Ring of Cruelty

Animals in circuses live a life of restriction, cages, chains and constant transportation. All for a few minutes peforming in the ring in the name of 'entertainment'.

Filmed by the Captive Animals' Protection Society inside circuses in Ireland in 2006 and 2003, this is a video exposes how the animals are treated and housed.

It's time to end the 'ring of cruelty'

View the full 12-minute video at http://www.captiveanimals.org/irishcircuses

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• circus
• cruelty
• animals
• animal
• tricks
• exploitation
• suffering
• elephant
• CAPS
• captive animals
• captivity
• irish circuses
• ireland
• tigers
• stereotypic beahviour
• big top
• camels
• cages
• giraffe
• wild

[icemaiden06]

never liked circuses ....and have seen how the treat animals the repetition,cramped cages/enclosures, chained up beatings....a hell on earth for animals.

[jstwantU2noMe69]

wat i dont understand about circuses is..why dont anyone stop them. all that suffering an crulety ..i just dont understand . i hate circuses and never go to them. ever since i was lil and could undertand right from wrong..i never want to any ever again. and nither should anyone who loves animals. theres alot that goes on behind closed doors unseen to public eye. its sick..and heartbreaking. should be banned. i cant believe there are still circuses thats what i dont get.

[Sergine75]

Boycott circuses with animals !

[thony688]

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

--Arthur Schopenhauer

[poppybugs]

i stopped at the bit where the eilphant was made 'dance'. thats sick. really sick. this video doesn't even show half of what goes on. and i dont wanna see what goes on as i would puke. #stopanimalcrualty

[tazrockslikecool456]

my dad told me a story about this guy who used white tigers in his act. one day one of his tigers went insane and bit him on the head.he got a mental illness and a learning disorder

[CRY5IZ]

i am a circus fan it makes me sick how the Irish people talk about circuses Aniamls are treated 100 percent right

[Tabaamy]

I am so glad I've never been to a circus that uses animals.

[freevue]

Ask CAPS about Defra's public consultation and free survey on use of wild animals in UK circuses. Closes 15 March 2010 so a hot topic at present !

[acacheerleader1]

then they get mad because the animal has died, and it's the circus's fault for it!!!!!!!!! ugh

[Gimme3GramsOfMadman]

Now that's a great idea, the most interesting comment I've heard so far.

[journeyman47]

Great video. Are nonhuman animals now illegal in Irish circuses as I believe they are in Britain?