Natalie
S.
Australia
( qld)
This is horrible. I didn't even think of the animals and how they are treated until I went to the circus last week. I got handed a flyer from 2 ladies before entering and made the experience terrible. I didn't enjoy it at all. I think there needs to be more out there to help people realise what they are supporting when they go to the circus. It is horrible that the animals' whole life is traveling around to entertain people for 10 mins per show. Made me feel sick.
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Keira
E.
Australia
( Queensland)
To use animals for entertainment is blatant speciesism. No animal should be tortured just for the chuckles of a few humans.
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Nana
T.
Australia
( QLD)
There is nothing entertaining about seeing a beautiful wild animal being used in a circus and unable to lead a natural life. The sooner we make it illegal the better!
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Nelly
L.
Australia
( QLD)
Say NO to Animals in Circuses!
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Rebecca
R.
Australia
( Queensland)
Go see Cirque du Soleil and Circus Oz - leave the animals out of the big top!
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dian
j.
Australia
( nsw)
Should never be considered, let alone done. It is shameful.
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jess
g.
Australia
( nsw)
It is just so sad when I see animals being forced into cages or being forced to perform and I just get so angry about it! It needs to be stopped now!
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Amanda
D.
Australia
( QLD)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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eunice
y.
Australia
( NSW)
animal cruelty is just wrong!
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Cassandra
C.
Australia
( NSW)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Vivienne
B.
Australia
( Queensland)
Circuses are so cruel they should be banned
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Virginia
M.
Australia
( NSW)
Using and abusing animals for profit and entertainment is not acceptable when we know so much about how animals suffer. Ban animals in circuses now!
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Dearne
H.
Australia
( nsw)
Stop using animals in circuses. They have no voice so we are speaking for them. They're saying: I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE.
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Lee-Darnell
T.
Australia
( QLD)
Unnecessary cruelty to animals
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Verity
H.
Australia
( Victoria)
It upsets me so much to know that animals are STILL being used in circuses and are STILL suffering. Please ban the use of animals in circuses - this is NOT entertainment but cruelty.
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Shane
M.
Australia
( South Australia)
Totally barbaric, primitive and uncivilised to treat any animal in this way.
Cruelty is NOT entertainment.
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C
J.
Australia
( NSW)
Animals our not ours to exploit in such a horrible way.
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Pamela
H.
Australia
( Qld)
The slave masters should be forced to live in cages and travel in all kinds of weather without air conditioning and see just what it's like for those they exploit.
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Randa
M.
Australia
( NSw)
For goodness sake? Can't you understand just how cruel this is??
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Marilyn
O.
Australia
( Qld)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Billie
P.
Australia
( NSW)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Dominique
T.
Australia
( Qld)
The ACT banned exotic animals in circuses in 1992. Is Qld ready to follow, 20 years later?
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kathyy
m.
Australia
( A.C.T)
The way circuses treat their animals is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in my life! SAVE THE CIRCUS ANIMALS AND SAY NO!
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alison
s.
Australia
( Qld)
Most educated countries support this ban. Come on Austalia, stand up and be counted!
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Alanna
C.
Australia
( NSW)
Cruel and not needed!
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april
h.
Australia
( sa)
Please free our beautiful animals. They deserve to be free just like us. They have as much right to live their lives as they wish, happy and free, not made to perform. This is so cruel and degrading to them.
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Essi
S.
Australia
( Queensland)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Belinda
G.
Australia
( nsw)
People are evolving to be smarter and better than this. Please do not allow such horrific pain to occur, when we have the knowledge and power to not let it happen!
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Carol
S.
Australia
( Queensland)
Keeping animals in circuses is just plain cruelty, abuse with a capital A. It is a disgrace that there are still animals being maltreated in this way, and there is no justification for this. We are supposed to be "civilised"??
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Shonleigh
R.
Australia
( QLD)
I think this is disgusting.
I just watched the elephant video with the electric prods and it has literally made me sick.
You guys are doing an amazing job, keep at it.
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Sue
W.
Australia
( Qld)
My family and I are passionate advocates of banning animals from being used in circuses. NEVER attend a circus that includes animals!!
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Jayne
F.
Australia
( Queensland)
Say NO to Animals in Circuses
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beki
c.
