watching elephants being whipped fun? Or lions being taunted or seals being abused, if thats fun to you then there is something seriously wrong."

cirkus sucks, let the animals be free.
of course, my friends would just laught of me.. ;DD

idiot:OMG!The circus is in town want to come?

AWESOME person:NO.

idiot:Why not i thought you liked animals...don't you want to see the elephants and other ones?

AWESOME person:Yeah,i do love animals which is why i would never in my life attend a show where i know that the poor,helpless,little animals have been whipped,jabbed at,and tortured in soooo many other ways that you cant even imagine the amount of pain there in.So,yeah,i dont think ill be attending your worlds most painful show....now....or NEVER.

idiot:Ummm,yeah,clowns kinda scare me anyway.

AWESOME person:Good point,now that your know what really goes on in those tents you should spread the word about this horrible crime that has been right under are nose and check out PETA sometime theirs a whole lot more where that came from.

i want to win

I agree that the circus is cruel to those beautiful Animals.

"You know, people like you make me want to give mankind a beating."

You're attending the masquerade of animal abuse? I bet you're really proud of that. (sarcasm)

Your going to a circus? I would love to come, but I don't support cruelty to animals. And really, if you want to see an animal do some tricks, why don't you beat and whip your dog, see what happens!

You're going?! Wow, you are tough. Nevermind, I think you just don't have a heart. Do you know how tourtured those animals are? They are so mean to the poor elephants, they beat them all the time! Well, I guess I can't keep you from going. Have fun, and remember that everytime you buy a ticket, you're supporting the tourturing of those cute little elephants.

I wish that I was an elephant. Fame, glory and pride. Hundreds of people loving and worshiping the intellegence and fun of the circus elephant, yet they aren't sure themselves if they care for what else happens off stage.
I bet everyone wants to be one of these clever, charismatic creatures.?

i would say.

"how could you sit through something like that. its inhumane and incredibly disgusting. to think any human being with a heart could do that to those poor helpless animals just turns my stomach.
To beat them and show them off like they are something to laugh at, they have feelings too just like we do. They feel pain and they get sad. all animals of the circus deserve a better tommorrow, so please consider what i've said and dont go to the circus. you could be that one person, the one person to join in the fight against the circus. cause even 1 person can make a difference. Please help the animals that cant help themselves and don't go to the circus."

thats what i would say and hope they agreed.

If you knew someone beat their children, would you still watch in silence? If I told you that the circus is cruel and beats their innocent animals would you still be interested in going? These animals are beaten to do things they don't understand, they live in fear and sadness. YOU are supporting this cruel industry by watching it happen and saying nothing. Children and animals have something in common: they are both innocent and helpless. Don't support cruelty, rise up against it.

I would say not to go unless it's Cirque Du Soleil because the only circus attractions should be humans who choose to be there, not poor defenseless wild creatures that are tortured/abused/mistreated so people can have a "good time."

It makes no sense to want to see an animal in such an unnatural habitat. Watching massive animals such as tigers and elephants wearing hideous costumes is not teaching anyone anything. By going to a circus you are saying "It's okay to train animals, against their will to preform ridiculous tricks to make the masses of people laugh at the animals' misfortune" Encourage people to go to Animal Sanctuary's if they are interested in seeing animals in a safe and well kept habitat. IF you are interested in Circus's we should be more interested in shows such as "cirque du soleil" were animals are not put on display but you will still have an enjoyable and entertaining time.

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going to the circus may provide you with an hour of enjoyment but for the animals it provides them with a lifetime full of suffering.

Ok, so my little sister knows very little about the backgrounds of the circus.
She saw that one was soon to come to our town while we were on vacation, and I automatically FREAKED OUT.
She then immediately regretted the idea and hasn't gone to the circus since.
But here's something I would say to an older person:
"Circuses are somewhat like the movie, Saw. The trainers are like those sick, twisted people who would push the contestants of the game further. Seeing how far they could push the animal before they crakced. Using midevil equipment like hooks and whips. So, when you ask me do I want to go to the circus, that's like asking me, Hey do you want to watch a poor animal be ridiculed. So, to put this is lay man's terms...no."

Thanks.

"Sure! If you'll go see an execution with me Friday.."

Or

"Sure! Then you can come over to my house and we can torment the neighbor dog."

(Both sarcastically, of course)

Or...going a different direction:

"No thanks. My house is already a circus!"

seriously? animal abuse is so passe....

"hey do you wanna come to the cirus with me on saturday?"

Do you even know what a cirus is???

"ya of course I know what a cirus is I'm not dumb!!!"

well I wouldn't call watching some animal abuser push elephants around with a electraical prod a SMART
person's idea!!!

It's okay it's not your fault let's go on PETA2.com I will go cook us some veggie dogs

"ok that sounds good"

u kno i hope the animals break free and eat all of u and i would laugh at the sick people being eaten

I agree. It is so sad what they do to those animals. Sometimes the elephants have enough and go berserk, I don't blame them. I would love to win and wear this shirt to raise awareness of this issue.

Love to win. Please enter me, thank you

Cirsues are so cruel to their animals! I would much rather go to a circus without animals than watch elephants and tigers get whipped!

+ only stupid and heart less people watch those kind of show. freals. o.o

The circus? Do you want to go to watch tired, beaten elephants which have been beaten, whipped, and pulled along by hooks? Or maybe you would rather watch the tigers which have also been abused and beaten? Wait, you might even want to buy some ground up meat of cruely- treated animals wrapped in a pig's intestine. Yum, hot dogs. (gag face) Going there just promotes the behavior, and give them money to keep beating these animals. If you want to go, congrats, you are heartless.

My boyfriend wanted to go to the circus as a date. I explained to him that the torture and exploitation of animals is not entertainment to me.

The circus this Friday? Nah, I'm not going to attend the circus. It was fun and all when I was a child, but that was when I was ignorant to everything that secretly went on backstage. What goes on backstage? Well, most, if not all the animals are trained with cow prods, you know, those gigantic tazers? They're forced to do tricks that their anatomy is just, really, not meant for at all.
Not to mention....who in their right mind would wear a ridiculous costume like that and preform in front of hundreds of people only to get laughed at?
Wait, so you're not going anymore? Awesome!
Wanna go get some Vegan ice cream from Scoops off N. Heliotrope by Hollywood Blvd? Sweet! See you there in 10.

When i was 3years i went to the circus! there was a lighting storm. the tent collapsed! all i remember was panic and screaming!in a big tent! Looking back I though having lighting strike the tent and have it fall on everyone watching was traumatic and scary! But those who preform go through trauma and fear daily! The circus in my case was no fun! if everyone had an experience like mine no one would go! poor elephants!

