Stop Carson & Barnes Circus From Coming To Mckinleyville, California

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Arcata Kiwanis Club

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The Carson & Barnes Circus is returning to Mckinleyville in September. This is one of the most abusive circuses in the country. They are continually cited by the USDA for not caring for their animals. Here is a link that lists years of citations that they have received: www.circuses.com/pdfs/CarsonBarnes_fact.pdf In 2002, PETA released undercover footage of elephant training at Carson & Barnes Circus. Tim Frisco, the circus's animal care director, was caught on tape viciously attacking elephants with a bullhook

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and an electric prod. In the video you can hear the elephants scream as he jabs them. On tape he says: "Hurt 'em...Make 'em scream... Sink that hook into them...When you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention." This is what he was saying to his trainees. This DVD of abuse can be viewed online at::http://www.circuses.com/

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Circus animals spend their entire lives in hot trucks being carted around the country. When they aren't in the trucks, they are in the ring performing for humans. This is not a life. This is an existence. This is slavery.

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Many circus elephants carry the human strain of tuberculosis called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is a fatal disease. The feces of elephants from the Carson & Barnes Circus has tested positive for this highly contagious disease. They have been cited over and over by the USDA for not regularly testing their elephants for TB and have kept unhealthy elephants performing and endangering lives. I really don't think the Arcata Kiwanis members have any idea what the Carson & Barnes animals go through. I don't think anyone in their right mind would hire this circus in good conscience knowing their barbaric mistreatment and neglect of their animals.

Please Sign This Petition Asking
The Arcata Kiwanis Club in Arcata, California To Cancel Their Contract With The Carson & Barnes Circus.

(Note: The Carson & Barnes Elephant Pictured Here Is Positive For TB When This Picture Was Taken. Notice The Small Boy Feeding Her? I Hope He's TB Free.)

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3:51 pm PST, Nov 13, Jasmin Rosales, Australia

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10:40 am PDT, Oct 28, Timea Melinda Kovacs, Romania

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10:51 am PDT, Oct 24, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

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6:24 am PDT, Oct 14, Roxanne Acosta, Florida

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3:58 am PDT, Oct 14, Susan Holmes, United Kingdom

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6:13 am PDT, Oct 12, M Jones, Texas
I have always believed that the animals are mistreated in the circus. I thought it looked cruel that these animals are forced to perform but I didn't know how cruel it actually is until I started reading about the hooks and different things that inflict pain, as if just being on display against their will isn't enough. I live near Lubbock, Texas and I recently saw a sign about the circus coming to Lubbock. I would like to do something if I can to educate people about the animal abuses.

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1:53 am PDT, Sep 19, Giovanna Di Mella, Italy

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8:58 pm PDT, Sep 18, Laura Stringer, Maryland
Stop the cruelty!!

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5:15 am PDT, Sep 16, Paul Lowe, United Kingdom

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4:11 am PDT, Sep 14, Forever Barbick, Illinois

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9:35 pm PDT, Sep 11, Marc Marroyen, Belgium

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9:34 pm PDT, Sep 11, Iryna Marroyen, Belgium

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11:32 pm PDT, Sep 10, Melissa MacDonald, California
There is no justification in using animals in the circus. These animals were not created to do such things. They are an important part of our eco-system, and we have no right whatever to take these animals out of their habitat for the sake of entertainment, or for any other reason. How sad it is to me that these animals experience daily a life of abuse at the hands of a humsn beings! Circuses need to be banned all over the world, and you people who make your living on this horrible cruelty need to look elsewhere! The animals are not yours to do this to! On behalf of the animals. Melissa MacDonald

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5:23 am PDT, Sep 9, Adriana Guevara, Colombia

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11:57 pm PDT, Sep 2, Eileen Anderson, Ohio

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2:00 pm PDT, Sep 2, Name not displayed, California
These people are sick, disgusting freaks. My 4 year old son always asks about going to a circus, but there is no way I would ever let him whitness animals that have been treated so cruely. Tim Frisco needs to be shut down and have every single animal taken away from him he should also be prosecuted and jailed for animal cruelty. I really hope something gets done about this.

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11:59 am PDT, Sep 2, Noah Collins, California
I was going to take my two boys to the circus today. I got online to find show times and saw this link. After watching that video there is no way we will be going to that circus. That asshole should be in jail, why isn't he? This needs to get out to more people. There should be someone at the gate with a laptop or something to show people this video before they buy tickets. This is Humboldt County, animal lovers everywhere, 100% of the people that watch that video will not enter the gate, this circus would never come back again.

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11:31 am PDT, Aug 31, Mollie Morrissette, California

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9:19 am PDT, Aug 30, Victoria Eisermann, United Kingdom

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1:37 pm PDT, Aug 28, Amanda Davies, Connecticut
The circus is overrated and wrong. Any circus anywhere, they continue to make money off of innocent animals. The animals are often cruelly treated, and this needs to stop!

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11:57 am PDT, Aug 20, Delliana Of the Sea, Colorado

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2:34 pm PDT, Aug 19, JOSEPHINE CAMPBELL, Washington
I have recently learned about this on going abuse, after recieving tickets to attend the Carson and Barnes Circus coming to our area this weekend, I did my own research to find out how inhumaine this show is after a friend of my made a comment that they abuse their animals........... this is too sad to let any child sit and watch. :(

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2:29 pm PDT, Aug 19, Debbie Binion, Washington
Animals do not have to be abused to perform. Their are human ways to have animals do tricks. I see it all the time with horses.

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