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*Eyewitness TESTIMONIES* LETTER - FROM A CIRCUS EMPLOYEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HAWTHORN, THE USDA, & LOTA'S STORY
How some of America's best zoos get rid of their old, infirm, and unwanted animals
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The 2004 Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants CEMENT & HARD PACKED DIRT FLOORING BAD FOR ELEPHANTS USDA Ignores Ringling Bros.’ Elephant Abuse http://www.awionline.org/pubs/Quarterly/03-52-4/524p5.htm
THE FOLLOWING IS ONE OF MANY EYEWITNESS TESTIMONIES WE HAVE ON THIS SITE, TO THE CRUELTY SEEN TO THE ELEPHANT EVERYDAY AS PART OF CIRCUSES HERE IN THE USA, CLICK ON: TESTIMONIES TO SEE MORE - " The elephants at Carson and Barnes live on a steady diet of hay and sweet grain (sweet feed). Elephants need whole, green vegetation, fruits and the larger variety of foods that they would encounter foraging. Many of C&B's elephants are bloated, with pinched faces and thin legs, they have terrible gas and they also had terrible body odor, partly from living in their own filth. The elephants drink only as much as the handlers would let them, before they got bored and I saw the elephants being forced away from the water more than once. They aren't allowed to spray water on their backs, nor do they ever get to lay in water, so they have very thick, flaky dry skin that you could hear scratching as they would go by. I watched a very sweet elly named Minnie stuffing mud into some cracks in her skin one day, when it had rained so much that there was water standing in the tent. She was looking around as if afraid to be caught, and the only reason she got a chance to do it in the first place was because the muddy conditions made things chaos and her handler was preoccupied. Sometimes the cracks would ooze blood, and there would be flies in the sores, and the handlers would use the wounds as a spot to inflict pain, making the wound worse. It's no wonder that many performing elephants have numerous scars and warts, which grow up around wounds that aren't being allowed to heal" - by eyewitness Tosti
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CLICK ON PICTURE to reach Circuses.com link on Ringling Bros. (** Please note the elephant in the background being forced to step out on the very steep ramp) RINGLING BROS. - PETA.org also has U.S. government documents showing that Ringling has repeatedly failed to meet minimum standards for animal care as established by the federal Animal Welfare Act. One government report shows that Ringling paid $20,000 to settle charges of failure to provide veterinary care to a dying baby elephant. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has also cited Ringling for failure to possess records of veterinary care, failure to provide animals with sufficient space and exercise, and endangering tigers suffering from extreme heat because of poor maintenance of their enclosures. In less than two years, two baby elephants died, a caged tiger was shot to death, a horse used in the circus despite a chronic medical condition died, and a wild-caught sea lion was found dead in her transport container. USDA Ignores Ringling Bros.’ Elephant Abuse http://www.awionline.org/pubs/Quarterly/03-52-4/524p5.htm ******
Please, Help the innocent
Hector
Montes ~~~ is now living a peaceful life at the Elephant Santuary in Tennessee click here to READ HER FULL STORY!!
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Circus Elephants Are 'Hooked' on
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ARTICLES ON SCOTT RIDDLE, click here ******
Petitions, Current bills in congress, Press releases, and more!
****** Elephant Abuse Case at Oregon Zoo Needs Your Help ****** 1976 - 1996 http://www.zoocheck.com/programs/entertain/Incident1.shtml
****** Click here for information on: Youth Opposed to Animal Acts Denver, CO ****** Please support Banning Circuses using animals in their acts in the city of Denver, CO. Councilman Charlie Brown says he is going to speak out forcefully against this ban. Please email him your thoughts at: The Newspapers in Denver also need to hear your voice please: Please support the organization in Denver that is trying to help the animals in the circuses with this ban: Youth Opposed to Animal Acts Denver, CO
****** SHRINERS TO STOP SUPPORTING CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ****** ARTICLES ON SCOTT RIDDLE, click here ****** Activists Denounce Thailand's Elephant "Crushing" Ritual ******
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PETA Asks Ringling to Stop Hiring Dangerous Criminals ****** CIRCUSES.com - QUICK FACT SHEET ****** No Place for ElephantsBy Gil Lamont ****** ELEPHANT EMOTIONS - GRIEVING: http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Senses/Grieving/grieving.html ****** Circus brings tradition, controversy ****** Seized elephant has long history of abuse ****** PETA'S ELEPHANT CAMPAIGN - LOTA ****** ****** ******
****** Please write your congressmen to stop the cruel abuse of circus elephants and exotics.
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BIG NEWS!:
THAT THE USDA WANTS TO SEND THERESCUED 16 ELEPHANTS FROM JOHN CUNEO'S, USDA SHUT-DOWN, HAWTHORNE CIRCUS TRAINING BARN! BUT, THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE NEEDS HELP IN BUILDING THE BARNS AND HIRING THE CARING ELE KEEPERS TO TAKE CARE OF THEM! PLEASE GO TO THE PAGE BELOW TO READ UP ON THE CASE AND TO SEE IF YOU CAN HELP, THANK YOU!!!!
Hawthorn Corporation (John Cuneo) leases animals to Shrine Circuses, Walker Bros Circus, Jordan World Circus, Circus Vargas, Royal Palace Circus, George Carden Circus, Hanneford Circus, Hamid Circus, Alain Zerbini, and Tarzan Zerbini. Please do not go to those circuses, if you do, you support Hawthorn Corp!! Notify the media in your town if they come there, notify the public officials, let the mayor know what is happening in your town!!!! The USDA recently confiscated one of John Cuneo's elephants from the Hawthorn Corp, Delhi, see what they say about Hawthorn! The hearing is in March in Washington, DC: Read the USDA CHARGES! ****** SOMEONE PLEASE! CAN YOU HEAR ME? by Victoria Heuman - victoriaellenb@comcast.net 
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