These animals are meant to be wild, not to entertain the child.

Elephants remember. Have fun at the circus. They'll remember getting prodded and whipped while you stare at them eating peanuts, laughing, not knowing what pain they have inside.

"I know a way better way you can take your kids to see some animals. There's a great nature preserve here, where you can see all kinds of wild life in their natural habitat, doing what they love to do the most- living! And it's free! Circuses are cruel companies that don't take the animals feelings or well being into consideration. I don't know about you, but I want my kids to know that the animals in the circus are not happy and should never be there in the first place!"

Friend: Wanna go to the circus with me?

Me: Nah, I'm just not that into watching tortured animals try to perform just so that people can throw popcorn at them. Actually, I don't know who would be really into that...besides Hitler maybe.

Lions and tigers and whips, Oh my!

The animals do their tricks, and you get your kicks.
But If you think they are fun, then your knowledge of the circus has only just begun.
They're tortured and slapped, Taunted and snapped
And you just sit in the audience and add your 'claps'
So next time you go to those animals- well 'trained'
Just remember that only your bike should be chained.

"Hey, the circus is in town, wanna come?"

"No thanks, I'd rather not watch something be forecd to perform when they spend their whole lives being beaten until they get it right. Have you ever seen those videos on tv about how elephants go on rampages? And then we call the creature a walking demon? Step back behind the big top curtain and see what happens to them, I think they deserve a better life.I'd rather go see Cirque du Soleil, at least I know ringleaders aren't beating the preformers there."

friend - "Hey im going to the circus today wana tasg along?"
me - " wat!?!?! NO! i will not watch these poor defensless animals being forced to do things for ENTERTAINMENT! would YOU like it if i beat u everyday forcing u to jump around and do funny things for poeple, to where u cant get away your just forced day by day being beaten and doing stupid things so people cna get a good laugh?? all the while loosing your dignity and pride?!!?! Im sorry but i wont go to see such a stupid show!"

friend - "wat!?!?! i didnt know even know that! i thought the animals did it cuz they liked it.... we have to do something!"

me - "Exactly! wopuld u want to join up with me and some friends and protest outside of it tomorrow?"

friend - "YES!"

Why would you go to a circus?!
Don't you know that the animal are not treated the way they should be?

ANIMALS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR FRIENDS!

Not something to kill or torch er.

If you really love animals you would not support and waist your money on the circus, in fact you should join the peta2 street team and help the animals!

That's what I did!

LOVE ANIMALS, don't be cruel to them.

They're not cruel to us!

(After showing the person/telling the person the extensive proof of abused animals at the circus)

"So? What Would Jesus Do? Did God REALLY create animals to be abused, tortured or mock?"

"I'd rather not go to a place that promotes the abuse and torture of animals. Do you even know WHY they torture them? It's to break them emotionally so that they won't act the way they normally would in the wild where they are happy and free. Do you really want to go to a place that does that?"

So you like to be entertained by abuse animals and heartless entertainers?

"Oh so your going to the cruelest show on Earth; huh? Well just remember just remember when your sitting there watching those innocent animals, take a look at there legs. Your paying to see those wounds on there legs. Would you like to for people to pay to see you under extreme stress & being whipped? I didn't think so.

But luckily you can go to peta2.com to help out & stop Ringling Brothers.

Britney Spears is the only person who should ever make money off of a "Circus."
At least when she’s the ring leader no animals have to suffer.

Some One:oh im going to the circus today..

Me:have you seen dumbo?

Some One:yes!i think its sad when his mom gets whipped.

Me:thats what really happens.that part is sad right?

Some One:right.poor dumbo.

Me:then why are you going?they do the same thing,but not only with elephants but with lions,tigers,bears,girrafs,and other cute little animlas that shouldnt be caged!

Some One:NOO!!Poor dumbo and baby animals!!

Me:Then lets go protest!!!

Some One: OK PETA RULES!!!

Our Saying: "Circus Kingdom;Doomed Kingdom" Thanks SW

you are right on

Dude, I didn't know you were a sadist! You actually take pleasure in seeing animals being tortured at the circus? That's lame.

Don't run away with the circus. Really. If you've seen the stress and lack of care the animals have to endure, maybe you'll change your mind. It's all fun and games until somebody loses a life.

I would say... Do you have ANY idea what you are paying for? Your watching CRUEL "entertainment" How could anyone even concider that "entetainment" It is watching one of the saddest things on the face of the earth happen right in front of you! They stabb Elephants and tigers with electric prodes,hook them and whip everywhere all over their bodies 24/7! NO ONE IN THE WORLD DESERVES the way they are treated and you are paying pepole HURT them and scare them for live in so many ways! All animals have the right to be free and live a natrual amazing life just like we do!

I would say that i'm not a sick twisted person that likes to see inneconnt animals be tortured for our ammusment. All animals have rights weither there 2 tons or 2 pounds! Hurting animals for pleaser isn't ammusing. Its just as sick as rapists.

Animals feel too!

I would say that i'm not a sick twisted person that likes to watch animals bbeing abused for fun! Thats as sick as a rapist! If there thrown in jail ringling should be shut down!

Spend your time bettering the world on peta2.com instead :)

This was a real convo with me and a co-worker! (A few days ago)

CW: hey! I'm going to see the circus! I haven't been in YEARS!

ME: eww. Why? Last time I went, I was like four. After that, I started hearing about the way they treated their animals.

CW: so you're one of those Peta freaks too? Those animals LOVE being there. They get a place to stay, and fed too. In the wild, they get poached.

ME: (already FURIOUS) OKAY. So what's your favorite part of the "greatest show on earth"

CW: I've always loved the elephants.

ME: well, if you want to see an elephant preform tricks, just put you mom in some platform shoes and make her stand on one leg. Same thing! Actually, hand her the makeup kit first, and with her skills, you'll get an elephant and clown in one!

lol he was not too happy with this.

why would some one get a laugh out of a elephant or any animal haveing to preform in a cicus?
some animals are beat to do what the trainer wants.
iv never been to a circus and never will go.

I'd try and keep it brief. Nobody wants to be lectured or made to feel guilty. Instead, I'd give them an alternative that sounded like more fun.

For example, if one of my girlfriend's wanted to go to the circus with her family or friends, I'd tell her to go on a shopping spree with me instead! I'd also mention that it'd be a lot more fun then watching beaten and frightened animals try and put on a show...she'd probably ask what I meant by that, and wa-la! I've not only convinced her to not go, but can now share what really happens to animals in the circus. Then she might tell somebody...it's a win win.

