Born to be wild: free ‘performing’ circus animals

I CAN’T understand why travelling circuses feel the need to have wild animals such as tigers forced to ‘perform’ for audiences.

This is wanton cruelty and one must wonder why it hasn’t been outlawed long ago. Also, what kind of example does it send to young children who should be learning to treat all animals with the love they deserve? If all animal lovers banded together and condemned this barbarity, then maybe it would dawn on the circus-owners that good fun can be provided without making poor animals prance around in front of a ringmaster.

Vic McKeever