Pennsylvania circus bill launched by Senator Leach
State bill to prohibit the use of wild and exotic animals in travelling acts introduced
Pennsylvania Senator Daylin Leach has introduced a state bill to prohibit the use of wild and exotic animals in traveling acts. ADI is working closely with Senator Leach’s office, providing research and evidence of how such shows cannot provide for the needs of the animals, nor protect citizens from the inherent risk.
Introducing the bill, Senator Leach stated: “Elephants are not the only circus animals that are suffering. To maximize profit, traveling exhibitions use grueling itineraries that force all of their animals to endure cramped living quarters, limited social interaction, and perpetual stress. Circuses hide this suffering from audiences, who witness only the power and grace of these magnificent animals. The secret is out. The public will not tolerate this unconscionable cruelty any longer.”
Pennsylvania Residents Take Action!
If you live in Pennsylvania, contact your state Senator and Representative today and ask them to please support Senator Leach’s efforts to end the abuse of wild animals when circuses come to the state.
Find your state Senator here / Find your state Representative here
You can mention that, due to severe confinement, lack of free exercise, and the restriction of natural behaviors, animals used in traveling circuses suffer and are prone to health, behavioral, and psychological problems, and therefore it is never humane.
Circuses with wild animals are not safe for animals or the public. Keeping stressed, large and dangerous wild animals close to the public in lightweight, temporary enclosures has proven disastrous. Workers and members of the public have been killed and maimed; lions, tigers and elephants have all escaped.
The actual language and bill number will be finalized in the coming days, so please check back for more details.
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Outdated, in humane treatment of wild animals .
The public is NOT entertained by this type of
circus act! Please put law into effect to stop this
cruel practice. Thank you!
This sickens me. Animals are so incident and dependent on us for there well being when in captivity. They should be free ,,, or just leave them be… It’s cruel. For them to be stuck in cages.
Please please stop the cruelty …just pretend they are your children
Wild animals belong in the wild. It in some off the main road freak show. Time to end this Inhumane nightmare for which these amazing animals are subjected to
It’s about time!!
stop this
To maximize profit, traveling exhibitions use grueling itineraries that force all of their animals to endure cramped living quarters, limited social interaction, and perpetual stress. Circuses hide this suffering from audiences, who witness only the power and grace of these magnificent animals. The secret is out. The public will not tolerate this unconscionable cruelty any longer.
This makes me very happy. This is such an important bill.
these beautiful animals deserve a better life!
Please…..this is NOT the life intended for God’s creatures. Neither are zoos!
This is the right thing to do!!!!
please look out for the animals need. this is unexceptionable.
Please ban all animals from the circus.
They suffer to make people happy.
Thank you.
Lynda Warner
Must stop
All wild animals deserve to be free, not performing for humans. 🙁
Wild animals do not belong in circuses of any kind
Elephants are not the only circus animals that are suffering. To maximize profit, traveling exhibitions use grueling itineraries that force all of their animals to endure cramped living quarters, limited social interaction, and perpetual stress. Circuses hide this suffering from audiences, who witness only the power and grace of these magnificent animals. The secret is out. The public will not tolerate this unconscionable cruelty any longer
Such beautiful intelligent animals slaves to people! What an injustice to such a GOD GIVEN gift to us. Those people should be ashamed!
OMG!! Thank you for having the intelligence to recognize the obvious!! Many have not yet made the connection, and I commend you! These poor animals are in devastating conditions; trained through brutal conditioning methods, and kept in shoebox size facilities. These people KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING!! They don’t care! I is abominable, and I am so proud of you for taking a stand against it..
I don’t believe any animal should have to pay the cost of there freedom just so we can have a few laughs t his is inhuman an I don’t support any circuses I believe they should have the right to be free an instead we rip them away from the only home they no an force them to put on a show so we can make money seriously this must stop we as humans would not want to be locked up an paraded around for fun so why should they have to
Stop the madness!
BOYCOTT LES CIRQUES !!!!!!!!
Please band all circuses!!!
I don’t live local, but I am so happy to hear that someone is taking action to help stop the abuse of these amazing animals. Thank you!
no more circuses
Please follow and or support Senator Leach in his endeavor to end the inhumane suffering of wild animal circus acts. The confinement and torturous ways of training these wild creatures is purely abuse and should not be tolerated. Thank you for your concern and compassion to end their suffering.
