Shut down Mclaren Circus, South Africa

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#1201

We tried to close them down before, this man is arogant and uncaring of the blatant abuse of these wild animals.

(Littlehampton, 2019-11-18)

#1202

This is animal abuse!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1204

This is a terrible way to treat our wildlife.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1206

Circuses are horrible mistreatment of beautiful animals. I have no problem with people in circuses but at least that is their choice to perform

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1208

This is disgusting. These animals should be sent to a cat rehab centre to live out their lives.

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1210

This is so wrong. These poor animals aren't entertainment they should be in the wild or rehabilitation park.

(Gauteng, 2019-11-18)

#1212

Animals should never be used for entertainment or food.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1215

The abuse & cruelty is unecceptable for those that were born to roam free.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1222

No animal deserve this kind of life. Tjey are wild animals and need to live they way nature intended. The way they are kept to entertain people and a money making scheme is cruel. We are their voices.

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1223

The use of animals in a circus is completely inhuman and disgusting. Animals are not means for entertainment and are not objects that can be ordered to do silly tricks.

(Dubai, 2019-11-18)

#1228

I'm signing because the McLaren circus has been abusing animals of all types for the petty amusement of needle-brained people who don't know better or just like the owners of McLaren's circus, are absolute degenerates who deserve to wrot in a hole.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1229

Animals must not be trained for people's entertainment. It is cruel unethical and immoral
They must be banned
No matter how hard these circus owners and trainers argue the point there is no way wild animals can he trained without cruelty

(Sunward Park, 2019-11-18)

#1230

Animal abuse is a NO.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1232

Animals are not supposed to perform.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1233

Wild animals do not belong in cages and should not be transported in cages. They should be kept at rescue centre's that have suitable enclosures and where they will be cared for properly

(DURBAN, 2019-11-18)

#1235

Animals belong in the wild not entertaining humans

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1238

I don’t agree with using animals as show tools and mistreating them

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1242

McLaren's Circus represents animal abuse and cruelty. Their circus needs to shut down completely and the animals relocated to a suitable sanctuary.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1243

Using animals for entertainment is inhumane!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1244

Given the choice, no animal would choose to live an unnatural life of captivity, regardless of the kindness of the treatment and no animal would choose a life that allows none of their natural behaviour. Certainly animals would not choose to be taken from their families to be obliged to amuse us.
Circus animals spend months travelling in small, bare cages. The stress of continued confinement as well as the transportation result in long term suffering and a lack of appropriate social interaction, reduction in time spent foraging and the restricted freedom to perform natural behaviours represent stressors for captive animals.
A natural environments cannot be recreated in a circuses due to the traveling, with inadequate acommodation and exercise areas and forced movement, handling by humans,, noise along with the confinement results in both short-term as well as long-term behavioural and psychological effects.
Drakenstein Lion Park has this to say:
A circus cannot offer an animal like a lion or tiger even the most basic environmental conditions to allow any form of natural behavior. Even though captive bred, circus big cats still require the space and habitat to engage in limited natural behavior. A circus trailer and small exercise cage do not and cannot meet even these most basic needs, there is no space for these animals to even build up to a full speed run, climb or claw at a tree or even get away from each other!
Added to this is the additional stress of being housed in unnatural social groupings in close proximity to other species of big cats. Lions and tigers should not co-habit in the same space and it would be completely unethical if these to species were allowed to cross breed. The sexes of the big cats housed probably add to stress levels as the males would be in constant competition to be dominant and mate (unless of course the females have been surgically sterilized). Circus animals have to perform under unnatural conditions in cramped spaces in a noisy environment. Anyone with a dog will know the effects fireworks have on their pets once a year at Guy Fawkes, circus animals are exposed to amplified music and sound effects every show!
There is much debate about circus training methods and claims that only ‘positive reinforcement’ is used. It stands to reason however that a degree of dominance is involved in training an apex predator who would under normal circumstance not hesitate to attack a human in confined quarters, one has to question how this type of dominance is achieved over a 250 kilogram predator?
The reality is that any fixed based exhibit (e.g.. a zoo) would not be allowed to keep animals like lions and tigers in such confined quarters, yet for some reason the law allows circuses to do so. You get to go home after the show, the animals go to a cage!
Smiling chimpanzees in adverts are not smiling, it is a fear grin. That is how they express fear. It has been well documented that Chimpanzees only perform under duress, hence the ‘surprising’ sudden attacks by these ‘tame and loving animals’ who turn on trainers or actors. Lions and other wild animals do not belong in circuses. Elephants, particularly, suffer terribly from emotional distress and joint and feet pain from spending hours and hours chained and left standing on hard ground instead of traveling many kilometres every day in the wild.
Large cats spend most of their lives in cages that would never be considered acceptable in a zoo. These animals can provide no educational value despite the arguments to the contrary; what can you possibly learn from an animal in a cage or a circus ring? With documentaries and the plethora of visual information available today a child can learn far more than by seeing a sad replica of what should be a magnificent proud animal in their own habitat.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1255

I love animals and i hate the way they get abused in any circus of form of entertainment for people that is not the lives they deserve
They deserve much better and to be free

(Secunda, 2019-11-18)

#1258

Because it’s time to let the animals go. These circuses can’t be allowed to keep wild animals. In 2019 and the future to come, entertainment CAN change and evolve without keeping wild animals captive and abusing them for cheap entertainment.

(Krugerdorp, 2019-11-18)

#1259

Animals don't belong in the circus

(Alberton, 2019-11-18)

#1260

Animals are not made to perform!!! They belong in the wild!!!