If it was a guy, I'd bat my eyelashes and...haha, no. BUT I would try and get him to go to a movie with me instead! What kinda guy turns down a night full of popcorn and fun to go to the circus? If he still doesn't budge? I'd make him feel goofy for even having interest in one. I'd nonchalantly mention hanging with me would be way more fun then watching those poor animals; then I can tell him about why the circus ain't all it's cracked up to be.

"I'm going to the circus."

"I'd rather curl up in my gas oven and turn it on then go to the circus. I'd rather watch a Mary-Kate and Ashley film. I'd rather put my face in a waffle iron, because circuses support some of the most cruel practices I've ever known. The animals there survive hell for most of their painful, cut-short lives, dying slow painful deaths from the injuries they receive from their care-takers. They live a life of torture, and they have done nothing to deserve. No one could ever deserve their fate. And the worst part is, most people don't know their suffering. So, they PAY the people hurting them to watch the creatures suffer. Think about paying someone disgusting, putrid, vile, just to laugh at animals who have never know anything but the circus. People think of circuses as fun, nice places. I think of it as a diseased, horrible jail for innocent animals. Don't go to the circus. Don't support the circus."

You know, when I was a kid I loved the circus. I would go to the Ringling Brothers shows, and I was just the happiest kid in the world. I even have a lion mug to prove it. But then i grew up, and I never went anymore. I still loved animals though, so I went vegetarian. I discovered the secrets I never knew about animals. It just devestated me to know that the animals I watched as a kid at the biggest show on earth were treated unfairly, beaten and whipped all over their helpless bodies. I felt ashamed of being a child. I felt so digusting, to have paid those people to torture animals. And i know that kids are kids, and its better for them not to know this. But maybe as their parents you would understand that by attending that show, you are participating in and supporting the cruelty against those innocent animals.

I started thinking how elephants do not even have a chance for escape. whenever they rebel they are killed. How horrible to know there is no escape.

Elephants have to be my favourite animals. I love to observe them, but never would i want to do this at a circus! Why? Because these animals are treated morbidly and with dis-respect there. They are trained to do tricks and jump through hoops all for your entertainment. But do you understand what is behind this training? Constant beatings, screaming and yelling, absolute psychological abuse, and ultimately just plain torture. The beatings sustained by these innocent animals are extreme, and trying to imagine the pain and suffering they go through is just impossible. The only thing they're ever rewarded with is a quick lashing if they do one thing wrong. The marks on their legs and faces aren't just birthmarks, they're wounds from being beaten. PETA studies have also shown that many of these poor elephants suffer from arthritis and osteoporosis. These helpless elephants only suffer from these diseases because their human owners don't allow them enough room to walk around freely. Elephants are large, beautiful creatures that belong in the vast beauty of the plains of Africa and the gorgeous jungles of India. Elephants have never been found to live wildly in small tents in North America, so why are we keeping them there? I would never want to be forced into a small 6 foot by 6 foot room for the rest of my life, it would be against my will and my rights. I would definitely fight to be free, but these creatures don't have voices of their own. We need to stand up for these elephants, because their rights and lives matter too. I think these animals should be free, and the only way this is going to happen is if we take a stand. Stand up for animal rights, because they are Gods creatures too, and if we don't protest this circus, who will?

I watched the video of the trainers hitting the elephants and I cried...I would have loved to watch the trainers being whipped instead. The circus should be outlawed. Every mother, father and child should stand up for all the poor animals and say NO MORE! Parents should teach their children that it is nothing but animal cruelty.

Aw, hell no! I don't think going to a circus is a good idea! There's a reason why the people in the circus are called "circus freaks" and in my opinion, it's because it takes a freakin messed up person to abuse, harm, and prod these beautiful, innocent animals to where they go crazy, and then they kill them. How messed up is that? Think of cruelty-free options, go to the movies. Besides, you're scared of clowns, aren't you? I thought so. :)

please do not go to the circus. it may seem like a fun idea but what you are witnessing is animals that are abused and sad, it is not a fun show. you should feel guilty and bad about paying to be a witness to these crimes support wild life living in the wild by not going and telling your family and friends not to go and find a better, more humane way to entertain your self. i bet you will feel better about your self if you make the humane choice. no circus!

Oh, so you're going to the circus tomorrow? You're paying thirty bucks to see tortured animals preform? I BET that's fun, isn't it?
OH, what's that? You're not going to the circus anymore, you were just kidding?
Thought so.

"Let's put you in the circus and make sure you get tortured like the animals, then we'll see if you ever go back."

Im going to the circus this weekend!

Really? Your going to the circus? To watch what? A wild animal forced to be tame? A baby elephant stole from its mother forced to do tricks? What if it was your baby? Would you watch then? Would you laugh and giggle and eat your cotton candy? While helpless an infant is tortured for your pleasure?! While a lion is forced to jump through fire? Can you smell the burning flesh? Does that please you? Knowing your supporting this cruelty?? While elephants are chained so tight it rips into their flesh, day by day deeper and deeper till finally she cant take it anymore and falls to the floor. Then the crack of the whip, but she cant, no more! She screams. Are you happy? Comfortable? Having fun? Guess what, animals scream to.

"Hey Holly I'm going to the circus wanna come!!!"

Nah going to the circus may be fun for you...I guess but think about the poor animals! You think you're afraid of clowns when they're performing at the show? Imagine them behind the scenes, coming at you with a sharp metal hook and stabbing you with it to make you do monotonous tricks? That's what those poor animals have to do every single day when they train for the circus. If that isn't bad enough you're confined to small cages and fed food that makes cafeteria mystery meat look gourmet! yea it's gross I know. Lets go watch my cat play with a ball of yarn that's twice as cute and 40 times more humane!

"hey are did you go to the circus? it seems really cool!"

"if by cool you mean watching an innocent animal thats been beaten, abused, and neglected that are forced to perform in front of thousands of people because its afraid of being beaten, abused and neglected some more,...than no im not going. and you shouldn't either, you add to their pain and suffering"

Me: "You are going to pay these so called "people" to brutally expose creatures that have NEVER, done anything wrong, just so you can get a kick out of watching an elephant step on a stool, out of pure, human induced terror."

Other person who is attending circus: "No! I would never do such a thing! I'm just taking my kids so they can ride an elephant!"

Me: "That is just as bad, maybe worse! Those "Trainers", train by whipping the poor things to do those "beloved" tricks!"

Other person who is attending circus: "What are you talking about? Circus animals have great lives; they have animal-human relations, lots of space to roam when they stop for breaks, and they get fresh food and quality water supplies, right?"