Animals belong in the wild, there is no place for them in captivity ever
I truly believe that subjecting animals to this cruel life style is barbaric. All so we can be amazed at what they do. If you want to be amazed just observe them in their natural habitat, how they love and care for their own.
The beauty and calmness of watching animals in the wild. Should teach every human a lesson.
Even small domestic cats should not be put into cages this small. This just emphasises how cruel circuses are to wild animals who should be roaming free, and of course this picture doesn’t show the abject cruelty they are open to when being made to perform.
Wild and exotic animals do not belong in traveling acts. I support Senator Daylin Leach.
Do what you know is right.
Animals should NOT be used in ANY acts for “entertainment” purposes…..it’s disgraceful and inhumane!!
It’s terrible that this still goes on, please, please back this to stop the suffering of these poor animals
Shop with having these beautiful animals suffer any more !!!!!!!! Mankind hurts and destroys everything for money and are heartless !!!!!
So upsetting. Imagine yourself in those conditions, it would make you go crazy. Please free them, there is too much suffering in this world as it is.
Please take all animals out of the circus. They are not given a choice on performing. They have no way to say they are not happy. We are saying it for them. Please stop!
They deserve a better life.Precious Animals.
please end all circus animal acts.
The circus days are out of the dark ages & their days are over now.
Wild animals should not be used for our entertainment. I support this bill.
I hope all circus’ & shows like that drop the animal acts. Those arent natural.
Please stop using wild animals for entertainment! It’s not safe for humans and it’s cruel to them!!!!
Good on you Senator Leach for being a voice to these beautiful creatures who cannot speak out. I wish everyone had your great way of thinking. Xxx
disgraceful, enough is enough
So good to see!!
circus bill needs support
The Time is NOW
Tous les animaux doivent vivres libres heureux honte sur l’homme qui les surexploitent devener tous végétariens mesdames messieurs et les enfants
Severe confinement and lack of exercise is cruel. Wild animals belong in the wild not behind bars shuttled out for our amusement.
thisis inhumane..
due to severe confinement, lack of free exercise, and the restriction of natural behaviors, animals used in traveling circuses suffer and are prone to health, behavioral, and psychological problems, and therefore it is never humane.
No animals should be suffering, they are wild and they belong to wild environment, no cages, no circus, no backyards. Please set them free
Please help stopping wild animals in circus!
please support Senator Leachs efforts against abuse of wild animals in circuses when they come to pa,big cats and elephants,thank you
Animals are not side show attractions!
Wild animals being in Nature not in a cage!
This should have ended years ago how would they like to be caged !!
Please end circus animal torture. These amazing animals deserve better. They are meant to be free not used for our entertainment
About time this was stopped. It is utterly cruel & disgusting. Why don’t these kind of so and so’s get a real job. I hate circus’s & would NEVER go to one & instruct children of what the poor animals go through for mans gain and they don’t want to go.
This Bill needs passed these animals should be out in wild. Living as GOD intended.
STOP!
Please stop this torture.
Stop this cruelty please. Prove to the world that you people are civilized!!!!!
I’m a PA resident and totally would love to see this happen. As much as I love seeing snimals, I still feel bad for them at fairs and such. I hope this bill gets passed.
stop the circus now!!!!!!!!
Stop animal cruelty ASAP.
Animals need to be freed to live in their own habitat. Their habitat needs to be protected from humans. Period.
Please save these exotic beautiful creatures from a desolate life..
By having wild animal circus we are not only putting the animals in danger but we are also putting the public in great danger. We must remember that these animals are still wild they are routinely abused by trainers which can lead to them going off the deep end and attacking not only their trainer but innocent bystanders. It is time that the wild animal circus comes to an end forever.
Please stop this foolishness and irresponsible torture . It’s I humane .
This is just evil
In Belgium we have a new law to protect wild animals , there are no animals in circus anymore ! They belong in the wild nature !! I hope you will do the same in the USA !
People entertain people animals don’t have to. I would rather see a high wire act, or how many clowns can get in a tiny little car. I’ll take this any day of the week over animals in misery.
Wild animals were not made for captivity nor for our entertainment. Animals should be protected and able to roam the freely. If humans do not like cages or confined spaces what make circus owners think that the animal will. Those who keep animals should be fined or locked up with their names kept on record.
ALL ANIMALS IN CIRCUS’S MUST BE FREED
AND TO BE PLACED IN ANIMAL SANCTUARIES
ALL ANIMAL CIRCUSES SHOULD BE ABOLISHED
WORLDWIDE !!!
