Circuses :

Animals are not actors yet thousands of elephants, lions, apes, bears, and other animals are forces to perform silly and sometimes difficult tasks under threat of physical punishment. many of these animals travel cross country in chained cages separated from their families. Most of these animals are forced to preform until the end of their life. To force them to learn physical demanding tricks trainers use billhooks, whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, and other harmful tools.

Elephants can be chained for up to 23 hours a day in the circus. In the wild, elephants will walk up to 30 miles a day but while in the circus elephants won’t likely walk for their entire lives. In order to get big cats to perform on command, trainers deprive animals of food and water to establish their dominance. Being deprived of their natural environments and behaviors animals start too mentally shut down to cope with the overwhelming stress.

Aquariums :

Sea World is responsible for the deaths of thousands of dolphins and whales they claim are used for public education. Sea world and marine parks are sharing the wrong message to the world. The lesson it shows is we think its expectable to imprison animals, deprive them of freedom of movement, ruin their chances to establish natural territory and explore, group together, and watch them go insane from stress and frustration.

Wild orcas and other dolphins live in large social groups and swim vast distances every day in the open ocean. In captivity, they can only swim in endless circles inside tanks to preform meaningless tricks for food. Countless marine animals are taken from their rightful ocean homes and placed in isolation. Wild orcas can live to be more than 100 years old, but orcas at SeaWorld or in captivity often die by the time they reach their teens and rarely ever approach the average life expectancy of wild orcas. 

–How you can help-

• Each of us can help prevent suffering and deaths by refusing to buy tickets to watch broken animals preform in captivity.
• Encourage your local aquarium to create more space for rehabilitating and releasing injured wildlife.

“There is only one acceptable thing to do with animals exploited for entertainment and that is to return them to their natural habitat and loving home”