Australia
( victoria)
BAN CIRCUSES
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Michael
P.
Australia
( QLD)
Just plain cruel and stupid
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Debra
M.
Australia
( QLD)
Too cruel for words! JUST STOP!
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Micha
J.
Australia
( nsw)
Many people are unaware of what life is really like for these animals. The entertainment value is not worth the possible cruelty and quality-of-life restrictions that they may endure.
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Lianne
B.
Australia
( NSW)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Jasmin
W.
Australia
( Victoria)
Animals being used in Circuses is well outdated. The way the animals are treated is inhumane and totally unacceptable. Say NO to Animals in Circuses. Imagine if you should be living in the wild, free to roam where you want, free to eat what you want, free to be happy. Yet you were chained up or shut in a cage, only to be let out for training and preforming, which of course includes brutal beatings. How else do you think an Elephant learns to do tricks? Just think about it. Say NO to Animals in Circuses!!
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Sarah
P.
Australia
( vic)
The only circus freaks around here I see are the people who run them. When are you idiots going to get the message? Leave the animals well alone for once in your stinking lives.
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Merle
B.
Australia
( QLD)
It is taking away the dignity and rights of the animals. I am sure they would not choose to live the life they are subjected to in a circus.
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Michelle
H.
Australia
( NSW)
Disgusting practice
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Axelle
S.
Australia
( Qld)
A few minutes of entertainment = a lifetime of cruelty. Ban circuses with animals.
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Kirsten
M.
Australia
( 2114)
Animals are not meant for entertainment or to make money from. Less focus on ETS more focus on what we have to lose, if we damage these wonderful creatures and companions!
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Rhiannon
B.
Australia
( Queensland)
Things need to change and we need to do something about it NOW!
Link this site on Facebook/Twitter and urge all your friends to join.
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Trent
C.
Australia
( NSW)
Animals are not here for our entertainment, even if they were, nothing can justify the inhumane means circuses go about it to achieve such 'goals'.
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Jordan
C.
Australia
( Victoria)
The time has come when the exploitation of animals for the entertainment of humans comes to end. Today we have the chance to say enough is enough. And stand up to these despicable practices and shut them down.
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Michelle
M.
Australia
( Victoria)
Ashamed to be part of the human race.
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M
S.
Australia
( Queensland)
I am disgusted that we live in a world that still supports the cruel treatment of animals!
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Nardina
B.
Australia
( Queensland)
I think the way circus animals are treated is cruel and I fully support a ban on allowing them to be used in circuses and I stopped attending circuses some years ago in protest.
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Natalie
B.
Australia
( VIC)
I can't believe this is still happening in Australia. I thought we were a forward thinking country. These poor animals! How can this still be allowed to happen?
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Naomi
B.
Australia
( Qld)
This is not life. This is not entertainment. Why do we have to exploit nature?
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georgia
w.
Australia
( vic)
Animal cruelty is so wrong!
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Karen
M.
Australia
( QLD)
They should be free to live the life that nature intended, their natural life - not trapped, trained, tortured and tired - all for our amusement.
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Lorna
C.
Australia
( QLD)
Keep the circus - without the animals.
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Vicki
S.
Australia
( Qld)
I do not support and would never go to an animal circus. We understand the need to have zoos but find the circus a terrible negligent way to treat animals. I SAY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
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Josie
M.
Australia
( qld)
It's disgusting.
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Kate
L.
Australia
( Queensland)
It is a coward who takes advantage of a person or animal that does not have the ability to stand up for themselves. All creatures deserve to be treated humanely, they are not here for our entertainment, but for our appreciation as amazing creatures.
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Luke
B.
Australia
( Queensland)
Westfield Shopping Centre at North Lakes, north of Brisbane, supports animal cruelty by allowing Lennon Bros Circus to use their land. It makes me sick, I feel so sorry for those animals, I'm ashamed to be a human being.
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kelsey
w.
Australia
( vic)
Animals aren't born in a circus!
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Meighan
W.
Australia
( QLD)
I am saddened and disgusted that, in this day and age, there are still so many cruel and ignorant people who find this sort of degradation and abuse 'entertaining'.
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Naomi
B.
Australia
( QLD)
Say NO! to animal circuses!!
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Samatha
S.