No animal should be exploited for human entertainment.
God bless this man!
Animal entertainment acts are not only bad for the animals, they’re bad for people. Captive animals don’t become tame and friendly. After living in a cage and being abused, they get angry and could lash out at people at any time. Please prohibit the use of wild and exotic animals for entertainment in PA.
Wild Cats are just that… WILD. They should not be domesticated or used in any type of human entertainment. If they are abandoned as babies or hurt in some way, only then should they be allowed to be kept in some sort of rehabilitation facility with people who truly know what they are doing. They can be on display in their rehab environment for educational purposes but not used for entertainment.
I agree with the passage of this bill. We need to save our wildlife, not display them. It is not safe for the animals or the public.
Its cruel and abuse they don’t treat them good and deserve to be left in there wild habitat. FREE
SHAME ON OUR GOVERNMENT!!!! YOU ALL ARE AS HORRIBLE AS CHINA!!!!
Thank you for your action against using innocent, sentient, consciously aware beings for human profit and entertainment.
ban them as soon as possible
I don’t live in Pennsylvania not even in US, but sincerely hate justice no matter which part of the world it happens . How could anyone treat animals like this and still call himself a human … These sort of horrible things make me cry and I believe there is a nice hot place in Hell for those who accept such behaviour.
Please don’t support circuses, exhibitors, or entertainers that use and abuse wildlife.
The circuses are not humane: due to severe confinement, lack of free exercise, and the restriction of natural behaviors, animals used in traveling circuses suffer and are prone to health, behavioral, and psychological problems.
The animals are suffering and to prohibit the circuses to have any animal use for entertainment would be just the right thing to do. I can only support the bill.
this needs to stop for all animals in circuses!!!!
To not stop this ie inexcusable . So please listen to the concerned people
Thank you
Kind regards
Please support this bill. What was thought to be entertaining in the past is not. Stop this cruelty to animals. Thank you
Please stop the mistreatment of these beautiful majestic animals
So Long Over Due…..Thank-You For Doing This….
These animals are not meant for this. We should respect them give them rights also. They are God creatures.
Poor conditions for these majestic creatures. The circus is no place for animals!
Animals are not on this earth to entertain us. If only they could speak. Please stop doing this. Thx
We have no right to cage any animal simply for human entertainment. They deserve the right to live as they were intended to be — in the wild. When this cannot happen, animal sanctuaries are the next best alternative.
respect the wild in wild animals
Stop using animals in the circus!
Please STOP the use of wild animals for human entertainment…. These animals SUFFER daily being confined to a cage…. Forced to perform, what kind of life is this for ANY living creature??????
I hate the use of animals in circus’s! Give them the respect and dignity they deserve. Stop this now!
I wish there was a petition added to this…. Sometimes a petition is easier for people to sign rather then do an email. I will be sending mine.
disgusting.
I agree, stop with the animals.
i completely agree these beautiful animals should be set free but since they r in captivity so long much of there lives they would not know how to fend or survive themselves… it is such a sad world for all animals to live nowadays.. The exploitations and killing of any creature should b banned world wide
Stop abuse animals
animals belong in their natural environment being protected they are not for shows or performances its disgusting treating them like this!!!!
One step at a time and never give up the fight for those who can’t speak. Freedom for all animals.
I’m just sickened by all the stories of animal abuse!! I just love animals so much it just doesn’t make sense how some people can think this circus crap is OK!!! This must be stopped and all animal abuse!!!
BRAVO! Senator Leach, we need more people like you in this world, that uses ANIMAL CRUELTY AND DEATH to fill their pockets. GOD bless the Animals.
Thank you so much for using common sense and eliminating ignorance and cruelty to put an end to this type of animal cruelty.
This is wonderful news and should raise awareness of the fate of circus animals with compassionate human beings the world over. Finally the voice of reason wins the day
its time for animals to be released from a lifetime of inprisonment.
I fully support this bill.to stop and prohibit the abuse of animals in a circus…for entertainment or any other exhibit.
Animals should not be in circuses
Animals in the circus is cruel!
LONG OVERDUE recognition that NO ANIMAL belongs in a circus.
The “use” of wild and exotic animals in any type of traveling “entertainment” is INHUMANE!
PLEASE protect these animals and stop this cruelty!
