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**Pro 'Animal Circus' links** Posted: 12/14/2011 11:39:35 AM

https://www.facebook.com/group/223570581049199/

Here you will find evidence that the training of Performing Animals is all done by positive reinforcement and food.

You will also find evidence that travelling doesn't cause stress to the animals.

You will see the spacious outdoor enclosures where the animals spend most of their days.

And there are some excellent, mind opening submissions available to read if you follow the link to Astley's Legacy.

You can see for yourself the high standards of Animal Welfare within the Circus community. The Circus community will welcome the decision to bring in regulations with open arms. Bringing in these regulations will ensure these standards are strictly adhered to, ensuring that the already high standards of care, including training and the mental wellbeing of the animals, will carry on well into the future.

The aim of this page is for you to see what the animal rights people don't want you to see.

The RSPCA bases much of it's ideology around the belief that all animals have the right to the "FIVE FREEDOMS". THE CIRCUS INDUSTRY AGREES.

1. Freedom from hunger and thirst.
2. Freedom from discomfort and pain.
3. Freedom from injury and disease.
4. Freedom to express normal behaviour.
5. Freedom from fear and distress.

Despite the propaganda spread by the RSPCA and other anti-Circus activists, modern day Circus' are very passionate about Animal Welfare and that all animals should enjoy a great quality of life.

There is also an extremely strong body of scientific evidence that supports the high standards of Welfare in Animal Circus'.
More people need to know the truth about the Welfare of Circus Animals. Once they have seen this proof I'm sure they will be amazed at the appalling manner that the Circus Industry has been subjected to, through lies and discrimination.

Please do not ask to join this group, it is here purely for educational purposes. Thank you.

**Re: Pro 'Animal Circus' links** Posted: 12/14/2011 11:43:36 AM

Astley's Legacy -
Animal Circus Facts and Fiction

http://circusthetruth.blogspot.com/
Astley's Legacy was formed to counteract the misinformation spread by the animal rights agenda but in addition to fighting the corner for circus animals I think there is also a further need to promote and celebrate the circus in general, especially in Great Britain. For more information please see our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/223570581049199/

**Re: Pro 'Animal Circus' links** Posted: 12/14/2011 11:48:29 AM

Astley's circus video channel on youtube ...
http://www.youtube.com/user/Astley1768
Circus The Truth

For too long, the circus community have been denied a voice in responding to concerns about the keeping of animals in circuses. Newspapers, radio, TV, political journals - whatever medium covers the issue, the tale is told from the viewpoint of the Animal Rights groups. Over and again, circus people talk at length to journalists about these issues, and answer their questions openly and honestly, only to find that an ensuing article or programme quotes them only briefly - if at all! That may sell papers and gain listeners, but it doesn't tell the truth.

In recent times there have been three notable individual incidents involving circus people. Factors in all three cases raise a suspicion that film footage was artificially 'set up'. All three cases are as hugely distressing to us as to everyone, but they are individual cases. In other fields, individual guilt results in individual punishment; how can it be right that everyone in the circus community is being discriminated against because of the misguided actions of a very few? In the last 100+years, there have just six prosecutions of circus people; that's six too many, but compare our record with any other context where humans and animals come into contact.

Many activist groups, including the more respectable organisations, have an underlying agenda. They speak of 'animal welfare' when in fact they are selling 'animal rights'. The two philosophies are totally opposite; animal rights seeks to end all contact between humans and animals - no more farm animals, no more pets. In spite of the soft sell 'animal welfare' label, animal rights is part of a wider revolutionary political movement; it is an extreme, hard-line political philosophy. It is not what the public would wish to support when they put their coins in a collecting-tin.

Circus visitors see and approve our facilities, but because of the lack of journalistic balance, we are not able to show a wider public the truth. Animal welfare at circuses is not a complicated issue. Welfare at circuses is verifiably good -- portable stabling and caging is purpose-made, the animals have exercise paddocks and simple environmental enrichments. Circus people listen to, and act upon, the practical advice of zoo vets and animal behaviourists. Specialist inspectors confirm overall high standards; a government report failed to condemn, and was positive in many respects. Regulation will help us prove we're doing it right!

This page includes material placed here by circus people. It shows our animals in the normal circus environment -- relaxing when not working, out grazing, unconfined, with things to do and given love and care. Our animals are part of our lives, part of our circus family. In the interests of balance, in the interest of knowing the truth, we ask you to look, to absorb, and then - to judge fairly!

http://www.facebook.com/groups/circusthetruth/

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