Jared Melo

Several centuries ago, the entertainment has been a way for people to enjoy. The first biggest place to see entertainment was the coliseum in Rome (Italy). From 18th century circuses appear for the first time in England. Those people used the circuses as a way of entertainment with their families; some people tried to promote this kind of entertainment like circuses around the world. Used different ways to get money, show something or teach some topics. In this century the circuses use animals for people to enjoy with their moves in the training, but the use of animals in circuses were a big problem because the animals suffer a lot of in circus for the treatment that they receive like: bad food, uncomfortable transportation, bad medicine.

Through the history there have been a number of people that attend circuses and think animals in circuses are not bad; people support animals in circuses because they are entertainment for their families. Also, people can interact with animals, touching, seeing, and taking pictures with them. Circuses are good way to try new experiences with animals that only perform natural behaviors, and are kept to the best possible welfare standards. on the other hand, a number of people think this situation is bad, including us because this kind of animals are ridicule, the people that work in circuses dress stupid clothes in their bodies like hats, miniskirts and red noses and look like clown., some kind of animals that live in circuses cannot do it.

In circuses, bears, elephants, tigers, and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They do not perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to; they perform them because they are afraid of what will happen if they do not do it. For animals in circuses, to force them to perform these meaningless and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, hooks, and other painful tools of the trade. In the Ringling Bros. circus, elephants are beaten, hit, poked, prodded, and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until the animals bleed, or die while the process to separate to this mother; however, They retain their natural instincts to socialize and to move freely.

Circuses easily get away with routine abuse because no government agency monitors training sessions; for instance, they show a good behavior, but when the show ends they hit the animal to move the animal that is scared because the tricks that the circus people use is very dangerous, and hurt the animal. About 1-9% of the day performing/training and the remaining time in exercise machines. Other times they get to be outside of their cages are to rehearse or perform. Animal trainers often use very brutal training methods to establish and maintain the control necessary to make the circus animals perform their tricks.

According to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the majority of circuses travel a 11 times around the world each year. also , elephants are chained for more than 26 hours straight and are sometimes continually chained for as many as 60 to 100 hours , but lions and tigers stay in cages around 50 hours without food , water and bathroom. is very common that animals die while the tour was started , and the number of cases the circus lost the majority of animals because they do not care about animals; moreover, the method to cage the animals is very nasty because the people push the animals and break their bones and kill in different aspects: very fast, or very slowly and the animals suffer for a lot time and the weather of places Is very hot, or very cold. moreover, Constant travel means that animals are confined to boxcars, trailers, or trucks for days at a time in extreme hot and cold weather, often without control about nutrition of animals.

I really believe that circuses with animals are bad because the people to manage this kind of places only think in their selfish intentions and do business with the animals that they have. Also, they spend a lot of time in their office that review the train that the animals have, so what can people do?

The best possible solution is that circuses use only people. With Animals the treatment is very hard for the animals and the people do not how to take care of wild animals. Moreover, these kinds of animals become aggressive with time and attack people. The circuses without animals are good, for instance the SOLEI circus use a lot people and entertain people with a show WITHOUT animals, so is a good solution: circus only with humans.