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i went to a circus and had fun. i saw signs out front afterwards that said that the circus beats the elephants and i was curious how they knew? so i asked a lady and she told me what they do and my mom comes over and 5 seconds later i was about to cry so i walk away and start crying(elephants just happen to be my favorite animal besides the koala bear) and my mom was like, what did they tell you? and i told her what they told me. You wanna know what they told me? She told me that the animals are beaten to death and that the whips and spokes and stuff like that, they use to scare them to get them to do a trick. The lady sees me crying and she asks if im okay and guess what happends next?
My mom goes over there and hands the paper that explains everything back to the lady and the lady says, "Whats your problem?" and my mom says that "My daughter is 14 years old and your telling her that..." and the lady just keeps interrupting and then my mom says, "Whatever." Looks down at the ladys feet and notice that she has leather on which comes from an animal and these ppl are against the killing of animals, so my mom says, "By the way, nice shoes." and walks away. In the 80's a circus was banded because they treated the animals so pourly. No circus can treat animals that way. My mom went on line and found out that theres a habitat for the animals where they can live so they dont die and the animals are fine. everythings okay.

Those ppl were with PETA. PETA has done some cruel things in the ast. There was an inccident about three years ago i think that PETA splashed animal blood onto ppl who wore fure coats. ANIMAL BLOOD!!! There was also an inccident where the ppl of PETA killed some animals and took pictures of them saying that this is what the circus did and does. There are too many positives up against a giant animal being beaten'. Circuses might have animals in there performances, but they dont beat them to get what they want them to do, and if they did, chances are, that that animal would run away because its had enough torture. Fight or Flight is what animals do. Circuese take them in and take care of the animals they dont hurt them.