Australia
( Victoria)
People who abuse animals are so cruel.They should be abused to see how it feels.Abusing animals is like abusing your very own pet.I hope after you read this,you change what you think about abuse.
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Denise
K.
Australia
( Queensland)
I can't believe that this is still happening. A circus is no place for animals.
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Suzanne
H.
Australia
( victoria)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Christie
M.
Australia
( Victoria)
How do we teach children that violence and demeaning behaviour is unacceptable, when we take them to these shows?
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kim
c.
Australia
( Australia)
There is no excuse for cruelty.....ever
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Tayla
S.
Australia
( Victoria)
I am using this topic as a speech for my school so i to can make others aware of this issue. I love all animals and want to help them. Ban the use of animals in circuses.
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kim
c.
Australia
( vic)
We should be far more evolved than this in this day and age.
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anne-mari
c.
Australia
( sa)
THIS APPALLING PRACTICE MUST BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. WHAT IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL IN A CIRCUS, WOULD YOU LIKE IT?
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Ruby
F.
Australia
( Victoria)
It is cruel and mean and I don't like it
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hayley
w.
Australia
( victoria)
Stop animal cruelty
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catalina
t.
Australia
( victoria)
I am ashamed that my country is allowing this sick treatment of animals.
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K
A.
Australia
( vic)
Can't even believe this is still happening.
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hayley
b.
Australia
( victoria)
I am disgusted with the fact that our country still allows performing animal acts to continue.
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Martina
M.
Australia
( QLD)
I doubt the people that run these circuses would allow their children to be caged for the duration of their life, or force them to "perform" for profit. Why should these animals have any less rights?
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Zoe
B.
Australia
( NSW)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Alexandria
H.
Australia
( Qld)
I had thought (and been proud) that animal circuses are banned in what i thought was australia until i saw an animal circus in maroochydore, animals in australian zoos are given environments like their natural habitats. animals in circuses are given small cages, the stress of the road, and live to perform tricks. so disgusting that such a civilized country would be so 1950's
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Justine
M.
Australia
( Vic)
My son has repeatedly requested to see a circus but I refuse to support animals being used to entertain.If children are educated to respect and admire animals exhibiting their natural behavior ideally there will come a time when animals are no longer used and forced to PERFORM.
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Isobel
B.
Australia
( Victoria)
Because it's not simply entertaining to see an animal being tortured.
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Rhia
H.
Australia
( QLD)
The use of animals in circuses is barbaric and unethical. It must stop!
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Lauryn
H.
Australia
( vic)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Chelsea
E.
Australia
( Queensland)
Animals are not here to entertain us, especially in cruel, demanding ways. It is heartbreaking what our society is doing to them, and banning these circuses is one easy way of becoming cruelty-free.
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Laura
L.
Australia
( Queensland)
The fact is, animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. To force them to perform these confusing and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bullhooks, and other painful tools of the trade.
I love trapeze artists, jugglers, clowns, tightrope walkers, and acrobats, but let’s leave animals in peace. Sweden, Austria, Costa Rica, India, Finland, and Singapore have all banned or restricted the use of animals in entertainment—it’s time for Australia to do the same.
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Erin
A.
Australia
( QLD)
I think it's completely despicable that Animals are abused from a young age so a few people can get an hour's entertainment. Animals are NOT ours to use for entertainment. wake up society - www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com
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traci
c.
Australia
( qld)
I cannot believe that in this day and age this captive cruelty still goes on. IT IS DISGUSTING and people who attend such things need to take a serious look at themselves!
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Patricia
D.
Australia
( Victoria)
Grow up Australia, we're better than this.
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HELEN
S.
Australia
( victoria)
Please ban this practice. It is legalized animal abuse. What are we teaching our children by allowing this? Cannot believe Stardust Circus is in Melbourne. Was horrified to see the ad on TV.
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Karen
N.
Australia
( Victoria)
Their life is awful, living in a cage forever....
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Carol
S.
Australia
( Qld)
This is cruel and unnecessary. I am saddened by human beings who commit these crimes and just as disappointed by the people that go to animal circuses.
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sursh
p.