Susan Swartz
Mahtowa Minnesota
Please stop the use of wild and exotic animals in traveling entertainment acts. This is cruel and inhumane!
Help the animals
These precious animals DO NOT DESERVE TO SUFFER!!!!Something must be done! !!!!!
I fully support this bill. It is way overdue and should go in full effect. there is no need to display animals in this forum knowing they are mistreated due to lack of exercise and not in their natural environments that lend itself to poor health and the basic need of letting the animals be “happy.” I hope this bill goes through with flying colors. It would mean possibly saving a lot of animals and helping them live the lives they deserve:)
please end the animal abuse. They deserve better. They need to be at well established Sanctuary for exotic animals.
imprisonment and degradation for profit and amusement. stop it now.
This needs to stop.
All animals deserve to be free
Please stop this cruel inhuman act.
Stop torturing animals.
I’m from New York and I 100% support Senator Leach’s efforts to help end animal suffering.
Come on Congress and senators pass something that is going to be passed to help the caged animals. do something for once you have been the do nothing Congress and Senate 6 years, surprise me !!!!!!
Stop abusing animals.
It’s so much more kind and humane to see these incredible animals living their lives in a beautiful environment than doing stupid tricks in a circus or other types of entertainment. I knew it was wrong even as a child when I was taken to a circus–I hated it!
Kindness Matters to All Living Beings ––
This is CRUELTY
This is CRUELTY
Help END their SUFFERING.
Please let these animals go to an animal sanctuary where they won’t be abused!
ty for caring about animals let’s get this law in nj
poor beautiful cats, please stop this ridiculous pasttime of using wild creatures for show, it is totally not necessary and is actually CRUEL
please don’t use these beautiful creatures for a profit!
Save the Tigers!
please support Senator Leach’s efforts to end the abuse of wild animals when circuses come to the state!!!!!!!
Leave these animals alone where they belong in their natural habitat
All circus animals must be released. Please. For the animals. Thankyou
at least senator leach is making a huge effort in his state to prohibit this cruel transporting. apparently HR 1554 is sitting in someone drawer. kudos to senator leach and i hope it passes in pennsylvannia. all pleas have been ignored in florida but that is because of Ringling lobbyists.
I’s time to treat all of these beautiful creatures with the respect they deserve. Please, please get all of the animals out of the circuses.
This continued use of animals in the circus today makes no sense. They are wild animals that should be protected in the wild or sheltered in wildlife refuges and zoos if necessary. Children and their parents no longer buy the antics of this cruel practice. Please take action to stop this cruelty and dangerous practice.
I support the non-use of exotic animals in circus acts, along with any other cruel acts against these beautiful creatures!
This is cruel and inhumane treatment of animals. The public should be aware of the horrible way they are “kept”. Circuses should not be allowed to “house” any animal just for the sheer purpose of entertaining the crowds. If they must continue let them get more human acts in the rings, and leave the animals alone!
Circuses using wild animals for profit while abusing them must be stopped. Wild animals deserve to spend their lives on earth as they were created to do – in the wild, not stuffed in a cage and tormented by humans.
It is time for civilized individuals to stop exploiting wild or tame (greyhounds) animals. They are not things, but beings, and should be allowed to live their lives without human interference for the sake of making money from their beauty or speed or any other half brained rationalizations.
Please end the suffering of these animals!!! They do not belong in the circuses performing mindless acts for the public. If they want to learn about and see the animals in their natural habitat, go to a sanctuary or safari, not a circus.
Please stop any use of wild and exotic animals to be exploited for humans entertainment. It is excruciating to see how insensitive we have become to our fellow creatures, here, on God’s green earth. Thank you.
This is wrong, I hope this bill becomes law, protect the Animals
Animal lover
I am so glad these animals are now being protected!
Thank you, Senator Leach!
Prohibit that allready!
caged and mistreated animals are NOT entertainment
I applaud Pennsylvania for launching this petition. This issue needs to be resolved now and fortunately has great momentum in the entire world as these same animals are facing extinction in the wild!
Really thought the world had stopped this cruelty. Just disgusting,
i think it’s cruel and barbaric 🙁
Such good news knowing that people are working on animal issues.
In my opinion, all circuses should stop the use of wild animals in all their acts. Abuses have be known for a long time and it is BEYOND time for this to stop.
Thank you for the good news… God bless you.
