Circus souls...

'Weirded out' is the words that i'm going to start with for this post...

I always loved going to the circus, it always smelt funny, but it was still cool to see. My favourite part was seeing the animals, but never once did i think, are animals even supposed to do that?

Then all of a sudden i started seeing out crys on web pages about how wrong the circus is...i'm very critical and i 'm not the type of a person to read something and convert, i look into it with a fine tooth comb, cause u never know what freeflows (people that think the whole world is a evil conspiricy) came up with this thought .

Ok so lets start with the basic thought...

Is it cruel to make animals do tricks?

Unfortunatley, i'm going to have to say yes....yes i do believe training a dog to play dead isn't how they were supposed to live...animals after all just want to live a natural loving life. I always ask myself one easy question, it's easy for me as i don't feel that animals are below me, i find them as important as i do humans, they to feel pain and bleed. Right so here is my easy question...

"WOULD I LIKE IT IF..."

Simple as that. Ok so lets try and explain...

'WOULD I LIKE IT IF...someone made me do tasks i find hard to do.'.......i don't really like to be made to do anything, so i would have to say NO.
'WOULD I LIKE IT IF...someone hit me because i couldn't do the task'......NO i'd totally lose my temper.
'WOULD I LIKE IT IF...i was constantley surrounded by people i'm scared of?' NO i'd be freaked out all day.

The reality is this all happens all day long at circuses. All-day-long. Not only are they kept in dirty cages and tied down but they are also hit and forced in any way nessesary to do a simple trick that we all blindly clap to.

I had a look at the chinese animal olympics in Shanghia in 2006...it's scary that these animals are doing this stuff and how they teach them to do it is what upsets me most.

Look at every circus that happens in your town...it's all fun and games for us but for the animals there, life is hell, there scars are enough to prove it.

I now feel so uninformed, so stupid that every time i watched the animals do tricks when i was young i thought that being in the circus was a lovable and fun place to be...i forgot that this is a job for some people and animals shouldn't have a 6-7pm job.

If you don't believe me here check it out:
There's a video on this page: http://www.circuses.com/
On this page are pic's of the animal olympics ( please note that all the animals are tied up, is that fair? ) :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-407693/Un-bear-able-Chinas-cruel-animal-Olympics-reach-new-heights.html

I found out this cool thing i can do...

I can take a picture with a simple page and send it to PETA and it'll go towards the protest of animal abuse in circuses, especially elephants...they have a LONG memory....imagine your memorys being filled with pain...YUCK i'd hate that.

Ok so i'm going home to take the pic and i'll add it here to show you guys that it's simple to do the right thing. Very simple :)

Any who gotta dash, i'm off to go pick up my book.. A kind diet by Alicia Silverstone. It's taken 11 days to get here....eek i'm so excited, it better be good, but i'll update you all.

Kind Outty's

Kelly-Leigh