article_snippet: Sadly, performing animals in circuses and traveling shows are too often subjected to inhumane conditions, especially in their training.
article_snippet: Reward-based training takes time and patience, which are things that many circus trainers do not have.
article_snippet: Instead, many circus trainers frequently resort to other inhumane means, involving beating the animals, using electrical prods, depriving the animals of food, chaining the animals and other brutal methods to force the animals into submission.
article_snippet: Following this sort of brutal training, the animals may appear tame, but the animals are still wild and the animals original wild instincts will appear if provoked.
article_snippet: Meanwhile, animals that are no longer useful to the circus or traveling shows due to age or temperament may be given away or sold to other less reputable organizations.
article_snippet: animals that are no longer useful to the circus or traveling shows due to age or temperament lack proper veterinary care, and what little quality of life animals that are no longer useful to the circus or traveling shows due to age or temperament did have is diminished further.
article_snippet: We are told that circuses and traveling shows are about education.
article_snippet: But what could one possibly learn about animals from watching these shows?
article_snippet: Observing wild animals perform unnatural tricks while dancing in tutus only teaches the public that the sole purpose of animals is our entertainment.
article_snippet: With this step, we look forward to the day that it, and other circuses, phase out all wild animals, including the lions and tigers that also are featured in their shows.
article_snippet: After all, wild and exotic animals are not meant to entertain us.