Me: "No, you are horribly wrong. Now, just listen to me, I'm not a crazy hippie, we have media proof! Check out this link and watch this video, please, for the animals."

Other person who is attending circus: "Okay."

The next day...

'''Phone rings'''

Me: "Hello".

Other person who is attending circus: You were right! I sent the link to all of the other mothers taking their kids to "The Cruelest Show on Earth, thank you!"

-grimm.

how could u go to the circus?!?!?!?!?!?!?! dont you know they tourcher the animals????? well i would rather not go see animals that will eventually get beaten to death. have fun while it gets humiliated in those stupid costumes.bye bye.

hey! why you be going to the circus homie g? You wanna be mean?You wanna support an industry that thrives on animal cruelty? Well go ahead buster! Be a circus freak! Cause normal people dont go to circuses,circus freaks do!

wanna go to the circus homie g?well go ahead?You wanna support an industry that thrives on animal cruelty?Go ahead, be my guest buster! Only circus freaks go to circuses!THEN MURMER UNDER BREATH,"LOSER". posted by olivia diaz

Do you honestly enjoy watching these poor animals suffer this way? I don't know about you, but I HAVE A HEART. I can't bear to watch them helplessly and in pain. It's completely wrong, and you have no sympathy if you pay money to watch it.

NO sorry I'm a Peta2 and PetaKids girl so I'm not going with you and I never will because of the tourcher to the elephants but you can go if you want to or you can become a Peta2 and PetaKids girl like me. I hope you make the right deceision. Goodbye for now see you around my neighbor BYE!

Hmn doesnt sound like such a GREAT idea to me, remember what Iv'e told you about animals murdered every day, (yeah) believe it or not but Curicuses have some contribution of that (NOOOO) yeah, sadly they do. Just imagine you were an elephant with small marble-like pitch black eyes and fluffy tough skin working day after day performing for something that will soon be forgotten the next day! Not only that but your also beaten with a whip or a thick hard steel wire! Elephants in particular live through this day after day for year! eventually their mental health gets worse by the day. Just imagine, thats your life right there and theres NOTHING you can do, so now tell me what you think of the circus thats if your still interested in going...

Have you SEEN Dumbo?

I was so shocked and upset about Ringling Bros. behaviour shown in Peta's undercover investigation of the circus that I found myself crying and can't understand how anyone can think this behaviour is acceptable?! I just wonder how these circus staff/ organisers would feel to be beaten into doing tricks and forced in to a large crowd in stupid costumes that weren't comfortable for them?

And to think they want to make a video game or this travesty? I still can't believe that these animals abusers aren't put inside seeing as there's video evidence!This world is so corrupt... :(

When you think of a circus,what do you think of? Lighthearted fun? Clowns? The animals? Circuses may be fun.....for you. Think of all the poor elephants that are forced to perform the stunts, some very dangerous...That have been forced to live in such tight quarters...such cruel conditions. The circus trainers "train" the poor creatures by whipping them. I've read countless stories of the elephants people go to the circus to watch perform..of them getting injured and then the circus owners don't properly clean and treat their wounds. I've also heard stories of elephants turning on their "owners" because of how cruelly they have treated them. And what about the tigers? The monkeys? They keep them in cages...much too small..and very unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthy living conditions. Please. Next time you think of "The greatest show on Earth", think of the poor creatures behind it. Thank you.

I went to the Circus, I didnt know about what they do to the animals, I saw the peta2 street team outside of the stadium. I remember arguing with my mom that I wanted to be outside with the street team. I didnt enjoy myself at all.

The thing i would say to someone attending the circus would be that, whilst they were there to take a moment or two to look at the animals that they are watching being made to do things, I would ask them how they would feel if that was them in that position being proded and pushed all over the place, and ask them if they think the circus is as fun as it looks. Im sure they're oppinion would be different. Besides it aint entertainment to watch animals suffer in pain whilst over 200 people watch in joy. Just shows what sort of world we live in. I know what side im on and it isnt animal cruelty. Something should be done about it. soon.

We I was young, my parents take me to the circus. I was so impress of all the shows that I saw. But after some years and some reflexion, I was so impress than people were able to learn these crazy tricks to the animals and specialy the elephants.And when I learn than the elephants of the circus are beating, the little girl in me had an heart breaking and I felt so bad to have been a spectator of this show. I can be sure of one things, when I'll have kids I'll never bring them to the circus.

Myriam

how about I put you in a tiny tent, full of loud noises yelling at you, make you be ridden, wipped, tortured, and mocked, while a different person gets plesure out of it.

oh sure! how about I put you in a tiny tent, full of loud noises yelling at you, make you be ridden, wipped, tortured, and mocked, while me and everyone else get plesure and enjoyment out of it. how about that? yeah of course I would love to go to the circus.

"I'd rather get whipped for hours on end and be forced to perform meaningless tricks by a man in a top hat... you know, like circus elephants do."

the circus shouldn't be for entertainment for young ones. Specially if you are going to treat animals in a hurtful way. Ever since i saw what an elephant had done when it got mad. I was SO glad because that should teach them a lesson. Animals aren't ours we don't own them besides there defenseless. I don't see the point in eating or hurting an animal. If you wanna live longer don't eat meat. Think about it animal steroids are entering your body. So is innocent blood. I love animals and the circus should stop abusing. It's just not right. I've been a vegetarian 3 years now and i feel better than i ever have. I'm better at any sport and healthier. So please take a minute and look at the face of a defenseless innocent animal. Think about what it must feel how in it's head it wonders what it did wrong. Put yourself in its place and think about how you wouldn't want to get treated that way. Thank You.

Circuses are cruel to animals!! Can you really have a good time there when you know that the animals are submitted to all kinds of abuse?! If you can, then you don't have a heart.

The circus shouldn't be for entertainment for young ones. Specially if you are going to treat animals in a hurtful way. Ever since i saw what an elephant had done when it got mad. I was SO glad because that should teach them a lesson. Animals aren't ours we don't own them besides there defenseless. I don't see the point in eating or hurting an animal. If you wanna live longer don't eat meat. Think about it animal steroids are entering your body. So is innocent blood. I love animals and the circus should stop abusing. It's just not right. I've been a vegetarian 3 years now and i feel better than i ever have. I'm better at any sport and healthier. So please take a minute and look at the face of a defenseless innocent animal. Think about what it must feel how in it's head it wonders what it did wrong. Put yourself in its place and think about how you wouldn't want to get treated that way. Thank You.

You disgust me and if you go to the circus im going to do the same thing to you that they do to animals in the circus! Someone has to stick up for them!