Australia
( nsw)
There is no need for this fabricated lie to go on any longer. Just like the myth that eating your crusts makes your hair curly, so too, is the idea that animals in the circus lead a happy and entertaining life - what codswallop! The animal circus industry sickens me to say the least. Why must people inflict pain and misery on the innocent? Because they are too weak and gutless. They are nothing more than bullies. It's time to close the curtain and praise human circuses: they are an absolute real circus full of spectacular beauty and admiration.
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yvette
w.
Australia
( nsw)
Disgusted, enraged, physically sick and pain: these are just few of the feelings I feel when any animal is abused in any form for human ego. People are just one species on this planet and we have no justification to control or manipulate any other animal species - this is not 'OUR' planet it is 'THEIRS'. Respect it and don't subject animals to your own issues: they are not an outlet of hate, greed, frustration, lust or any other dissatisfied feeling you feel.
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Megan
M.
Australia
( Qld)
Would you let your vet hurt your family pet just because they say your dog may perform better? I think not!
Animals don't have a
voice so speak up now and become a
voice for them!
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Justin
M.
Australia
( Victoria)
Unnecessary exploitation.
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laura
n.
Australia
( vic)
This act is cruel and inhumane, animals deserve just as many rights as humans.
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karina
v.
Australia
( NSW)
Its horrible. I'd like to find more ways that I can help!
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jacky
d.
Australia
( vic)
Stop animal circuses!
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Vivien
E.
Australia
( NSW)
Stop animals in circuses!
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Kim
F.
Australia
( VIC)
Animals are not here for our amusement. Educate people, respect animals, create a better world!
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Miriam
S.
Australia
( Queensland)
If we are to live in enlightened times, animals must be banned from circuses.
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Matthew
V.
Australia
( WA)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Kelly
B.
England
( Essex)
Utterly,pathetic. Why should they be used to do unnatural things they were not made to do? Stop & ban animal circuses before they invent an even more harmful weapon than the bullhook to use to beat the animals when they refuse to jump through a burning hoop of fire or walk across a tightrope etc. Truly,pathetic and an act from the devil, truly horrible,shows what society is like today. SO SO CRUEL HATE THE ANIMAL CIRCUSES GET THEM BANNED FOREVER NOW!
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Karl
R.
United Kingdom
( Cornwall)
It is barbaric, cruel, and medieval.
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Jacquie
B.
Canada
( NS)
There is no excuse for treating animals this way - they are not slaves or objects for our entertainment!
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Jessica
N.
United Kingdom
( Cornwall)
How Would You Like To Be Cramped, Filthy, Starved, Tortured, And Made To Do Uncomfortable Things?? You Wouldn't! So Why Force Animals Into This Cruelty? They Have No Choice. Why Should Their Life Be Ruled By Some Idiotic Person? Why Should He or She Be The Boss? The Animals Can't Fight Back. We Need To Put A Stop To This Can't You See? Do You Want To Be Torn Away From Your Family, To Face Pain And Suffering? Knowing You Will Probably Never Come Back? Or Not Knowing What's Going On And Where You're Going And What Will Happen To You ? No! These Circus People Disgust Me. How They Can Just Not Care About Some Helpless Animal?
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angela
f.
united States
( az)
We can choose but they cannot. Animals aren't ours to be used for entertainment.
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Connie
B.
Greece
( Athens)
I say NO to animals in circuses
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George
M.
Portugal
( Algarve)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Isabelle
R.
Belgium
( Brabant)
ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ANIMALS
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Tina
M.
United States
( CA)
The abuse of animals in circuses has got to stop now.
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Dana
C.
Romania
( Arad)
It's revolting that nowadays animals are still being treated this way,the people who are mistreating them should know better. It's a shame...
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Sime
I.
Romania
( Romania)
I believe that it is very cruel to use animals for entertainment purposes in circuses.
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pato
r.
romania
( cluj napoca)
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by how animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi
|
monika
v.
india
( chhattishgarh)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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priyanka
v.
india
( chhattishgarh)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Tabitha
C.
England
( Devon)
It makes me physically want to be sick. I am truly shocked at the people who want to inflict pain and suffering on an animal. We need to do something about it!
|
Divya
P.
United States
( California)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Erica
S.
Canada
( Ontario)
Watching animals perform in the circus is not entertainment of any sort, unless you're a sick human being. We need to stop the abuse, and help the future of circus animals.
|
Bianca
W.
