Maltreatment of performing animals
Name(s):
Maltreatment of circus animals
Maltreatment of rodeo animals
Nature
Cruelty to performing and circus animals includes over-discipline involving excessive beatings and withholding of food, excessive hours of training, cramped quarters (often small cages on trailers), and extermination when biologically fit but ageing. Transportation between locations subjects the animals to extreme changes in temperature and disruption of natural cycles, causing considerable stress.
Claim
Learning of tricks goes against an animal's natural instincts, especially when taught under demeaning conditions. During any performance animals may be subject to ridicule and contempt in order to conform to the public's stereotype of them.
Counter-claim
By experience and training circus animals become accustomed with many things other animals, inexperienced in circus, would find distressing.
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Type
(E) Emanations of other problems