"How 'bout I whip you and make you work for peanuts? How entertaining would it be then?"

agentvixx@gmail.com

I'd say, are people coming to see you?

well i would say, "have'nt you ever heard of whats been going on the past years? for your entertainment, animals must go though neglagence, abuse, and mistreatment. Don't you remember Dumbo? That movie is so true, but it's just that in real life animals in the circus don't always have a happy ending."

"Hey, you, animal torture is fun for you right? Well for me it makes me want to torture you. It isn't fair to make elephants wear skirts and hats and have to be tortured and put through stupid things, I sure wish I could do that to you."

Tara.

If I knew someone that was going to go to the circus I would probably say something like, "What do you think about animal cruelty, using animal hooks and inhumane methods of keeping animals?" and see what the person has to say. I wouldn't sugarcoat the facts after that and I would just let them know supporting circuses, like Ringling Brothers, aren't the best decisions to make.

you're kidding right?
so you're going to go support the mass torture of an already endangered species?
oh and not only are you supporting it, but you're going to WATCH it and CLAP and CHEER for all the BULLSHIT thats going on around you?
you're disgusting.
you like whips? how about electrically-charged whips?
sound like fun to you?
who's the one cheering for this, huh?
cuz i dont see you smiling about it.

YOU CANNOT DO THAT, Think about the example you are setting!! Think about what you are contributing to!! The circus can be fun and should be fun but not if it involves unethical treatment of such beautiful, majestic creatures. Animals should be loved and respected, and not abused, please rethink the circus, let's eat Tofu!!

oh... i didn't know you liked torture. oh well. i'm going to the mall!

and then they would be like wait... what?

and i would explain to them what happens!

(m=me and f=frend)
f::"hey want to go to the circest with me?"
m::"i would never partisapate in something that awfll"
f::"what do u mean"
m::"well ur sitting in your seat waching the elefents do triks, back stage where the screms and crys for hellp are sealled. they are wiped and eletrafide to death just so u can sit there waching some torcher on stage that you paed to hapen."
f::"how do u no this is true cuz i could be a lie"
m::"u konw peta?"
f::"ya ur littel animal rites grop"
m::"thats the on. well they went under cover, and while under cover they saw thing that no animal human or evean a tree should go throw."
f::"well if u have solid prof than i will not go but you mite want to tell my mom and dad why."
m::"okay i tell them. and howabout insted of going to the circes u come over to my plase and we can go to Fundashon than back to my houes and ill show u all the prof and the vid."
f::"that sounds better than any circes ever will!! see u tomarow"
m::"bye see u tomarow"

I would but now that I know wat those poor animals, especially the elephants, go through, there is no way I could possibly bare to sit and watch the results of forced and tortured animal traning for our selfish entertainment. If going to a circus and watch physically abused animals being forced to sacrifice their lifes and freedom is what everyone calles a good time then call me boring but atleast I'll be at peace by not supporting these heartless monsters that put those animals through all of that pain and sorrow. So.... do u still wanna go or do you wanna go to this great vegetarina cafe i know of?!! =]]

them: Hey wanna go with to the circus with me,i heard it was really cool!"

Me: (sarcasticly)"oh yeah so cool that hundreds of anaimals suffer by animal abuse.Its 'really cool' how so many people think its 'ok' todo that for entertainment purposes!honestly i'd rather be stuck spending the day with ms.blake(bitch science teacher) than to ever go to one of those things! Why don't we go out to a movie instead?

Cool!Making animls do dangerous tricks is so much fun!The funnest part is knowing that the animals are whipped are forced to do stupid things.

Circuses are for clowns nit animal cruelty!

it would go down like this:

Person: "hey guess what, im going to the circus"
Me: "so you support cruelty?"
Person: "uh... no?"
Me: "well the circus may be entertainment for you, but its definitely not for the poor animals that are beaten until they perform the amazing 'tricks' you see. they are treated very cruelly and put under severe stress. these animals dont live happy lives, and thats not fair. you really want to expose your children such glorified cruelty?"
Person: "wow, im not going now"
Me: "great! tell you friends, spread the word!!!"

ypu, thats how itll go down. :)
pick me!

A Friend:
"Sarah said your not coming to the circus with us, why won't you come?"

Me:
"I am sorry, but going to a torture zone does not interest me. I feel by attending a place that you experience live torture is despicable. By paying for your entry your keeping the people that put these poor animals in pain, distress and are responsible for many of them not ever seeing daylight, in business, your basically paying the workers salary, or contributing to it anyway. I personally couldn't live with myself if i did that, and answer me this, how can you?"

A Friend:
Silence.

Me:
"If you don't believe me, check out Peta2.com, you can even watch a video filmed by uncover investigaters, and then my friend, you'll have proof of the horrendous metal and physical torture these poor animals are being imprisoned to put up with, and you'll be able to believe me."

You are taking your children to the circus? You need to be prepared! Are they going to wear chains on their legs so they can be controled? Will you take an electric prodder to keep them in line or a whip to beat them if they don't do what you want?
What a learning experince for your children, they will understand what it is like to be a circus preformer...

"Oh, really you're going to circus? Well, why not just stay home and I'll force your dog and cat to do unrealistic and back-breaking tricks for your own personal amusement. Then, after that we can beat them into cages! It's all the fun of the circus without going!"

i would say
"why would you even go what the point really seeing boring old trick happen every year an plus sooo many animals are abused and totured,and how cruel an heartless the trainers are an the people who work there all money grubing mineless people that just wrong and you want to take your child even if you knew i told you what they do you'd just have the worst guilty conues in the world!"

i lol just wouldnt really say that but it would if they wanted to get into a heated convo about it :)

I'm sure when you were little and you went to the circus, you said "look mommy, there's the elephants and ringleaders!" not, "look mommy, there's the ringleaders punching bag & the horrible guy who does it!" if people are more aware of what people do to animals at the circus, or even any business, we could run them out of there business & show them what the deserve. DAAA don't allow animal abuse, ever.

"Hey I'm going to the circus tomorrow. Wanna come?"

"Hell no. Excuse my language. The trainers beat their animals and I don't support that! You shouldn't either. Animals are helpless. So your going to pay $ to support the beating of helpless animals??? That's cruel... you must have no heart..."

"Ummm, Yea, I wonder what YOU would look like all caged up until they'd want to prance you around thousands of people to do special tricks! Now THAT'S something for the BIG TENT!!"

Seriously, are you really going to pay money to see abused animals just getting humilated? It's not fun, funny or anything of the such. If you still wanna go, visit RinglingBeatsAnimals.com and tell me if you'd STILL wanna go. If you STILL wanna go after that, then I might have to use a bullhook to knock some sense into you!