Germana
( NRW)
End this cruelty!
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Bojana
B.
Serbia
( /)
Animals kept in a circuses should be illegal! Circus animals are condemned to live a life of abject misery. They spend their lives in confined spaces which they are unable to cope with, and so suffer greatly. Many animals are also subjected to violence at the hands of their trainers. Making animals perform is not entertainment, it's quite simply cruel exploitation. It's time for a worldwide ban on the use of wild and domestic animals in circuses!
|
Sandra-Isabella
N.
47055 Duisburg
( Germany)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Tom
M.
Germany
( Baden Würrtemberg)
Nowadays circuses have usually no money.
I'm not willing to accept them having animals in dirty cages with not enough to eat and wounds from bad threatening through circus"dompteurs"or other circus people,whose only reason to have animals in their circusis: Walk through the streets and ask the people for donations for the"Poor animals"!If they can't feed them,they shouldn't be allowed to have e them!Most of the circus animals are in a very bad manner and just used for getting any donations or a place to stay in wintertime.
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Elise
S.
US
( Texas)
Animals rely on us, as human beings to take care of them. They feel pain just like we do. Would you allow enslaving of children for entertainment? Probably not. Just because an animal doesn't have a voice doesn't mean it deserves less respect. Please open your eyes and see the pain and suffering that you are allowing. You have the power to end this. Look into the eyes of an animal. They are mirrors to their soul just like ours. Please help to stop this suffering.
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beth
c.
united states
( ca)
They belong in the wild! They are mistreated in circuses; they are not for our entertainment!
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Lucia
K.
Slovakia
( Slovakia)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Constance
R.
America
( Pennsylvania)
These beautiful creatures did not volunteer for an unnatural life. They deserve to live as God intended.
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alexandra
r.
germany
( NRW)
stop the torture of animals!
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Jan
B.
Germany
( NRW)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Stephanie
S.
Germany
( Hamburg)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Ana
Q.
Colombia
( Pasto, Nariño)
Stop the abuse! Animals are sentient beings, they're not here on this planet for us to exploit or abuse them! We must rather take care of them, protect them and love them.
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Célia
G.
France
( france)
I say no
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Sophie
J.
United States of America
( Pennsylvania)
Animals aren't treated well when they're in the circus, and I think that somebody should definitely do something about it.
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Mara
L.
United States of America
( Pennsylvania)
I really love animals and i don't think they deserve the treatment they get.
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T
S.
Canda
( Ontario)
I think it is embarrassing that we, as humans, in the 21st Century feel the need to use animals cruelly, all for the sake of entertainment.
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Nancy
G.
Los Angeles
( Califronia)
I think that it is wrong to treat animals this way.
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Julie
P.
United States
( Wisconsin)
It's just plain wrong.
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denise
b.
canada
( new brunswick)
enough is enough.....
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BOZZOLA
E.
France
( PACA)
How could we accept such cruelties for the pleasure of some too selfish and blind persons ?
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BIANCA
C.
USA
( CA)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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cherish
f.
United States of America
( illinois)
This is sick and anyone who gets involved in this should be put in jail. I'm very disgusted.
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Camille
M.
France
( none)
Animals are not toys, seeing them used as public distraction makes me sick and sad. They have the right to live for themselves, like any living being.
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Margaret
R.
USA
( NY)
It is extremely cruel and needs to be a thing of the past everywhere!
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amy
c.
united states
( fl)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Kerri
D.
United States
( Ohio)
I've never liked the circus, even as a child. I was upset seeing elephants chained. It is sad, and unfortunate that in the year of 2010, we as a people still allow this to exist.
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mariam
m.
us
( ca)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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sabrina
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
( IOWA)
When I hear about the abuse going on in the circuses, it makes me want to abuse the so called "trainers".
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Katie
A.
United States
( Minnesota)
I am doing a persuasive speech for school and have always felt strongly about the removal of animals from circuses. We are animals too!
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Jenna
A.
USA
( MA)
F*&K circuses! Ringling bros, Big Apple and etc treat their animals horribly and those bastards should rot in hell !
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Marie
N.
UK
( Herts)
Say NO to animals used in circuses
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Peggy
A.
