"The Greatest Show on Earth" is ending

[sdp]

Circus attendance had been decreasing for over a decade, I'm sure the animal ban didn't help but they were going to close sooner rather than later. Today's kids are just not interested anymore, it's a relic of the past.

It is a bit sad to see Circuses go but their time is in the past, were all animals mistreated? Of course not but a big enough majority were for it to be a concern a problem.

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Please no. Blackfish woefully exaggerates the how "bad" the conditions the animals are kept in are. Most REPUTABLE sealife parks (Seaworld and the like) actually take very good care of them. Orcas and dolphins in them live as long or longer than in the wild, and have plenty of room to live in. Its the ones like the park in Mexico (that the orca from Free Willy was in) that give them a bad rep. The media loves to spin things for scandal and outrage, so of course that is the stuff people hear about. But if you've ever been to one, it is pretty obvious they are well cared for and happy.

Blackfish did exaggerate but not as much as you make it out to be, if you think these animals actually live a happy life then you need to actually check out the places and Seaworld only changed a lot of what it was doing after the documentary which the CEO said was nothing and resigned because of it months later. You don't even know the story about "the ones like in the park in Mexico" so why speak out because you read some article about it. THe animals are not happier than they would in the wild and to dismiss that because you like is just cruel.

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

All this REALLY means is that people who have spent their entire LIVES in this type of work/lifestyle(because that is what it ultimately is) and animals who have never known anything else will all be out of home and jobs. The animals will have to have homes found for them, which is often nearly impossible and can often result in them ultimately being put down because there is no place for them to go. Is THIS what people want??!!

You do have a point here and it's a bit sad, many can't really return to the wild or their owners don't want them to so they get rid of them instead but that doesn't mean they necessarily having better lives performing. In general those animals were doomed to suffer the time they were taken from their habitat and yes it's what people want even if we should have something better for them after they stop the performancies at least those animals will be the last to endure that, if you continue it you just continue the cycle.

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Probably, depending on the source organization that forced the closing.
Peta kills a whole lot of animals in the name of ethical treatment.

I'm not a fan of PETA's methods but that whole "PETA sacrifices more animals than ____" is a BS statistic spinned to argue that PETA is terrible.