End the use of animals in Ringling Bros. Circuses!

1:22 pm PDT, Apr 18, Christine Carr, New Jersey
The mistreatment of elephants and other circus animals makes me sick. I will never attend another circus that uses animals in any way.

8:42 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, California

4:52 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, France
Grr

7:28 am PDT, Apr 16, Alexis Schilke, Ohio
animals are not toys! treat like they are humans too!!

10:11 pm PDT, Apr 13, K. Blake, Texas
The abuse of Ringling Bros. circus elephants -- well documented by animal welfare organizations, state humane agencies, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors -- violates both the federal Endangered Species Act and the Animal Welfare Act, which prohibit the abuse of endangered animals used in entertainment. Please help show support for kinder, more humane entertainment on TV and in the arena! Thank you for your help!

3:54 pm PDT, Apr 13, Christine Custer, Wisconsin
It is wrong. Plain and simple. The suffering of animals for others enjoyment is pure untolerable cruelty and needs to stop

5:45 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, Colorado

11:59 am PDT, Apr 3, Kathy Santry, New Mexico
It is inhumane treatment of animals, which is illegal. If they continue using animals, period, and to train them inhumanely, I will continue to seek that they be charged, tried, convicted, and incarcerated.

11:51 am PDT, Apr 3, Meghan McNamara, New York

11:14 am PDT, Apr 3, Erin Pennill, New York
they should all be arrested FOR LIFE

9:29 am PDT, Apr 3, Name not displayed, Minnesota
YOU BELONG IN JAIL-- GET A REAL JOB

4:51 am PDT, Apr 2, Merry Laverne Borden, Georgia

5:38 pm PDT, Apr 1, Bill Mazzola, New Jersey
Please stop the abuse of animals, just so we can be entertain? Does this make sense?

5:35 pm PDT, Apr 1, Julie Mazzola, New Jersey
Would you want to be hit with a prod?

2:59 pm PDT, Mar 26, Ramon Pujol, Spain

8:15 am PDT, Mar 24, Philippe Ducreux, France

9:14 am PDT, Mar 22, Art Deco, Maine

5:40 am PDT, Mar 21, Avril Kettle, United Kingdom

9:16 am PDT, Mar 20, Cheyenne Wolf, Montana
I WILL NOT GO TO ANY CIRCUSES OR ANYTHING OF THE LIKE FOR THESE VERY REASONS!!! IT IS TOTAL ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ONLY PROFIT FOR THE THOSE IN THE CIRCUSES! I WISH PEOPLE WOULD GET MORE OF AN EDUCATION OF WHAT OUR ANIMALS TRULY GO THRU AND BOYCOTT CIRCUSES ALTOGETHER!

8:53 am PDT, Mar 20, Amy Feazel, Florida

10:52 am PDT, Mar 19, Nina Sarkissian, United Kingdom
The obvious reason for this gross exploitation of the natural world is money. If people stopped handing over their cash this cruelty would end overnight and the 'people' who derive a sense of self importance from humiliating majestic animals, will have to get real jobs.

8:40 pm PDT, Mar 18, Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin
More than a year ago I took my children to see this for the first time. I remembered enjoying it when I was little and my husband came home with tickets, so we went. The only thing I could think of the entire time was how cruelly the animals were treated. The cats were at the point where one almost attacked the man ordering it around and he whipped it in the face quickly. After that, I told my husband to never take us there again.

10:45 am PDT, Mar 18, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
The circus needs to stop period.

5:17 pm PDT, Mar 12, Eric Nyman, New Jersey

2:45 am PDT, Mar 10, Alicia Madlala, South Africa
Animals deserve to free!!

7:25 am PST, Mar 3, Name not displayed, France
Circuses can still be popular without the use of animals, in fact they may be more popular without animals. Please show some humanity and stop this practice now.

4:18 am PST, Mar 3, Nicola Lyness, Spain

12:21 am PST, Mar 3, Tony Harrison, United Kingdom

12:18 pm PST, Mar 2, Alyson Green, Spain
I was appalled to see video footage of the cruelty that takes place in training these poor animals. Also the conditions that they are kept in sickens me. This isn't the "Greatest Show on Earth", this is the "Cruelest Show on Earth". I don't know how these people manage to sleep at night. But you know what they say "what goes around comes around".

4:02 am PST, Mar 1, Laura Sánchez, Spain

6:24 am PST, Feb 26, Elena Rojas, Peru
Stop animal cruelty. Animals should not be abused, tortured, humiliated. We should protect them, feed them, give them veterinarian attention, etc. We should not use animals just for fun, for business, or else. Please be human!!

8:21 pm PST, Feb 23, Jerry Jackson, Alabama
all animals need love and good care that we see you do not give!!