Zina – Iraq
pas d’animaux dans les cirques, je suis contre
Please stop the use of animals in such cruel ways. Why do humans need to make animals behave like them? We need to learn to enjoy them the way they are supposed to be. I fully support this ban/ bill.
The cages are so small they cannot even turnaround
Please stop wild animals from being the entertaining of people. They have born to be free, plus many of them are facing extinction in the wilds, wich circuses and zoos only worsen the situation by promoting the demand of these magnific creatures.
Senator Leach, congratulations, let Pennsylvania be the first state to enact this legislation, but in order for it to be effective, we must get all states, and owners of these traveling animal acts, to acknowledge the cruelty of the confinement of these animals. We live in an age that this is not the only means for people to see “wild” animals which is probably why this started. Thank you so much for caring.
Animals were born free they should stay that way PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP ZOOS N THE CIRCUS. STOP
please stop this maltreatment of wild animals. It is very wrong.
Well done Senator Daylin Leach!
All animals should be treated with respect!
No civilised nation would allow this to continue!
Senator, please be one of todays “enlighten humans” with a heart and awareness of the suffering these poor animals endure and put an end to this barbaric so called entertainment.
Thank you for helping to stop this cruelty.
all circus should be ban they mistreat animals there in it for the money not to entertain the public everybody should stop going to these circus so all the tortured animals be freed
Please end the abuse and suffering of wild animals in the circus! They are intelligent beings, not to be confined and used for our amusement!!!
rep and senator contacted. I am 100% for the ban of animal use in circuses and traveling exotic animal sideshows. My only concern is the hope that good zoo’s and local rehabbers with education programs will not be affected by this.
Please stop the ALL the suffering.
I completely agree on not keeping these animals in cages this has to stop they were here long before us and now there a show? 3 or 4 250 lbs in a cage for not even one if you senator could get this bill to pass take it to congress to save are wild life and put the in preserves that meet their living conditions oboma can spend mony on charity for black men only but dosent announce it so white aren’t affended take some money safe are wild life without them left we won’t excist at a point as for bees nobody is being educated on them nobody knows they’d starve without them either people are so caught up in tying an elephant to a bar and letting their kids sit on it for a minute for 2 buck I seen last summer it had no water it was 90 plus humid I walked up with waster he said no I threatend him with health and safety of animals the elephant blew it all over it’s body I filled it it drank the whole five gallon bucket we filled twice more and poured over the animal and left a bucket in front to drink once we seen him take it away we turned him ASAP again tied to a bar how sick in a small horse trailer he was traveling in that the back top was cut out for head cause her body didn’t fit that’s just one story if I could speak for every animal on earth I would say thank you for helping me can you help all the others? Again thanks
All these animals are stressed,abused,and forced to do ignorant tricks! Let them have their freedom!
These cats were not meant to live like this. EXTREMELY CRUEL. This must be stopped.
Born Free!!
Stop wild animals from traveling in circuses
We live in 2015 and all the wild animals cannot be wild do to humans!! We need to end display and ownership of all wild animals! Also there should be severe punishment for neglect and abuse in any circumstance!! Thank you
Please help the Tigers & lions!!!
stop it at once!
Stop using live animal’s.
Circus’ using animals have no place in the 21st century !
Wicked misuse of wild animals who should be in the wild but now their best hope is a sanctuary- this cruelty is not “educational”
Wild animals should stay wild ! not shot or taken for money …. !
I hope PA steps up
Deliberate cruelty to our defenseless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. – William Ralph Inge
Pour le bien – être de tous les animaux !
Please stop animal suffering!!!
That would be a very good bill!
Thank you Senator Leach for your compassion, may the bill go through.
I agree we need to stop the cruelty to animals in circuses and even in some zoos and sanctuaries it breaks my heart to see elephants Tigers and many more animals being treated unfairly
I support Senator Leach!
wondeeful news….!!!!
We are supporting the bill 100%
Right On Pennsylvania
This is inhumane – funny, only man can do this to another living creature.
Stop the cruel treatment of animals for profit !
Please make this stop – what a miserable, demeaning life!
Please save the Tigers from inhumane abuse.
Vraiment honteux
I support the close of this circus and fot the animals have a btr life in freedom.
All this must stop….together we can stop the torture of these beautiful animals who deserve a good life
It’s so bad, hope u can save them from a life like this
Please ban the use of wild animals on roadside shows and the like.
NO MORE TRAINED BIG CATS, ELEPHANTS,
BEARS, ETC !!
