Comments on: Going Over the Top http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/ News, Entertainment & Points of View Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:54:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Howler's Mom http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Howler's Mom Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:24:38 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-443 Dude, yes, I mean Dude. Why can't you see that these animals suffer being performers? They don't complain, because they will get beat. They don't rebel or they'll get killed. In these evolving times, why can't circuses change and try to protect instead of exploit these creatures? I will NEVER go to a circus. Even if paid to do so. I love seeing animals in their own habitat and if we destroy that, we destroy ourselves. This is not a good way to keep endangered animals. Please keep animals in a kinder place. If you want performance, go see a car race. If you want entertainment, go to Las Vegas. If you want cruelty, go to the circus. Dude, yes, I mean Dude. Why can’t you see that these animals suffer being performers? They don’t complain, because they will get beat. They don’t rebel or they’ll get killed. In these evolving times, why can’t circuses change and try to protect instead of exploit these creatures? I will NEVER go to a circus. Even if paid to do so. I love seeing animals in their own habitat and if we destroy that, we destroy ourselves. This is not a good way to keep endangered animals. Please keep animals in a kinder place. If you want performance, go see a car race. If you want entertainment, go to Las Vegas. If you want cruelty, go to the circus.

]]> By: Elephant Kindness http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Elephant Kindness Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:22:55 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-442 PLEASE go to SALON.com and search and read “The Greatest Vendetta on Earth” Now that is REAL investigative reporting not this fluff. Doing actual research can be very beneficial to FAIR REPORTING. Also why not dig up some former employee testimony? http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/69908 PLEASE
go to SALON.com and search and read “The Greatest Vendetta on Earth” Now that is REAL investigative reporting not this fluff.

Doing actual research can be very beneficial to FAIR REPORTING.

Also why not dig up some former employee testimony?

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/69908

]]> By: Billye http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Billye Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:54:49 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-441 Lord! Don't you know that circuses are cruel??? Geeze I thought everybody knew that now days!!! They use endangered animals and treat them like they're some kind of play toy or something. Jesus Christ man!! Wake up and smell the coffee!! Open your eyes and really LOOK at what you're seeing! Boycott circuses that use animals and attend circuses that don't! Such as Cirque Du Solei. Now those Cirque Du Solei people REALLY know how to entertain!!! Lord! Don’t you know that circuses are cruel??? Geeze I thought everybody knew that now days!!! They use endangered animals and treat them like they’re some kind of play toy or something. Jesus Christ man!! Wake up and smell the coffee!! Open your eyes and really LOOK at what you’re seeing! Boycott circuses that use animals and attend circuses that don’t! Such as Cirque Du Solei. Now those Cirque Du Solei people REALLY know how to entertain!!!

]]> By: Cher http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Cher Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:29:50 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-440 You really need to check your facts before reporting on Ringling Brothers..they are the worst circus act out there when it comes to mistreating their animals, they beat their elephants with bullhooks to train them into doing those "cute little tricks" and they are not trained, they are scared and submissive..people wonder why there are animal attacks on circus trainers and zoo workers and customers, that is because these are wild animals and they were never meant to be our amusement in cages or on a stage... You really need to check your facts before reporting on Ringling Brothers..they are the worst circus act out there when it comes to mistreating their animals, they beat their elephants with bullhooks to train them into doing those “cute little tricks” and they are not trained, they are scared and submissive..people wonder why there are animal attacks on circus trainers and zoo workers and customers, that is because these are wild animals and they were never meant to be our amusement in cages or on a stage…

]]> By: Annie http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Annie Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:10:39 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-439 Please do some research before you promote such horror, Ringling Abuses Animals and no person with conscience can patronize such cruelty......... At least 25 Ringling elephants have died since 1992! http://www.animalrightsflorida.org/Ringling.htm Please do some research before you promote such horror, Ringling Abuses Animals and no person with conscience can patronize such cruelty………

At least 25 Ringling elephants have died since 1992!

http://www.animalrightsflorida.org/Ringling.htm

]]> By: Elephant Kindness http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Elephant Kindness Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:05:56 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-436 this document contains actual USDA investigations, this is a court document, PLEASE do some research! Look at the USDA's findings.: http://news.eyewitnessnews8.com/i-team/circus-federallawsuitagainst.pdf Channel 2 news video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CKxNpnP5pM PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES! this document contains actual USDA investigations, this is a court document, PLEASE do some research! Look at the USDA’s findings.:

http://news.eyewitnessnews8.com/i-team/circus-federallawsuitagainst.pdf

Channel 2 news video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CKxNpnP5pM

PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES!

]]> By: TM http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-437 TM Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:37:40 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-437 Ringling beats animals. Seeing is believing: www.circuses.com for more information. Ringling beats animals. Seeing is believing: http://www.circuses.com for more information.

]]> By: CMoore http://www.bhamweekly.com/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-438 CMoore Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:58:58 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/01/25/going-over-the-top/#comment-438 One thing that hasn't changed is the cruel way Ringling trains the wild animals for the acts. Until they drop all Wild Animal Acts, I will not be attending a Ringling Circus. One thing that hasn’t changed is the cruel way Ringling trains the wild animals for the acts. Until they drop all Wild Animal Acts, I will not be attending a Ringling Circus.

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