Idf I knew someone was going to attend the circus I might say something a long the lines of, "If someone could train your dog or cat neat little tricks for free, that'd be awesome right? What if you learned they were using treats to train them, that would be even better right? Well, what if someone told you they were planning on training you dog or cat by whipping them, eletricuting them or some other harmful treatment, you'd hightail it out of therem, correct? Then why is it ok, for you to go to the circus to pay money for people to do things to those animals you'd kill them if they did to yours?"
Akudo McGee keysaysmeow@aol.com

"Would it be fun to see you do tricks in front a crowd of animals?"

I would rather not support the torture of the tiger that will be locked up in the cage basically for he entire day for days straight, being tortured hours on ened like yu would not imagine, the abuse, the evilby the "so-called workers", rather torturers,
oh and i REALLY would not like to view the tricks the elephants have been tortured into learning when they hooked hookes through the elephants noses and poked/stabbed them with stakes OH and when they chain their legs with cuffs so there really is no way for the elephants to free themselves from the torture they live throtugh each and every days 365 DAYS A YEAR. I really dont want to got to a circus freak torture show; it only supports this torture for the poor babies i love,
if anything ill be there protesting TORTURE; PROTECTING the animals, our lovely babies, are you planning on going?

How can you attend an event that tortures animals for you own amusement? I really thought you were better than that.

ACTUAL CONVERSATION WITH MY BOYFRIEND

Boyfriend: *looking at circus flier*

Me: Don't even think about it buddy. How would you like to be beaten with a bullhook, cursed at all day, chained, starved, exposed to the heat and cold for hours, even days on end, and then forced to perform for hundereds and thousands of people? Sad people who get entertainment out of suffering, and are too blind to see that the circus is no circus for the animals.

Boyfriend: We'll go to the ice-rink instead.

Dude, seriously? You get amusement out of watching hurt and mega tired animals perform out of fear? Thats pathetic. Thats supporting abuse. Eff that. I recommend you dont go.

lolz all around.

O wow are you really going? Because if you are maybe you would like to know what they do to the poor elephants and tigers! Well maybe you shouldn't but I on the other Hand would never step foot in a circus! Just to let you know!
maggijune1@hotmail.com

"you must think being hit with a bullhook is fun !"

the circus is no place for children. Your showing kids that torturing and abusing animals is fun. If you really want to stop animal abuse then you need to stop from the begining. A circus is like a clown they may look fun and happy on the outside but on the inside they're scary dirty and full of lies. So stop the abuse by stop going to the circus.

I would say " sure its really fun to watch but it is not fun for the poor elephants. or any animal preforming in that matter. how would you like it if i taught you tricks and whipped you until you got it right? it shouldn't be called a circus, it should be called torture, because thats all it is"

-Hey, Want to go to the circus with me?

-What? Don't you know that they hurt those poor animals? How could you do that? They are tourchured. You know that animals can feel pain to, right? They have feelings just like you and I! Everyday they are hurt and tourchured just so some people like you can go have fun at some stupid circus. When you are paying to get in, your paying to have an animal tourchured and abused everyday! No way am I going! You should go vegan like me! Don't eat meat! Don't let animals get hurt! Here come with me and i'll take you to show you how you can sign up on Peta2.com and help stop the madness!

-Ya know what? You are so right! This all needs to stop!

"wow, really now? you really wanna go see animals that are whipped if they do the slightest thing wrong in training? Hm...well next time you feel like be treated like crap like them, call me, ill do the honor. :)"

excuse me..? your going to the circus really? how would you like it if you had to do hundreds of shows a year dressed in a silly outfit thought of as purely entertainment and not be properly taken care of. you wouldnt enjoy it as much if you were the animal would you?

oh yeah going to watch some poor animals get whipped is always fun. are you serious?! just imagine being that poor elephant. it gets whipped and tortured all its life. trained to be whipped and just be scared of humans. and for what? for you to go pay money to watch these poor things. and what do you do, laugh. now, if you actually want to support this. I'm not going take part. but if you change your mind, we should go and tell the rest of these people what they are wasting their money, and time on.

I would say I hope you enjoy it.

Hey, are you going to the the circus?

No! I cannot stand to see those people treat those poor innocent animals that way.. i may only be 13 but i do understand that its unnacceptable for those selfish, rude people to treat the elephants and tigers the way that they do! And i would really prefer that you didnt go.. i mean i do understand that you want your kids to see that circus and enjoy it but theres really nothing to enjoy about torturing animals.. And you know we can stop this cruelty if you spread the word to your friends and family, then we can stop this cruelty together.

No, I won't be joining you when you go to the circus... Those poor, abused animals have to be TERRIFIED! Have you seen the way they're treated as slaves and forced to do things that don't come naturally, simply for our amusement? HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEN DUMBO?? Remember how alone and frightened he felt? I know you're a good person -- do you really want to contribute to more Dumbos feeling that way? ...I didn't think so. Let's go to the airport or mall and people-watch instead. Humans are fascinating! It's free, fun, and most importantly, nobody gets hurt. : )

I am 35 years old and I have never been to the circus and I never will.

I'd say, "How would you like to be trained to perform in front of a bunch of laughing people"!

omgg ur going to the circus they abuse their animals so u can have what u call a "good time" ok put it this way would u want people coming to watch and want u to get abused no everyone says that but u have to think about it more put urself in that animals position now do u want to go to the circus now???

Elephants are such beautiful and pure animals how could you stand to watch such a wonderful creature be put in pain. ive protested at LA zoo for billy the elephant they deserve the best sanctuary possible. they would never hurt you and look in their eyes. so gentle and calm this is outrageous. We to boycott and stand up for whats right! Im a vegetarian and do everything i can for elephants. To hurt such defenseless animals shows what kind of state of mind you have or to watch. Ghandi said so himself "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

I would show them all the stuff that happens in circus after i turned into a vegetarian I managed to make some of my friends vegetarian. But I know that is totally different. So I would show them videos and pics. stuff like that.

i would say, Why are you encouraging them to hurt the animals. They never did anything bad to you or their trainers. what they do is wrong, and you know it. they should be in an animal sactury and here where they are miss treated.
So are you still going to the show?

Your going to watch an animal suicide show? thats not right, you do know, its the cruelest show on earth, might be fun for you, but its not fun the them.

I hope one of these days someone looks you in the eyes and makes you feel all the suffering, all the suffering you've made all these poor defenceless animals go through, I hope no one gives you any pity ever. You are a disgusting waste who deserves nothing better than rejection amoung all society for the rest of your days.

Barnum and Bailey forcefully takes baby animals away from their parents, just for human entertainment.
You wouldn't let this happen to YOUR children.
Why let it happen to theirs?
Think about it.

