Comments on: Students protest, families have fun at Finch Fieldhouse circus http://www.cm-life.com/2009/03/02/studentsprotestfamilieshavefunatfinchfieldhousecircus/ Your 24-hour news source for Central Michigan University Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Janet Weeks http://www.cm-life.com/2009/03/02/studentsprotestfamilieshavefunatfinchfieldhousecircus/comment-page-1/#comment-14618 Janet Weeks Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:01:58 +0000 http://www.cm-life.com/2009/03/02/studentsprotestfamilieshavefunatfinchfieldhousecircus/#comment-14618 Please do not take kids to the circus--teach them kindness and compassion instead. Circus animals learn their tricks through standard industry practices of using bullhooks and other instruments to poke, prod, strike, shock, and beat the animals to "train" them--all for an hour of human "entertainment." In reality, the tricks the animals are forced to perform are frightening, unnatural, and even painful. Between shows, animals are confined in cramped quarters, deprived of social interaction, and are forced to stand or lie for hours on end in their own excrement. Circus animals typically spend 11 months out of a year in transit to the next show and the next. This is no way for any animal to exist, whether wild or domestic. Please boycott all animal circuses. Rent Walt Disney's "Dumbo" instead and let children see the circus for what it really is: The Saddest Show on Earth. Thank you. Haiku for Circus Animals: But they beat them, Dad. (Pink elephant in the room.) Eat your popcorn, son! Please do not take kids to the circus–teach them kindness and compassion instead. Circus animals learn their tricks through standard industry practices of using bullhooks and other instruments to poke, prod, strike, shock, and beat the animals to “train” them–all for an hour of human “entertainment.” In reality, the tricks the animals are forced to perform are frightening, unnatural, and even painful. Between shows, animals are confined in cramped quarters, deprived of social interaction, and are forced to stand or lie for hours on end in their own excrement. Circus animals typically spend 11 months out of a year in transit to the next show and the next. This is no way for any animal to exist, whether wild or domestic. Please boycott all animal circuses. Rent Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” instead and let children see the circus for what it really is: The Saddest Show on Earth. Thank you.

Haiku for Circus Animals:

But they beat them, Dad.
(Pink elephant in the room.)
Eat your popcorn, son!

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