USA
( Pa)
Animals do not belong in circuses.Their training is cruel and brutal.They only do acts out of fear of pain.
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Mary
A.
United States
( VA)
People should not be so greedy and selfish that they disregard the well-being of animals. Circuses are cruel, not fun or entertaining. They profit off pain and suffering, and it's wrong and inhumane.
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Leticia
F.
Paraguay
( Asuncion)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Annie
D.
United Kingdom
( Inverclyde)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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mary
f.
Republic of Ireland
( ireland)
please stop this torture
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Pam
J.
United States
( Indiana)
Animals were never meant to be 'entertainment'!
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heidi
w.
sweden
( vastra gotalands lan)
I find it abhorrent that animals are being used in circuses for entertainment.
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Esther
T.
United States
( North Carolina)
The time has long passed for animals in circuses. They can be viewed in much better detail by watching wildlife documentaries.
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Cassandra
R.
United States
( California)
So no to animals in circuses. They do not have a voice of their own so let ours speak for them.
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Jennifer
K.
United States
( MO)
Many people are unaware of the dire conditions that circus animals face. This petition is a great idea! Also, please join Citizens Concerned for Circus Animals on Facebook. Together we can make a difference in circus animals' lives!!
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Krystal
B.
USA
( Louisiana)
I am so against animals in the circus. It is not natural for them. They are miserable. I protested the last circus in my town and was almost arrested! It's so cruel. They need to be sent back to their natural habitat. Say no to circus cruelty!
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Alicia
H.
America
( Wisconsin)
This is sick and wrong. Animals need their dignity and freedom. They need someone to help them. I just can't believe that people would actually abuse these animals just for money. It makes me want to cry.
|
Ilaria
B.
Italy
( Italy)
No to animals in circuses.
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Stef
O.
USA
( NY)
Humans are the most terrible animals of all :(
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caris
c.
uk
( avon)
The use of animals in circuses is disgusting,cruel,not necessary and certainly not my idea of entertainment. It's time humans stopped exploiting animals for their personal gain! IT MUST STOP.
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Kelly
M.
United States
( Pa)
Hopefully, we will soon make this a reality and end animal suffering.
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Justin
D.
United States
( Oregon)
End the cruelty.
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Alejandrina
H.
USA
( CALIFORNIA)
It's a disgrace to mother nature, inhumane to the animals - and the people involved should be treated the same as these poor, defenseless animals.
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Kathryn
A.
USA
( FL)
I am wholeheartedly against animals in circuses. I have a son and he will not go to any circus.
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Shelley
W.
USA
( North Carolina)
I am 100% completely against ALL use of ANY animals, wild or tame, in circuses! My take on things is: what you've done to animals/people should be done to you and I support that 150%!
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Makarya
J.
United States
( CA)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Hailey
L.
US
( North Carolina)
This is wrong. Elephants and other animals are being beaten everyday, for our entertainment. For one, ANIMALS ARE NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN US HUMANS. They are beautiful creatures and it is horrific that they are being chained up and beaten daily so we can watch them stand up on their back legs. I want everyone to realize you're paying them to do this when you buy tickets to their shows. Tell your children what really goes on at the circus, tell your friends too. Let's get the message out there that this is wrong what is happening to these animals, and if no one will stand up and say it I will.
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CANDACE
B.
UNITED STATES
( OKLAHOMA)
The suffering of majestic and intelligent creatures must end. What will it take to make people realize the torture they support when they purchase even one circus ticket?
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faye
s.
United Kingdom
( Cambridgeshire)
I am absolutely disgusted with the way animals are treated in circuses, or in any way, fashion or form treated for human entertainment and for profit! It is highly unacceptable and it should be stopped. They should be out in the wild free to determine their OWN destiny.
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Emily
R.
United States
( CT)
INHUMANE AND CRUEL!
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Elizabeth
Q.
USA
( NY)
Animal acts are not entertaining; rather, they are archaic and cruel, and do nothing to further the public's education about wildlife. We have come past the point of seeing animals as pawns to do our bidding--let the three-ring circus die off.
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sandro
a.
europa
( italia)
nessuno deve sfruttare gli animale
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Barbara
M.
Canada
( Quebec)
Animals used in archaic travelling circuses should be a thing of the past. They should be placed into foster care with caretakers that know how to care and treat animals 'MEANT FOR THE WILD'!