1:37 pm PST, Feb 22, Arlette Scharer, Switzerland

4:43 pm PST, Feb 21, Andrea Negron, North Carolina
Why?? Don't you feel bad. When a child gets abused or neglected do you feel disgusted?? It's the same with ANY animal it's like you are killing or abusing a little child.

1:41 pm PST, Feb 18, Shannon Bartosh, Nebraska

8:43 am PST, Feb 18, Anu Kamath, Minnesota
The way circuses treat animals is appalling. Stop using wild animals for our entertainment. It's just not right.

9:53 pm PST, Feb 14, Megan Jo, Oregon
Yes you need to teach them,but you can find other ways to do it!!! How would you feel if we strapped you to things and started whipping you and doing al the things you do right back to you?!?!?! Yea,I bet you wouldn't like it very much. You need to take the animal's needs and feelings into consideration!

10:26 am PST, Feb 13, Rajshree Boyragee, Mauritius

8:41 pm PST, Feb 7, Kristine Allison, North Dakota
Keeping wild animals in any type of container while traveling is cruel. My family will never see a circus with any animals performing.

6:07 pm PST, Feb 6, Donna White, Louisiana
It is cruel to use animals in a manner that does not respect their natural abilities nor provide them with natural habitat. Further, it is a disservice to children to show them animals in this manner.

11:56 am PST, Feb 6, Karen Gray, Indiana

11:36 am PST, Feb 6, Sarah Grunwald, California

6:10 pm PST, Feb 5, Emilie Jurkiewicz, Michigan
Its isn't right for wild animals to be treated that way. The only reason you should be able to have exotic animals in your circus is you are treating them PROBERELY.

10:01 am PST, Jan 28, SANDRA ROCHA, Portugal
Stop abusing and acts of barbarian cruelty against animals!

7:50 pm PST, Jan 23, Teresa Smith, Arizona

4:24 pm PST, Jan 23, Name not displayed, North Carolina

10:05 pm PST, Jan 16, Erika Champion, Illinois

1:41 pm PST, Jan 16, Della Ramirez, California
Wild animals were not meant to be kept in cages.

9:35 pm PST, Jan 11, Name not displayed, Rhode Island
STOP THE CRUELTY!!! NO ANIMALS SHOULD BE USED OR ABUSED IN THE CIRCUS!!!

11:10 am PST, Jan 10, Jackie Powell, Colorado
Here's something straight from my mouth and my beliefs.: Together we can help to make sure that another innocent life isn't lost at the hands of an abuser. See anyone can be abusive, it's up to us to make sure they don't have a chance to hurt or kill their next victim.If you think a child, animal,or person is being abused, Please Speak Up ! You may be their only link to freedom. Remember all animals and children have feelings too,even if we don't speak the same language. If you see the fear of questions within their innocent trusting eyes,or feel the pain theyre in with the echo of their haunting screams and silent cries, you realize the abuse needs to stop. NO MATTER WHAT, we need to be the voice for those who cannot speak. Abuse doesn't choose its victims and it doesn't discriminate,we need to stand up and speak for those who without a choice. Whether it's a child or animal, it may just take an outsider to see through the dangerous cycle./Working together we can make a difference. I want to show those few people who turn their heads and look the other way, that the problem will still be there when they turn back around. It won't disappear. Animals and children have feelings too! Would YOU like it if someone performed painful and/or deadly experiments on you or abused you so bad you just didn't know what to do? Would YOU like it if someone just stood by, and watched as you were being tortured or killed, and didn't care enough to speak up for your defense let alone listen to your cries for help? Whether it's an animal or even another human sometimes you just gotta break the rules and do what you think is right, even when others disagree with you. Your actions may help prevent another death. SPEAK UP for those who can't or for those without a voice ! This is going to sound coldhearted but if I had my way when it came down to ANY form of abuse EVERY victim would be able to inflict the exact same pain upon their abusers and make them suffer in silence the same agony and pain that they went through. Now if you allow it, participate in, watch, abuse,torture,kill an animal then you'd also be charged/convicted as tho he/she was a human. Afterall that innocent animal you kill, most likely is someone's family member.Domestic or wild,it doesn't matter.

11:48 am PST, Dec 30, VICTORIA MARY STONG / X FRIEND OF BAILEYS!!, New York
STOP ABUSING AND NEGLECTING ALL YOUR ANIMALS!

3:00 am PST, Dec 22, Laura Rodrigues, Portugal

2:53 pm PST, Dec 21, Julija Petrovic, Serbia And Montenegro

3:44 am PST, Dec 15, Name not displayed, Tennessee
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whipcracking trainer is primitive and medieval.

7:08 am PST, Dec 14, CESAR LOPEZ, Spain

3:54 am PST, Dec 12, Connie Conaway, Pennsylvania

9:14 pm PST, Dec 11, Jacqueline Rush, Pennsylvania