Animal abuse and the circus...

This story is about, not to forget, not to relax, and not to let Tyke’s death be in vain.

This story is for all abused elephants in the word, because it’s not just the circus that treads their animals like shit. Many mahouts do to and they should love and cherish their elephants!

So, before you ever visit a circus again and applaud, read this, and know…what it is… you applaud for!!!!!

What should I call it, terrible seems so cliché. Horror doesn’t even cut it. No, what I am about to write is the stuff of nightmares, for circus animals anyway. Today I wanted to start a blog about the Ebola-virus, because it’s a terrible disease and it needs more addressing. However, after seeing yet another article about the abuse of circus animals, 

I changed my mind. I will write my blog about the Ebola-virus, but after I’m finished with this one.

First, let me tell you that I don’t believe that there is a circus in the world that really loves its animals. From what my research told me so far, all circuses are treating their animals poorly. What am I saying; they abuse their animals in the worst kind of way! See the footage for yourself and then you decide how great the circus really is!

Source PETA.  http://www.peta.org/videos/circus-cruelty-carson-barnes/

PETA and others like http://www.elephantvoices.org/  have a lot of (undercover) stories that will give you nightmares, just looking at it. Imagine how those elephants must feel!

This is only one very disturbing and sad example of the circus treads their animals and elephants in particular.

The next time you see, or read about another circus elephant that snaps, loses it, you have to ask yourself, why? 

Elephants are highly social animals, they care for their families deeply. Elephant herds live by hierarchy and they mourn the loss of one of their own, just like we humans do.

Did you know:

That the skin of an elephant is very sensitive?

That you can easily hurt an elephant through their sensitive skin?

That they understand more than we give them credit for?

That elephants cry, like we do? Are scared and having nightmares, like do?

That they miss and mourn for their baby after the calf is taken away from them after his or her birth?

That many times during giving birth, the becoming mother is abused?

That circuses use electroshock's (they stick in the behind of the elephant) to make her submit?

I thought long and hard about, the why! Why do people feel good after beating an elephant bruised and bloody? Why make this huge gently giant that has no rights, to lie down and let herself get beaten over and over? After thinking long and hard, I came to the conclusion that I believe that torturing and abusing these amazing animals make them feel like real men.

One thing, and I know that many of you agree with me that, beating an animal into submission doesn’t make you a real man. It makes you a coward and a monster. Because brave men don’t need to abuse an animal to feel like a man, they are real men.

Being a real man means:

That you help the ones who weaker than you!

That you don’t torture innocent defenseless animals!

That you help the elderly!

I can go on and on, but you know what I mean. I hope and pray that many of you who read this are going to help in protesting against animal abuse in general. That you will sign every petition available against animal-cruelty. That you will spread the word to, as many other people as possible, to take action against animal-cruelty. Call it in when you see someone abuse an animal.

Most important, that you don’t participate in animal abuse. 

That means** stay as far away from the circus as you can** Let people in your neighborhood know how the circus really is treating their animals.

To abuse any animals should be considered a crime against humanity. Unfortunately, animals still don’t count as much as they should be! I find that very odd and I don’t understand why there still are so few laws to protect animals from monsters that call themselves human.

I’m still working on my free-read about elephants; I change the story time and again. I’m not certain how to exactly write it.

Thank you for reading my blog and in helping, giving animals a voice they themselves don’t have!