The Circus

Yesterday I went to the circus with my mom to have a look at how the animals here in France were treated. We heard they treated the animals really badly and wanted to see for ourselves, so we could know what we were talking about if or when we repeated it to other people (We took our camera so I can show you some pictures and clips). Here's my review on the day:
The circus was as bad as I expected, especially with how they treated the lions. Throughout the whole show you could hear the lions and the tigers crying and moaning over the loud music playing in the circus tent. The ring master was whipping the lions (and other animals) while they preformed, and I felt really sad seeing the lions give each other a comforting nudge every time they passed each other. The ring master was pretending he as in charge of the lions (my mom gave the example of a owner saying sit after their dog sat) and towards the end of the lions' art of the show the lion who just had a newly born cub started getting really angry with the ring master. She looked like she wanted to rip his head off... But the part of that day that made everything ten times worse was that my dog cried while we re-watched the tape of the lions :
The other bad part of the day was how the crowd acted. As you probably guessed, the whole crowd was parents and grandparents with their kids but it was how the parents acted that made no sense. First of all they let their little children sit in the front row where they can't run away fast enough if anything unexpected happens (which did happen, more in a minute). Then it was the way they kept clapping and cheering and laughing as if they had never set foot outside their doorstep or seen anything remotely funny in their lives. Then it was how they let their children touch the horses and camels who would have probably bitten them or spat on them if it wasn't for the whip the ring master had. Then they didn't even move back when the Yak came into the ring with their huge horns that could have badly hurt any of the children if they had lowered their heads. And finally near the ending of the show, one of the medium sized yaks went crazy, and crashed into the metal railings that were used when the lions were preforming and a lady, about 10 meters away from the yak, didn't even pick up or move her baby to protect it, as if she stupidly thought nothing could harm her baby, and most of the rest of the crowed pretended nothing was happening at all.
The funniest part was when they had a five minute break where they sold flashing lights and let you take a picture with the newly born lion cub (the cub's mom was crying). A lady was walking past me and my mom and (it was one of those times when everyone's looking at someone) and her two year old child pushed the crêpe (pancake) she was holding. At first he yelled at the kid (which drew more attention to her) then she picks up the crêpe which was lying flat on the Car park floor, she put it back on her plate (without even looking to see whether anyone saw her) then she goes to sit down and starts feeding it to her little boy and herself. Those crêpes must of cost her a fortune for her to do that. Here's a short list of what she and her son ate that evening: Animal poo and pee, Hobo pee, cigarette ash, vomit, dust from the ring (it went everywhere), grime, dirt, gravel, etc. etc.





Here are some pictures of the camels that I find really sad:

Tags: Circus, Lions, Animal Cruelty, France, French Circuses, French Circuses Still Use Animals, Horrible Mother Feeds 2yr.old crêpe dropped on disgusting parking lot floor, Yak Runs Amok At Cirque Muller