Day at the circus

Trainers use bullhooks, whips, sticks, circus animal cruelty electric prods, and other tools that intentionally cause pain and injury in order to force animals to perform. Undercover footage of behind-the-scenes training shows elephants beaten with bullhooks and shocked with electric prods, big cats dragged by heavy chains around their neck and hit with sticks, bears whacked and prodded with long poles, and chimpanzees kicked and hit with riding crops. Trainers have to break their spirit; they have to tear the animal down psychologically before the trainers can actually teach them “tricks.” This type of training is usually done when the circus animal cruelty elephant is just a baby. However, there are instances where grown elephants are taken from the wild and “broken.” This is done by restraining the elephant with short chains to a small area as someone repeatedly beats the animal with a bullhook.

Trainers’ mobile homes are parked immediately adjacent to their performing animals’ housing in each tour venue. Trainers teach animals routines that showcase their physical abilities and beauty, as well as their distinctive behaviors. Our training methods are based on reinforcement in the form of food rewards circus animal cruelty and words of praise.Elephants and the other animals that are used in circuses, are beautiful and intelligent creatures. They should be in the wild of their own country, not parading around a ring and being forced to perform stupid tricks. Elephants don’t understand why they are made to perform silly, physically painful tricks over and over again, day in and day out. So Ringling beats them until they comply.