If you love elephants and tigers the circus is the last place you would go. These animals have only known a lifetime of misery from constants confinement and cruel training methods. In the past two years Cole Bros has paid $165,000 in fines for violating the Animal Welfare Act and the Endangered Species Act.
Tim Frisco is their elephant handler you won’t see him using his bullhook much in public because of the way he trains baby and adult elephants to perform behind closed doors. These animals fear the beating and shocks with the electric prod they will receive if they mess up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iouGQD6lf6A Those are two sad looking elephants in the photo, most people do not know that elephants mirror the human species and like humans suffers from PTSD from all the years of physical and mental abuse suffered at the hands of the circus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-species_psychology
The elephants are leased from Carson & Barnes. Currently, there are 4 C&B elephants being held in isolation in Wisconsin because one has tested positive for exposure to TB. Please take this into consideration before you let your children participate in elephant rides or better yet, please don't take your children to this circus.
In July of 2011 the USDA filed charges against the Cole Bros. Circus for numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act including “failure to provide veterinary care to an emaciated elephant, failure to handle an elephant in a way that minimized the risk of harm to the public and the elephant, handlers who lacked the training and knowledge to handle tigers and elephants in public, and selling tigers without a dealer license.” These violations should have resulted in a substantial fine, but on April 9, 2012, Cole Bros. reached a $15,000 settlement with the USDA for violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
As of February 2008, Cole Bros. no longer has its own USDA license and leases animal acts from other circuses, including Carson & Barnes Circus which the USDA fined for elephant abuse after employees were caught on videotape beating elephants with bullhooks and shocking them with electric prods. Many of the animal acts used by Cole Bros. have been cited by the USDA for numerous violations including failing to provide veterinary care. In 2011, Cole Bros. and its president pleaded guilty to violating the Endangered Species Act by illegally selling two Asian elephants and were sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $150,000 in fines.
The current elephant "handler/trainer" with Cole Brothers is Tim Frisco, notorious for his brutal “training” of elephants. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulw7RtZoao
Animals in circuses and traveling shows suffer horrific abuse, cruelty, neglect and exploitation. Magnificent big cats like lions and tigers are housed in cramped cages, majestic elephants are shackled and chained in trucks and train box cars; “training” methods utilize violence, fear, and intimidation to make animals perform ridiculous unnatural stunts. Not only is the physical abuse appalling, but the deprivation of any natural behaviors, choices and instincts is cruel.
Countries around the world, as well as municipalities in the United States, have partial or full bans on circus with animals. The Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, H.R. 3359 would amend the A.W.A. to restrict the use of exotic and non-domesticated animals in circuses and traveling shows. http://breakthechainus.com/
The overwhelming evidence and documentation of the abuse animals endure in circuses is irrefutable. The more knowledgeable the public becomes about the suffering of circus animals and the serious safety issues involved with using dangerous animals in performances, the less inclined they will be to support, promote, employ and attend circuses that abuse and exploit animals. If we all make a more informed and compassionate choice we can end this abuse and cruelty.
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Ellie
6:52 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012
If you love elephants and tigers the circus is the last place you would go. These animals have only known a lifetime of misery from constants confinement and cruel training methods. In the past two years Cole Bros has paid $165,000 in fines for violating the Animal Welfare Act and the Endangered Species Act.
Tim Frisco is their elephant handler you won’t see him using his bullhook much in public because of the way he trains baby and adult elephants to perform behind closed doors. These animals fear the beating and shocks with the electric prod they will receive if they mess up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iouGQD6lf6A
Those are two sad looking elephants in the photo, most people do not know that elephants mirror the human species and like humans suffers from PTSD from all the years of physical and mental abuse suffered at the hands of the circus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-species_psychology
C
10:33 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012
The elephants are leased from Carson & Barnes. Currently, there are 4 C&B elephants being held in isolation in Wisconsin because one has tested positive for exposure to TB. Please take this into consideration before you let your children participate in elephant rides or better yet, please don't take your children to this circus.
Ellie
12:46 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012
21 pages from the State of Wisconsin about Carson & Barnes Circus illegal entry without permits and one of their elephants has tested positive for exposure to TB.
http://www.allanimals.org/files/Carson_&_Barnes_Circus_DATCP_8-2012.pdf
This is the same TB found in humans.
HR3359TEAPA
3:54 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
In July of 2011 the USDA filed charges against the Cole Bros. Circus for numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act including “failure to provide veterinary care to an emaciated elephant, failure to handle an elephant in a way that minimized the risk of harm to the public and the elephant, handlers who lacked the training and knowledge to handle tigers and elephants in public, and selling tigers without a dealer license.” These violations should have resulted in a substantial fine, but on April 9, 2012, Cole Bros. reached a $15,000 settlement with the USDA for violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
As of February 2008, Cole Bros. no longer has its own USDA license and leases animal acts from other circuses, including Carson & Barnes Circus which the USDA fined for elephant abuse after employees were caught on videotape beating elephants with bullhooks and shocking them with electric prods. Many of the animal acts used by Cole Bros. have been cited by the USDA for numerous violations including failing to provide veterinary care. In 2011, Cole Bros. and its president pleaded guilty to violating the Endangered Species Act by illegally selling two Asian elephants and were sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $150,000 in fines.
Cole Brothers Fact Sheet: http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/PDF/Cole_Bros_Circus_Factsheet.pdf
HR3359TEAPA
3:54 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The current elephant "handler/trainer" with Cole Brothers is Tim Frisco, notorious for his brutal “training” of elephants. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulw7RtZoao
Animals in circuses and traveling shows suffer horrific abuse, cruelty, neglect and exploitation. Magnificent big cats like lions and tigers are housed in cramped cages, majestic elephants are shackled and chained in trucks and train box cars; “training” methods utilize violence, fear, and intimidation to make animals perform ridiculous unnatural stunts. Not only is the physical abuse appalling, but the deprivation of any natural behaviors, choices and instincts is cruel.
Countries around the world, as well as municipalities in the United States, have partial or full bans on circus with animals. The Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, H.R. 3359 would amend the A.W.A. to restrict the use of exotic and non-domesticated animals in circuses and traveling shows. http://breakthechainus.com/
The overwhelming evidence and documentation of the abuse animals endure in circuses is irrefutable. The more knowledgeable the public becomes about the suffering of circus animals and the serious safety issues involved with using dangerous animals in performances, the less inclined they will be to support, promote, employ and attend circuses that abuse and exploit animals. If we all make a more informed and compassionate choice we can end this abuse and cruelty.