Animals Used For Entertainment

Animals don't want to ride motorcycles, wear costumes, walk tightropes, or jump through rings of fire. Sadly, they are forced to perform these difficult and often confusing feats because they fear an even worse alternative. Trainers use abusive weapons, like whips, axe handles, metal pipes, bullhooks, and electric prods to make animals perform demeaning tricks, and the animals know they will be viciously beaten if they are not done properly.

While not performing, the lives of animals used in entertainment often consist of little more than lonliness and deprivation. Day after day, month after month, many animals languish in artifical environments with no opportunity to participate in their natural behaviors. Often, they develop abnormal behavioral patterns as ways of trying to cope from their captivity induced "lack of purpose."

Animals enslaved in circuses, tortured in rodeos, and impriosoned in zoos and other entertainment venues are counting on you to speak out for them!