Shut down Mclaren Circus, South Africa

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#3002

I can't believe this is still allowed!

(Cambodia, 2019-11-20)

#3015

Animals don't belong in cages... They deserve to be in their natural habitat... They will ve very stressed in cages and who gives us the right to take them from their habitat. THEY ARE WILD ... NOT DOMESTICATED ANIMALS

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3020

I love animals and I believe this is cruelty

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3021

Circuses are antiquated and cruel

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3023

ALL animals must be removed from the circus!!!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3028

I'm against animals being exploited to create monetary gain!

(Cape town, 2019-11-20)

#3038

I am so against any type of animal circus. Animals were not born for our amusement in a circus. They are wild animals or even farm animals and belong in their natural habitat.

(Benoni, 2019-11-20)

#3039

The senseless abuse and extortion of these animals is a crime and they shouldn't be allowed to carry on!

(Boksburg, 2019-11-20)

#3041

I don't believe in using animals in any form of entertainment

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3042

Cruelty to animals is despicable and must be stopped with immediate effect.

(Durban, 2019-11-20)

#3044

I am totally against Circus’s, I can’t believe they still exist!!!

(Hoedspruit, 2019-11-20)

#3045

These animals should be in the wild , please people stop this abuse

(Mpumalanga, 2019-11-20)

#3047

As an expat from Cape Town, I find it disgusting that South Africa still allows circuses to do acts with animals.

(Auckland, 2019-11-20)

#3048

I'm against caging wild animals

(Krugersdorp, 2019-11-20)

#3051

Using animals in any form of entertainment outside their natural ability or hindering their quality of life is abuse. Run your circus without the use of animals.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3052

Wild and majestic animals do not belong in cages, or should not be balancing on balls and jumping through hoops. The get poked and whiped and beaten and neglected for mans enjoyment. The audience does not see when the curtain closes, they only see "fat animals, so they must be taken care off", but what they dont see is the physical and mental abuse taken place. Shut down circusses that use animals.

(Cape town, 2019-11-20)

#3053

It is wrong

(Redcar, 2019-11-20)

#3054

They are abusing the animals. They are being hold hostage. No animals should go through this. Its disgusting

(Capetown, 2019-11-20)

#3056

I'm signing because having animals in the circus is so cruel. Those animals deserve to be animals not people's entertainment. And the way they are forced to perform and spend theirs days traveling on the road is so cruel. No animal should ever live their lives the way circus animals do.

(Gauteng, 2019-11-20)

#3060

It is animal cruelty. I get a guys got to make a buck here and there but not by the sake of animals well being

(Benoni, 2019-11-20)

#3061

Cruelty to innocent animals !!!!! 🤬😡😡😡😡

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3067

I don't believe circuses should include animal acts. It's cruel and inhumane. If people want to participate in circus performances out of their own free will, that's their choice. DO NOT FORCE MAJESTIC MAGNIFICENT WILD ANIMALS TO PERFORM CRUEL AND HUMILIATING STUPID TRICKS!!!😡😡 THIS IS MIND BLOWING CRUELTY

(Edenvale, 2019-11-20)

#3070

Animals do not belong in a circus !

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3073

This abusive practice has got to stop. What are these humans thinking? This is no reason to capture animals and remove them from their natural habitat, and furthermore subject them to learning "tricks" for human entertainment. This is simply extremely cruel and absurd.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3074

It’s 2019, we have more than enough evidence to show that animals share the same basic emotions as humans. We are no different, we feel love, we feel fear, we feel pain, and sadness. These animals should be entitled to the share the same rights as humans, they should not be subjected to torturous conditions for the entertainment of humans. It’s despicable, and circuses like these only serve to cheapen South Africa’s reputation, there is literally zero value added by letting this circus continue to exploit animals!

(Tianjin, 2019-11-20)

#3075

I am against animal cruelty and despise the treatment these animals receive by their owners.

(Edenvale, 2019-11-20)

#3082

Wild animals or ant Animas ls should not be used for making money. Wild animals should be free and not caged. It's cruelty

(Ballito, 2019-11-20)

#3085

I’m against animal cruelty

(Durban, 2019-11-20)

#3087

They are keeping on doing the same thing over and over and just dont care

(Boksburh, 2019-11-20)

#3090

It is almost animal creulty, Animals like these belong in the wild, free them, they should not live in cages and be tortured,

(Mosselbay, 2019-11-20)

#3091

It's animal Cruelty!

(Benoni, 2019-11-20)

#3092

I feel strongly against the use of such exotic and beautiful animals in such a cruel and repetitive way for entertainment as they are wild animals enough said...

(Capetown, 2019-11-20)

#3095

Animals deserve to be protected. We need to be their voices.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3098

I’m signing because this is abusive towards animals

(Hiroshima, 2019-11-20)

#3099

Animals deserve the best. They deserve to live a free life.

(Dublin, 2019-11-20)

#3100

I am for animals. The humans that abuse wild animals in the name of entertainment deserve punishment

(Edenvale, 2019-11-20)

#3104

End this cruelty!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3105

I'm signing this because these animals belong in the wild and not in an enclosed and confined space

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3107

It’s cruel

(Sydney, 2019-11-20)

#3110

Circus is animal abuse ! The only reason the spca cant shut them down is because they are literally doing the BARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS for the spca to not be able to close them down ! Its quite disgusting that the rights for animals are basically NON EXISTENT in South Africa

(Gauteng, 2019-11-20)

#3111

I HATE the abuse of animals! And it's even worse that it is for entertainment purposes. It is sick and disgusting. A circus can exist without any animals involved!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3112

The abuse of animals in any form is unacceptable and should not be legal. Circuses are one of the many ways in which humans are allowed to treat innocent animals as merely money making machines and torture them to perform tricks etc and not allowing them the freedom to live the way In which they should.

