Training Process of Young Elephants

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As former Ringling Brothers employees have described, there is a culture of abuse at the circus that includes the constant use of bull hooks and other weapons on the elephants and keeping the elephants chained for most of their lives.

During the initial days, the young elephant is dragged to the training area against its will. This often cruel and painful process is intended to “break the will” of the young elephant and gain its total submission. This process normally takes about a week.
Afterwards, the young elephant is tied to a wooden frame or between two trees, where it can’t move, but it tries over and over again to break free from the rope. The trainer uses the tactics of fear, pain, hunger, and thirst until the elephant stops resisting and totally submits. As the elephant starts to accept its fate, the trainer will allow it to take a bath and eat.
The disturbing picture is taken by a former trainer with hiden camera which campaigners say reveal the brutal reality of how elephants are prepared for circus work.

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0 #19 Gerry 2010-02-25 15:15

If what is being described is happening,that is horrible, but these pics do not support the words... IF the abuse is so rampant, why aren't there pics of that going on??? I'm not defending immoral or abusive behaviour, but don't parade pics in front of me that show one thing while describing behaviours that are not in evidence in the pictures... This type of publicity works more for the circus than against it because it does NOT SHOW the abuse happening...

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+2 #18 Char 2010-02-01 13:36

Quoting larrydavid:

Wow. So Cute! Great Pictures, Love Em. Elephants are so adorable.

If u loved elehants so much u would realise that these *Great Pictures* involved them being treated incredibly badly and are in fact awful pictures.....

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-7 #17 larrydavid 2010-01-13 13:21

Wow. So Cute! Great Pictures, Love Em. Elephants are so adorable.

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0 #16 Bea Elliott 2010-01-08 20:02

The whole idea of using and torturing these elephants for "entertainment" is insane! The only thing that "justifies" it is the money that is made from the exploitation. 200+ years ago slaveholders were also profiting from innocent, captive beings! Empty the cages! We have no "right" to enslave Others for our whim or "need". It's barbaric and totally unnecessary!

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+4 #15 HwL 2010-01-02 13:56

F.... Humans, soon I will Destroy all !!!!, remember my words !!!!.

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-2 #14 jtlalmimilolpan 2009-12-30 17:44

God did not intend for these massive animals to be standing on their heads with their feet in the air nor for wold animals, like lions, to be caged. if He did, He would would have left cages for them when He created them.

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+11 #13 Martin 2009-12-28 23:44

Okay this is torture. They are forcing them. They're binding them with ropes so they would take the right positsion and that is wrong. Animals have rights. We are animals, so why do we get more rights then other animals? Discrimination. You can't have discrimination between men and women, blacks and white, but with animals its okay? Don't tell me they are less intelligent, so what. Some people are dummer than other too.
The whole human race is wrong. Everything is messed up. Only way to fix it is to take action. In the animal kingdom it is stronger ones survive. And that doesn't mean that humans should try to find out who is the strongest. We should work as one and get rid of all the scum, that is ruining human kind.

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-24 #12 marcus brumberger 2009-12-28 19:11

i don't see anything wrong here

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-23 #11 marcus brumberger 2009-12-28 18:33

lol i don't think that thay are hurting the elephants. we train dogs not to shit in the house isn't that abuse by your definition

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+12 #10 Unknown 2009-12-28 00:44

I find it a bit shocking how a majority of people won't consider this a form of animel cruelty in any way, but yet certain small things make the counry burst into an uproar of controversy. And it's even more beyond me that people will actually pay to watch this. It's an awful thing, and really shows how selfish most of the human race is. The circus is an awful, awful place for animals.

Humans are also selfish, really. The only reason we're doing this is because we think it's amusing or entertaining. I doubt any of the trainers or ringmasters take the way there animals feel into consideration. Please, people, stop giving this dreadful business money and stop going to these monuments to cruelty.

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