Animals used for entertainment

Bears, elephants, tigers, dogs and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They don't perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to see you smiling and laughing; they perform them because they're terrified of what will happen if they don't.

For animals in circuses there is no such thing as ‘’positive reinforcement’’, there are only cruel punishments. Trainers use whips, electric prods, muzzles, tight collars and other painful tools to force them to perform these meaningless tricks.

In the Ringling Bros. circus, elephants are beaten, , prodded, and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until they start bleeding . Ringling breaks their spirits when they're vulnerable babies who should still be with their moms .The next heartbreaking photos reveal how Ringling Bros. circus trainers cruelly force baby elephants to learn tricks, and it's not through a reward system, as they claim.

Constant Confinement

Because the circus is costantly traveling, means that animals are confined to boxcars, trailers, or trucks for days in an extremely hot and cold weather,almost always without access to basic necessities such as food, water, and veterinary care. Elephants, big cats, bears, and primates are confined to cramped and dirty cages in which they eat, drink, sleep, defecate, and urinate,and guess what?-all in the same place.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus boasts that its three units travel more than 25,000 miles as the circus tours the country for 11 months each year. Ringling's own documents reveal that on average, elephants are chained for more than 26 hours straight and are sometimes continually chained for as many as 60 to 100 hours. Tigers and lions usually live and travel in cages that provide barely enough room for the animals to turn around, often with two big cats crammed into a single cage. In July 2004, Clyde, a young lion that was traveling with Ringling, died in a poorly ventilated boxcar while the circus was crossing the Mojave Desert, where temperatures reached at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Clyde likely died a miserable death from heatstroke and dehydration. Previously, two tigers with Ringling injured themselves while attempting to escape from their cages in an overheated boxcar.

You save thousands of animals' lives by not going to ciruses that use animal acts,  now take a look of how it would be like if you were them.