Animals don’t belong in circuses!
The animal welfare community is having an impact, city by city, state by state, country by country. We have much work left to do, this is a great start.
stop make money with animals.
I do want them to be let go, but what happens next? How do we care for them all, when they are abandoned??
Hi Kelly, the animals can be rehomed in sanctuaries where they can live out the rest of their lives in peace. ADI rescued all of the circus animals in Bolivia and are presently working with the authorities in Peru and Colombia to help implement their wild animal bans.
Do not kill these animals.
Do not kill these animals.That has to be very stressful for them while being in the circus. Give them a sanctuary where they can enjoy life.
stop !!
i ‘am totaly aganist useing exotic animals for entertainment.or breeding to buy for a pet. but also ned to stop useung up there habitath. they are losing there part of this earth to live on. i believe the artic white bearwill be gone befor we know it. the polar ice caps are melting at alarming rate. trees still are ‘nt protected like they need to be . all us humans need to be good earth shepards. or we wont have aything to shepard.
Set them free , living in cages is very cruel.
Set the big cats free, making them live in cages is cruel, no room to move freely around.
Please stop animals being used in circuses
please sign this petition !,, so important to give these poor things freedom….in the wilds where they belong !!! Not caged and tortured.”inhuman
they need freedom…..not caged and tortured
YOU GUYS CALL YOURSELF HUMAN????…..YOU ARE A DISGRACE …I GET SO ANGRY WHEN I SEE WHAT WE DO TO ANIMALS….ID LOVE TO DO THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN….
Using the suffering of others animals for our entertainment is wrong and immoral. After the lights are dimmed and the show is over, the animals get packed up in tight confining spaces. Shipped all over with no comforts. It is inhumane. It is unnatural and stressful on the animals.
It can’t be right to keep wild animals in cages. Its all about the money, -so so wrong to earn money this way !
No animals should be used to entertain anyone. They deserve to live their lives in a suitable environment and not be abused or killed by anyone.
Yea for the people who have the power to make changes finally take up the cause of animal health and welfare. Keep up the good work. You are just who those of us who know the truth about animal care salute you!
This is a much needed law! Should be federal!
Please help support this very important legislation. It is time for exploitation of animals to end.
i totally agree no wild animals should be used or owned by humans in anyway they are WILD let’s keep it that way
this is so disgusting to me & needs to stop.These are Gods creatures & need to be set free.Its animal cruelty in the highest form.STOP USING THESE BEAUTIFUL CATSFOR YOUR OWN GAINS.
Yes, it is vary important that all exotic animals not be allowed dealing with the public. These animals are stuck in small cages, have health problems and behavior problems and are stressed. Please make sure these animals are placed in safe sanctuaries to live out their life away from the public. They deserve a better life then a small cage.——Thank you
Animals are intelligent creatures just like us that deserve rights and freedom and basic needs. Circuses and amusement parks do not support animals and actually humiliate and torture them. These things need to stop.
this wrong please allow these animals a better life, take care of and respect amazing animals, thank you
time has passed for this no one wants this any more
due to severe confinement, lack of free exercise, and the restriction of natural behaviors, animals used in traveling circuses suffer and are prone to health, behavioral, and psychological problems, and therefore it is never humane.
WE LOVE ANIMALS!!!
Animals are more civilized than humans!
these animals should not be in cages and put on show would you do this to your children
They are God creatures and should be free
Save the animals that are in the circus!
It’s time to put an end to circuses and any acts that used animals. It’s archaic and cruel.
please, please let this end now!!!! Put your animals or yourself ( for real) in their situation, abused, torch erred, not humane. We need to be the generation to say ENOUGH!!! These poor animals have a bleak future as it is, with hunting, eating them fur trade….I could go on forever, they DESERVE their lives to be lived out away from their abusers in peace and comfort. Plus these animals make not a cent of the work they do no special love or treatment, is this what you want our kids or grandchildren to see that it is ok to abuse a breathing feeling animal for money and fame….I don’t think you do in your hearts. Please hear us as their voices, it’s time to end this NOW!
WILD ANIMALS DO NOT BELONG IN THE CIRCUS. THAT’S NOT WHAT THEY WERE PUT ON EARTH FOR.
Please help free them all!
this is cruel this animals are beautiful and majestic they must be allowed to be free and live the life they are meant to live
Put them in a safe place and let them live there lives how they should have been in the wild.
