What are the PROS of having circus animals? ?
Circus (and zoo) animals teach people about what animals are capable of. You learn that they are intelligent and have individual personalities. These animals are given shelter, food and veterinary care for their service. I take exception to the idea that all these animals are abused. That is a word that is used too freely by animal rights activists whose ultimate goal is to end the relationship between humans and animals. They have started by picking on circuses which are an easy target because there are only a few of them and most people know little about how they operate. If they succeed in removing animal acts from circuses, they will continue to pick off larger targets like rodeos, carriage horses, racing, breeders, etc that they’ve already made inroads against. Their goal is to over regulate and make animal ownership so politically incorrect, expensive and difficult, that people will just quit owning any animal – dogs included. Do you want to live in a world where someone else can