-I'm going to the circus
-The circus? You're actually paying someone to use bullhooks, whips and electrical shock prods to torture animals which were most-likely torn from their mothers and taken out of their natural environment at a young age to be dragged around the country and kept in cramped, unhygenic conditions and to perform unnatural and unnecessary tricks? Boycott animal circuses. You can choose - they can't.

You're going to the circus? Why not come over to my place instead? I've got ropes for tying you to the wall, and I'll borrow my grandmothers cane to beat you with. We'll invite the neighbor kids over for the human circus, starring you, and this way you can take part in the whole experience. Sounds fun, yea?

hey guess, what i got tickets to go to the circus!

You're really going to a circus? Sounds like fun... that is if you like seeing poor animals be abused and tortured just for your mere entertainment. I know i wouldn't go, i wouldn't want to support the fear in those animals eyes, i would be afraid too. well, anyways, if you change your mind we can hang out.

"Hey, I've got an extra ticket to the circus, wanna come with?"

(Wearing "The Cruelest Show on Earth" Tee)
"Read the shirt"

Circuses take animals from their homes and beat & torture them into performing dangerous tricks. Animals aren't meant to live on this earth as a form of shallow entertainment. Are you really going to help fund the abuse of these animals?

Okay so i was listening to 107.9 the end in Sacremento. They said that they were giving out free tickets to go see Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey.Before this I had gotten a emial from peta saying that there was a demostration for Ringling brothers cruelty... I asked my mom to go but she said no theni was cancelled... Any way. I checked out what peta had to say... I got mad, sad angry, and excited, excited for all the things i could do since it was comeing to sacremento... anyway... So when 107.9 the end said they were giving them away and that people should go see it i texted them and told them these things.... ( this is right from my phone...) This is the first i sent...

PLease dont advertise Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey, they are mean to their animals, they use bullhooks wich are sticks with hooks on them that they use to hit the elephants on their legts and faces. Please, just by not mentioninf it you can help stop this abuse of the animals the animals. Thank you.

-Megan

They were talking about it agian and i said:

Please dont promote barnum and bailey circus they are mean and hurt and abuse their animals.

That time they actually responded and said: TheEnd:thanks megan...

Argh i though it finaly got threw then... it happend AGIAN! heres what i said... i was starting to get angrery...

Please dont advertise the ringling brothers they abuse their animals!!! Its soooooooooo cruel!!!They really abuse their elephants! At least advise people not to go!!! Or dont give away the tickets please!! Its not fair to the other elephants and the other animals!

Now i was really angery...they gave away the tickets to a mother being harrased by her child to get them for her...

PLEASE dont advertise Ringling brothers they abuse their animals!! How would you like to bbe tottaly taken aways from your family, humiliated infront of peopl and be locked in a cage when you should be free with your friends! How would you lick to be whipped and hit witha a sharp ogject called a bullhook. I have nothing agianst the end and love the end!!! But please you can do so much by doing something so little... Please. Thank you for listening.

-Megan

it still happened and i still text every time it does... Please help me and text them until they stop, until its not worth it any more.. Thank you :) on 7/13 they are changing their number to 73389 but today 7/30 its 51909

-Megan

I once rode on a camel at the Bronx zoo. It was five dollars a ride. The money went to the support fund of helping to care for the animals in the zoo. The camels were treated well, every so often they'd be given breaks and drinks. The zoo is a place for the animals to have a good life, being raised in a healthy habitat. At the circus..? Have you ever been ? I know I have. My parents took me when I was 4, me and my sister. I can not deny that. I was young. As I have gotten older, that camel ride has really taught me alot. When you ride and elephant at the zoo.. do you know where that money is going towards ? The torture of all the animals forcefully being trained to do stunts that are not natural. Don't support that, don't attend the circus, when you know the animals are being forced into unhealthy living styles and treatment. It's not right, it really isn't. Take a ride on a camel at the Bronx Zoo, maybe it will give you the same picture it has given me about the Circus.

"I'm going to the circus."

"I don't want to feel like a bother, and seem like I'm lecturing, but I really want to make sure you are aware that animals are mis-treated at the circus. They are abused both physically and emotionally. They have feelings. The can feel the pain they are forced to endure. They can sense your gaze burning through them as you watch them perform things animals should NEVER have to do. They shouldn't be in captivity, they should be roaming free. To you, a circus is entertainment. To an innocent captivated animal, it's the cruelest show on earth. I don't support it, I hope what I've said gave you self-awareness and pierces through your heart as you watch."

"you're heading to the circus...?

next time you're gonna be chained and put in a box car for 26 hours and then picked and prodded to perform, tell me how you feel, because i doubt you'd want anyone paying to go watch you be tortured."

I would tell them what I have told many people over the years. Why would you want to go to a place that captures animals, imprisons them, tortures them, and makes them perform tricks they do not want to perform in front of hundreds of shouting, laughing, and clapping humans? How is that entertaining? Not to mention the clowns are scary as hell! Imagine being a confused animal looking at a human with bold colors and paint all over there face in some strange and demented grimace making all sort of bizarre noises and acting out of character- eeep! Why would any decent human being want to support such a horrific display? How could you?

NO, I do not want to go. I do not condone what they do to those animals.

If someone told me they were going to the circus, this is what I would tell them:

"You're going to support the cruelty that these defenseless animals face? Why don't YOU join the circus? Then the trainers can stick some bullhooks in you when all you do is stand there and do nothing. Then maybe you'll understand what these poor animals go through EVERY SINGLE DAY!"

"Hey, I am going to circus, are you?"

"Of course I am. An animal-free circus. Circuses with animals are filled with extreme cruelty and electric prods. Did you know that Ringling has even killed elephants?"

"No, I didn't know that."

"Yes, so would you please sign the petition at circuses.com and attend a protest with me November 23, 2009."

"Of course I will sign the petition, but I will have to check my schedual about the protest."

Circuses are cirtanly cucky. I know that they are misspelled. I thought it was clever. Anyway, animals deserve better.

I would say, "So your going to the circus for fun right? Are you taking your kids, because its not really a place for children Do you knowwhat these animals go through, its not much fun for them. They spend their whole lives living in fear, bad conditions and pain. THey dont get a choice whethether or not they want to perform, or wear "cute little outfits" and parade around stage. I bet if you looked a circus animal in the eye, you would not be filled with fun and laughs, but sadness and guilt."
Thats what I would say. And I would mean every word.