Stop animal cruelty
Where do I sign a petition?
Animals should be free away from our cruelty
Look how miserable and mistreated these innocent animals are! It’s got to stop!
Please stop allowing this madness!!
dDue to severe confinement, lack of free exercise, and the restriction of natural behaviors, animals used in traveling circuses suffer and are prone to health, behavioral, and psychological problems, and therefore it is never humane.
Circuses with wild animals are not safe for animals or the public. Keeping stressed, large and dangerous wild animals close to the public in lightweight, temporary enclosures has proven disastrous. Workers and members of the public have been killed and maimed; lions, tigers and elephants have all escaped.
I agonize over the cruelty that can be so rampant in what is called civilization. These beautiful, innocent creatures are considered a commodity to those who exploit their beauty for the almighty dollar. It is a matter of the Homo Sapien species domination of a “lesser species,” ( a term that I abhor. All exhibitions of exotic animals should be summarily banned permanently.
Maybe other states will follow along!
Thank You!!
Pelo fim da exploração de Animais, em “circos”, boicotemos, já!!!
It’s way past time to stop animal abuse every where, especially the circus!!! Find some other way to entertain the people. This majestic animals should not be made to suffer for people’s entertainment!!!!!
It’s About Time!
Let’s start being what we claim to be. …humans
please ban all zoos and circuses
I hope New York will consider this as well. Want to see an exotic animal then turn on the discovery channel. Zoos should be outlawed too. Wild animals should live in the WILD.
Circuses are no longer relevant. We all know the animals suffer and are being exploited.
What kind of “joy” does that bring to these so called greatest shows on earth.
What an atrocious act of depravity.
Circus animals need to stop. I’m from Australia and we have one Elephant left to rescue. Animals suffering isn’t the way of 2015.
Imagine yourself or your family having to preform tricks just to eat. It’s cruel.
Regards Suzanne Varga.
Please stop the inhumane practice of confining wild animals close to the public in lightweight containers.They are stressed, unhealthy and dangerous.
People have been maimed and killed and the public is at risk.
Circuses are inherently inhumane and have no place in modern society.
As a Pennsylvania expat, I wish I were there so I could vote for Sen. Leach. Pennsylvania will be applauded for this bill, soon-to-be law. In the long run, the law will pay off in many different ways.
Please leave the wild animals in the wild.
Wild life are not ours to cage and abuse. Wild life belongs in nature not in cages
I applaud the introduction of a state bill to prohibit the use of wild and exotic animals in traveling acts.
It’s time we stopped exploiting animals and start recognize animals’ needs.
This type of entertainment has to stop. It is mindless and cruel entertainment enforced upon the poor animals. It is disgraceful that in the year 2015 this is still going on and people actually go and watch it. The human race really disappoints me but not as much as the trainers and owners of the circuses.
These Animals deserve to be treated with dignity. They need to be in a sanctuary, where they can live as free as possible!
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We HAVE NOT have been ‘given’ dominion over the beasts of the earth; this is a man made concept. We have developed more devious brains but this is not an excuse to exploit and abuse other species. Cruelty is sickening to a highly evolved society. Perpetrating abuse of wildlife demonstrates just what underdeveloped morality and sensitivity those who do it – and those who PAY to watch it – have.
To whom it may concern,
Please stop using animals, who are often endangered, in circuses. This inhumane treatment of these animals is out of place in the modern world.
This has got to stop now!!!!
I totally support this bill, wild animals should not be paraded around for human entertainment, they should be in the wild where they belong. We learn absolutely nothing from captive animals as they do not display any natural behavior, keeping them locked up is extremely unnatural!
I support the circus bill that protects the rights of animals from cruelty and mistreatment.
No more circus acts and no more cruelty to any animal, large or small.
I LIVE in PA, I do not understand why when I click onto your story to contact my Senator & State Rep – I’m redirected to sign into my Microsoft account??? I should not have to use my username and password to sign into my Microsoft account. What is this?
Hi Jacquelynn, try the link now – it should work for you.
I would like to know who actually visits these circuses !?!?
And is it really that profitable ? , is it worth all of the pain and suffering caused to these prisoners ? .
Animals were NOT born for human entertainment- stop animal circuses now!!
Animals are not entertainment.
Horrible! The poor animals are literally sitting on top of one another because they have no room. These amazing animals deserve much more than this! Do these trainers/handlers have no hearts?!