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annie
d.
uk
( london)
Using animals for entertainment is horrific. Circuses that support the use of animals in their shows should be banned and their organisers taking to prison to see how they like a life behind bars!
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lucia
c.
usa
( illinos)
I have been fighting for along time to try and get animals out of the circuses.
I love animals and I hate to see them suffer. It hurts my heart.
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tami
l.
usa
( wi)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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Karen
Y.
United States
( California)
Animals have as much right to live in their natural environments and to behave in natural ways as we do. It is immoral to abuse animals for cheap profit- circuses with animals, along with other forms of abuse in the farming and fashion industries, should have no place in the world.
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Monica
P.
Germany
( NRW)
We have no right to treat animals other than we want to be treated ourselves! All living creatures feel pain and anxiety, just like we do. We're all connected...
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Kati
U.
Canada
( ON)
I thought this type of cruelty would have been left in the last century, but a decade into this one it's still happening all over the world.
Do not go to circuses that use animals!
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CLARE
A.
UNITED KINGDOM
( WEST SUSSEX)
A TOTAL DISGRACE IN THIS DAY AND AGE, IT MUST BE STOPPED!
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Pablo
R.
Mexico
( Colima)
The firs step is, don't bring your kids to the circus and explain to them why.
STOP ASSISTING THE CIRCUSES!
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Alesia
P.
United States of America
( Florida)
Animals in a circus are plain horrible! They do not deserve the treatment and abuse they get. They are not meant for human entertainment. These are beautiful beasts that deserve to live amongst their own in the wild. Circus PEOPLE are low life scums! They should be treated like that. I never fault a circus animal for killing its trainer. They should be killed for hurting and abusing these wonderful animals.
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Katie
B.
Britain
( London)
IT IS WRONG! Say NO to Animals in Circuses!
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Zoe
T.
United States
( Maine)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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cassidy
s.
USA
( California)
Animals are helpless, even the dangerous ones.
Seeing these videos makes me want to show those people what it feels like to be as helpless as the animals. Stop the madness.
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Cheryl
B.
Scotland
( UK)
I think it is disgusting that things like this still go on! These animals do not deserve to be treated badly: all animals should be treated well. It sickens me to think that this happens and absolutely breaks my heart!
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Marissa
K.
United States
( Illinois)
Would you liked to be whipped and mistreated? Would you like to be forced to do things you dislike?
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jill
s.
UK
( lothian)
Trained in unnatural behaviour, forced, imprisoned and exploited.
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pam
p.
UK
( west sussex)
Wild animals should be left to be just that - wild. It is wrong to subject them to the harsh & cruel training methods and restraint used to make them perform for your entertainment
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sara
h.
usa
( new york)
Let's torment the trainers how they torment the animals!
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joanne
s.
scotland
( west lothian)
Something must be done to save these poor animals from exploitation!
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Sandra
J.
Slovenia
( Slovenia)
Animals should not be used in Circuses and other shows to amuse us "humans" as they suffer in confined spaces, from cruelty, loneliness. Please, help me set them free!
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debby
c.
uk
( guernsey)
I find it so sad that animals in this day and age are still being made to suffer for human entertainment. I feel that the people who attend are just as sick. I hate the thought of these animals being hurt and not having a proper life that they rightfully deserve. We talk about protecting the environment. Well, let's also protect living creatures and make it STOP.
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maria
s.
California
( Vista)
Animals are innocent, we are supposed to NOT have a right to abuse them, 1.We are taking over their territory. 2. People are hunting/killing them. 3. People are using them in circuses, abusing them, beating them, that is NOT FAIR! What else can we do? Animals cannot speak for themselves. Why don't WE speak for them, and try to feel what they are feeling? This is NOT fun, we should ALL STOP GOING TO CIRCUSES.
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Stephanie
V.
USA
( GA)
These animals are worked to death. They are abused in just about every way you can think of. Set them free in a sanctuary. Let them lead normal lives.
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Sylvia
K.
United States
( IL)
The thought of animals in circuses makes me sick! Those poor creatures do not deserve to be treated this way. BAN ANIMAL CIRCUSES!
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Teela
D.
United States
( Texas)
Say No to Animals in Circuses
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