I think circusis are HORRIBLE! They are not write to the animals. I dont know why anyoe would want to do something like that. I know people see it as intertament, but why. I know the first time that i went I felt sooooooooooo sorry For the poor animals. They have to do stupid tricks for us. They dont look HAPPY!. Why would you want to see something sad for?They only have limmited SPACE!. These animals need to be understood more, and i think that this shirt will be the PERFECT way to show that people do care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you know that those animals, like the elephants are abused and forced to do tricks just for the enjoyment of the people watching. I dont approve of that, and neither does PETA. I wouldn't go to the circus if i were you.

i would show them the video then i wouls explain that animals are not here to exploite but to live their lives like us. and i would invite thm to go somewhere else like the movies

do you know what they do to those animals !? How about you look it up !

My little sister recently asked if we could go to the circus.
I told her how cruel they are to the animals and what the do to them. I showed her the video too. She then told my mom that she never wanted to go to the circus again unless she could rescue all the animals. It was the cutest thing ever, but I'm glad I changed her mind! I couldn't stand sitting through another Barnum & Bailey torture act.. And I'm terrified of the clowns, lol.

No, i cant watch the circus. I will think of what goes on behind the walls. The beating of the animals is distgusting. You pay to see dying animals. Your money goes toward more things to torcher the animals with. I will not support such an awful cause.

No, for some reason animal torture doesnt really seem like entertainment to me.

"Hey are you going to the circus tonight in town today," My friend, Cilaeria, asked.
"No, are you insane? Do you know how badly those people treat those poor, defenseless animal?" I answered.
"No, explain for me,"she asked.
"Well for one, animals should not be locked up or displayed for peoples amusements. They should be put back in their natural habitats. Those animals are poorly treated than you think they are. Would you be able to stand an elephant or a tiger screaming in pain, while their being whipped by their owners? I couldn't possibly stand to hear an animals scream of writhering pain. Elepants and other animals are not borned to be able to ride bicycles, stand on their head, balance ball ,or even jump through a ring of fire. Those animals were tortured and slaved by their owners to do them. They use all sorts of thing like whips, tight collars, muzzles, bullhooks, and other painful ways to teach animals to do that kind of stuff. Animals are beautiful creatures. What if humans, like us, were slaved to entertain people that way. How would you feel to be whipped to jump through a hoop of fire? Thats how those abused animals feel. Animals should be set off to roam in the wild not to be displayed for our entertainment. I hope that answers you question." I finally answered back.

why would you go to the circuses? there is no reason for u to pay to see animals do dumb tricks. there is no reason for it, aniamls are not on this earth for our entertanment and they will never be.

Since my friends are at the age where they still go to the circus I would tell them the truth about what they really see when they go there. I would tell them, " Behind all the cuteness and intelligence of the elephant there is also pain and abuse that the elephant had to take in order to become a circus elephant." Besides elephants I am sure that there are other animals are hurt as well. All because people want to pay for so called "harmless" entertainment.

"I'm going to the circus."
Oh really? Well, I hope by your choice to go to the circus you've also decided to support cruelty, and contribute to the unhappiness and living hell these beautiful animals go through. For years circus' have been under scrutiny for the inhumane ways these animals are treated. And now thanks to the work of PETA some people have been able to refuse the chance to go to the circus and help put a stop to the disgusting treatment of these poor elephants and possibly even more animals that are abused every day just to perform tricks you could teach your dog.

I would tell anyone planning to attend a circus all the facts of cruelty that occur for a human's entertainment. I would tell them that animals should not be used for our entertainment and it is up to us to stop the abuse by not going to any circuses. I would tell them to think of the innocent lives and how they are forced to do tricks and are beaten and taken away from their natural environments at such a young age. I would not only tell them to not go to the circus but I would tell them to join me in helping end all use of animals in circuses, for it is up to us humans to end abuse towards animals and to respect all types of life.

"are u serious? do u no how horrible they are to the animals? it is so not fair to the animals to be tortured the way they are just for your entertainment."

We need to be Kind to others and always treat others like we want to be treated and that includes Animals and every living thing. We all belong to GOD and he says: Thou shalt NOT kill and all the other commandments in the Bible!
Thanks, CECE

I would say you know tha the treat thier elephants bad an d if you go you are basically supporting animal crualey. You are enjoying animals being hurt.

No I will not go to the circus. Those poor animals are beaten senseless daily and sometimes RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! people think its just part of the show. Do you realize how many elephants and tigers die every year due to the abuse of a circus???? I dout that you do. but seriously think about it. when you buy a ticket too a show you are supporting the cruelty of the animals in danger. If you go you will lose a friend. enough said!

I'll give you something to laugh about >=(

"it makes me so sick to see what they are doing to these elephants!!!!! how would they feel if i whipped and beat them for entrainment?!? it makes me wanna cry watching stuff like that. elephants are my FAVORITE animal. it makes my stomach turn seeing animals being hurt."

"I'm going to the circus how about you"

"No! I could never go to a circus. Don't you know what the circus handlers and trainers do to those animals. They abuse them. Animals aren't meant to do tricks, and in order to learn how to do the tricks they beat, whip, and electrically shock the animals. I can't watch the abuse being displayed before a crowd as if it is okay. I am surprised if you still go after I told you this."

Ahh i see you are going to the circus , so i guess it amuses you seeing animals being held against their wills , being forced to preform for what? a mere amount of food and being locked in cages all their lives. you should be ashamed of yourself

"You would go to the circus? Dude, do you know what they do there? They whip their elephants, and tigers, and just treat them like slaves! Would you like to go through that? And its all for show. Seriously? Please just give a thought against going to see it. I just don't see why you would pay good money to see poor animals that have been treated like crap perform. Just give a thought against it please. Thanks.

Can you imagine having a hook plunged into you skin. Can you imagine being whipped across you face or your back or your arms. Can you imagine being repeatedly hit until they are sure it hurts. Can you inagine being forced to perform. Can you imagine being tortured. No. Because you dont think about those things. Do you? you just see the finished product...Look deeper...you'll see.

those animals are meant to be in the wild and free exspacially bears that really pisses me off! circuses are for freaks and there is enough humans that are freaks start given out applications duh!

If I had this shirt I would make Peta Stream Proud because I love in sarasota, fl and would wear it every day and tell eveybody I pass what the circus they our taking their kids too is not what it is and I would then inform them how they treat their animals!!!!!!!!!!! I think it is ashame and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW!!! I BELIVE I COULD HELP I WOULD ALSO WEAR THE THE RINGLING MUSUEM!!!!

I love elephants! Fuck the circus! If i wanted to see some guys in make up and wigs id go to a gay bar!

why go to the circus to see animals do tricks when you can go to school and see them in there natural habitat

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