Animals in circuses are ill-treated

Circuses do not treat animals well. Animals are forced to travel for hours in small cages where they have hardly any space to move. There are trained cruelly. Trainers make animals perform only through pain and beating. They also starve the animals and do not give them enough water.

All the natural habits of animals are denied to them in circuses. In circusses animals cannot move. The animals are caged in such small cages that they can hardly turn around in, and are chained for most of the day and night. They only exercise they get is during performences and training sesions.

In circuses animals are forced to do un-natural acts. Elephants are forced to stand on their head, chimpanzees have to ride bycicles, bears have to dance, tigers have to jump true flaming loops, elephant are forced to walk tail to trunk and female elephants have to mount each other. To make animals do this it will need extreme training, and that can mean lots of torture. Once the show is over animals are cruelly shoved back into cages or are chained. Then they are packed into trucks, and are taken to the next town.

It is discovered that trainers beat and starve the animals to make them perform tricks. Trainers keep the animals under control with electric prods and whips. A bear may have its nose broken or its paws burned to force it to stand on its hind legs. All this cruelty makes  animals mad. 

Here are some amazing facts of animal cruelty in circuses

Animals are confined in small cages barely larger then their own bodies.

It is rare animals receive proper veterinery care. Not one of India’s circuses has a vet traveling with it.

Often circuses give animals less water so that they don’t urinate when they are performing.

Diseases in circuses

Animals in circuses can have many dangerous diseases. Elephants often have tuberculosis. Often they are not treated. Often wounds are inflicted during beatings. Often circuses use soil to camuflage elephants’ wounds. And often the soil is full of germs, which means it can infect the wound.

In circuses animals also suffer from lameness and foood abscesses. It is common for an elephant to die in a circus. Elephant suffer from osteoporosis. This desease is caused due to the lack of excersise and no space to move around in.