Behind the Stages of Circuses and Aquatic shows.

We Don’t Need Any Stinkin’ Animal shows.

Marilyn Regan

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Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Enjoy watching animals perform at the circus?

They don’t.

Thanks to the The Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA), the biggest and saddest, or sadist, show on earth, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is now out of the mix after 146 years. But there are still circuses with animal acts.

Garden Brothers Circus; UniverSoul Circus; Carson & Barnes Circus; Carden International Circus, Inc.; Shrine Circuses; and Jordan World Circus are among the six worst.

For the grisly details, read the press release on the undercover investigation by The Humane Society of the United States.

Rest assured, if you’re watching a wild animal perform for money, you are watching it suffer and you’re witnessing the accumulation of years of abuse. And there will be many more years to come.

Consider that these animals were forced from their homes, hunted and imprisoned in cages. This is when the “training” begins.

A trained wild animal is just another word for an animal that’s had its spirit broken and been beaten into submission. In order for it to remain submissive, it is beaten on a regular basis.

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Marilyn Regan

Marilyn is a writer, yogi, and spiritual medium. Her favorite people are animals, especially ones that meow. She loves the ocean and hates one-use plastic.