(Benoni, 2019-11-18)

#1262

This is animal abuse

(Bloemfontein, 2019-11-18)

#1264

I don't believe it is necessary to continue with this Barbaric Act of using Animals as entertainment.
Bann ALL Circuses that use Animals

(BENONI, 2019-11-18)

#1268

I’m signing this petition because it is DISGUSTING how a person who might say that they have empathy or even a heart can hold animals they way these people are. Animals deserve to be free and run wild. Not caged and kept for mundane entertainment....

(Benoni, 2019-11-18)

#1270

The circus is a cruel medieval tradition!! Mclaren circus is an absolute disgrace!!

(Springs, 2019-11-18)

#1272

Animals should not be used like this they are not props, they are living and breathing animals and deserve to be in the wild where they belong.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1275

Animals are not entertainment! Enough is enough!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1279

This is not entertainment but cruel to the animals.

(Gauteng, 2019-11-18)

#1282

I am against animal cruelty and the use of animals in circuses

(Nelspruit, 2019-11-18)

#1283

This is animal cruelty. Animals belong in the wild not in cages or on stage!

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1284

I find the practice of using animals to do tricks for entertainment and made to live in cages is unbelievably disgusting.

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1286

Animals are not to be exploited for any form of gain!!!!!

(Bryanston, 2019-11-18)

#1287

I'm signing this petition as I feel very strongly about animals being used in a circus as they are ill-treated because the animals are meant to be free in the wild and not kept in cages and abused!

(Centurion, 2019-11-18)

#1288

Wild animals belong in the wild. A circus is an accident waiting to happen.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1289

Using animals in circuses is barbaric.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1290

Animal abuse for entertainment value must stop

(Otjiwarongo, 2019-11-18)

#1296

Wild animals are not here to be abused and to entertain people.

(Randburg, 2019-11-18)

#1299

Animals don’t belong in circuses!
Animals are not our entertainment!

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1301

Having animals in a circus is cruel and archaic. Wild animals belong in the wild!

(Durban, 2019-11-18)

#1302

No animal from the wild should be in a cage and taught to perform tricks. They belong in the wild!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1304

Animals aren't puppets!

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1305

I'm signing because having these beautiful souls in cages and having to perform, is barbaric.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1308

Circuses are terrible and abuse animals

(Benoni, 2019-11-18)

#1309

These animals deserve respect not to be treated with cruelty in performing unnatural acts and kept in horrid conditions!

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1312

I'm signing because animals should be free and not treated so poorly! It's just awful!

(Dunleer, 2019-11-18)

#1313

The conditions the animals are in is unethical. No animal should live like that just for people's entertainment.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1316

Against animal cruelty

(Boksburg, 2019-11-18)

#1318

I hate animal cruelty and this is disgusting

(JOHANNESBURG, 2019-11-18)

#1324

These animals should not be used as entertainment and these animals deserve to have a better life!

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1325

This cruelty must end

(cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1326

I'm signing because I feel like its animal cruelty.

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1329

This is animal abuse!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1331

No animals should be used for monetary gain and they should not be made to perform tricks. It's cruel and archaic that's why they are banned else where in the world and puts humans to shame.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1333

Animals should not be part of circuses

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1335

Animals should be in their natural habitat and not for our entertainment

(Springs, 2019-11-18)

#1341

Thus is a cruel practice

(Triangle, 2019-11-18)

#1344

I'm signing because I have personally viewed what happens to these animals and I will no longer support this business

(Hartbeespoort, 2019-11-18)

#1346

Animals are not for entertainment!

(Johanessburg, 2019-11-18)

#1348

Animals needs to be free !!!! A cage is not a home !!!! Love is not Less Food

(Gauteng, 2019-11-18)

#1350

I am in my 40s. Never been to a circus and this is the reason why I will never gi to one.

(Pretoria, 2019-11-18)

#1351

The animals must be in the wild

(Wellington, 2019-11-18)

#1352

I dont condone cruelty to animals.

(Hartbeespoort, 2019-11-18)

#1357

There is not a single reason why animals should be caged, starved, used for human entertainment or trained in any way. They are wild. They should be free.

(Durban, 2019-11-18)

#1359

The conditions that wild animals are kept in are inhumane.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1364

This is animal abuse !

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1365

Animal abuse

(Durban, 2019-11-18)

#1366

This is just plain wrong!!!!

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1369

I'm signing this because animals should not be treated that way. It's disgusting and shouldn't be done!

(Benoni, 2019-11-18)

#1371

Animal cruelty

(Port Elizabeth, 2019-11-18)

#1372

Say no to animals in circuses

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1375

Animals in circuses are cruel. Should be banned!

(Swellendam, 2019-11-18)

#1376

Animals belong in the wild and are not made for entertainment.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-18)

#1378

I'm signing because I have seen the sad life these animals have.

(Pretoria, 2019-11-18)

#1379

This is appalling abuse of animals!!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-18)

#1383

Animals deserve to live in freedom and in the wild
Not in cages getting beaten and hurt everyday!!!!!

(Pretoria, 2019-11-18)

#1384

It's animal abuse, these animals get stressed, because of this, wild animals are not for intertainment. These animals are wild and belong in the wild where they belong.
This circus and and all other circuses needs to be shut down for good and for ever and needs to be banned

(Cape town, 2019-11-18)

#1388

This is animal abuse and torture

(Durban, 2019-11-18)

#1393

They need to be free

(Kempton park, 2019-11-18)

#1399

Circuses using performing animals are plain cruel!

(Jhb, 2019-11-18)