Circus No Place for an Animal

Would you choose your fun or their misery? Before you go to the circus, please consider the animals, which have been taken from their natural environment, kept in confinement and forced to do tricks they don’t understand, just for your frivolous entertainment.

Elephants and tigers love to run, play and interact with their own species, scratch themselves on trees, sniff around, forage for food, wallow in mud, swim and play in streams and ponds. They cannot do any of these natural, fun things when subjected to life in a circus.

We have all kinds of entertainment today. Do we really need a form of entertainment at the price of some other being’s misery? Is this any way for a civilized society to treat these magnificent creatures? There are some very fine circuses that do not have animal acts. All their performers have the choice of performing.

LUCY SHELTON

Azusa