(Benoni, 2019-11-20)

#3115

Stop the animal abuse, animals deserve to be free not in a circus - I'll put you on a circus and see how you like it!!!

(Edinburgh, 2019-11-20)

#3117

I don't want animals to have to live in small cages and get transportated around the country in these cages. It would be cool if they could live a natural life.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3118

This is horrible bussiness. These are wild animals and should not be there for people s entertainment

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3119

This is a disgusting and inhumane practice. Wild animals are not there for our entertainment.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3120

Animals deserve to be free!!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3122

I hate Circuses and the way they use wild animals for human entertainment!! Stop it now!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3123

I’m signing because there are many successful circuses all over the world that DO NOT USE ANY ANIMALS in their shows. People should not be encouraged to need to see animals as entertainment. Domestic animals should be pets for companionship or working animals bonded with humans that need them and who share a mutual bond in caring for one another.

(Pretoria, 2019-11-20)

#3129

I can't stand seeing the animals have to perform. I took my daughter to the circus when she was 6. We were there for barely 20min and she said she wanted to leave. She could barely watch the animals. We saw them beforehand as well and most did not look so good. There was no water in their cages either. I will never go to a circus again until they remove all the animals!!

(Paarl, 2019-11-20)

#3130

It is utterly cruel!!! Those animals belong in their wide open natural habitat!!!!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3132

Keeping animals in captivity and training them to do unnatural acts is cruel and demeaning and must be stopped.

(Pretoria, 2019-11-20)

#3133

Animals don’t deserve to be treated this way. Let them be free

(Sandton, 2019-11-20)

#3134

The abuse of animals should not be used as entertainment. It should be shut down and these animals should be put into a recovery home and be able to live in their natural habitat. freely

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3135

animals should not be used for our entertainment this is cruel

(liverpool, 2019-11-20)

#3142

It’s sick of us humans who stand by and accept this kind of behavior.

(Durban, 2019-11-20)

#3143

Animal cruelty

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3144

Animals don't deserve this and they don't have a voice to speak up for themselves.

(Somerset West, 2019-11-20)

#3145

The animals should enjoy freedom...even if it has to be in a zoo or sanctuary! They are as "human" as us....and deserves to be treated as such!

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3147

Close down all circuses that use animals as amusement they deserve freedom

(Sasolburg, 2019-11-20)

#3152

There should no longer be any circuses with animals performing. It's an incredibly cruel practice.

(Great Missenden, 2019-11-20)

#3153

Animals deserve to be free and not treated like prisoners

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3154

It is atrocious that this can still happen! Set the animals free! Let them live in the wild, walk on grass, where they should be - not in cages for human amusement!!!! Shameful!!!!!

(London, 2019-11-20)

#3155

1. LEGAL does not mean ethical. You all KNOW that. (Must I really remind you?)
2. Animals are not here as entertainment
3. You get to go home after the show. They go to a cage
4. They cannot live a normal life, they are deprived of everything they should be able to do and everything they are
5. Animal circuses serve NO EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE - it is a business
6. So they have shelter and food. I am sure pimps say the same thing about the people they force to earn for them
7. There are plenty of other entertainment options.
8. Little Johnny / Themba / Sarie are allowed to hear the word NO. They will learn about lions on TV, in books and from YouTube documentaries. A day after they have seen them, it will all be forgotten
9. An hours entertainment means a lifetime of enslavement

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3159

They should be free like we are

(Gauteng, 2019-11-20)

#3161

I am against Animal cruelty

(Alberton, 2019-11-20)

#3162

Animal cruelty is disgusting.

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3163

Just so cruel.

(Somerset west, 2019-11-20)

#3165

This specitcal should be abolished

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3166

Let clowns and people do this. Not animals. It's barbaric and idiotic to entertain people at the expense of animals. They did not chose to be doing this. People can choose. Animals cannot.

(Plettenberg Bay, 2019-11-20)

#3171

It’s cruel and must be stopped

(Cape Town, 2019-11-20)

#3173

This is animal abuse!!!

(Gauteng, 2019-11-20)

#3174

Animals need freedom.

(Viljoenskroon, 2019-11-20)

#3176

Animal cruelty disused as entertainment! No animal should be used to entertain humans. Do not support a circus using animal acts. They need to be shut down and the animals must be send to a wildlife sanctuary where they can live a happy life for their remaining years!

(De Wildt, 2019-11-20)

#3178

I am completely against all forms of animal cruelty.
Circus with performing animals should be prosecuted for these crimes

(Hillcrest, 2019-11-20)

#3180

Animals should be walking around freely in their own habitat. Not being bullied and tortured by humans to perform

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3185

Its torture for the animals!!! Shut it down immediately!!

(Pretoria, 2019-11-20)

#3186

Animals are not here for our entertainment. They need to be respected & loved

(Krugersdorp, 2019-11-20)

#3187

I think it is disgraceful that they think that they are better than every other circus who dont believe in exploiting animals. Shame on them!!

(Edenvale, 2019-11-20)

#3189

I stand up for animal abuse

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3190

Sick and tired of circuses that exploit animals for money!!! What kind of life is that!!!

(Bedfordview, 2019-11-20)

#3192

Please STOP using animals for out amusement and making money out of it! Animals don’t belong in a Zoo!

(Port Elizabeth, 2019-11-20)

#3194

I believe that these animals should absolutely NOT be held in captivity and FORCED to do things that they shouldn’t be doing.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-20)

#3196

Exploitation of animals and humans is wrong on every level and wild animals do not belong in circuses nor zoos!

(Edenvale, 2019-11-20)

#3200

No matter how "ethical" a circus claims to be, abuse is abuse!

Animals are not entertainment!!!!

(Benoni, 2019-11-20)