Protestors Urge Audiences to Shun the Wild Animal Circus (ITASCA, IL)

ITASCA, Ill. - Sept. 24, 2014 - PRLog -- September 24, 2014, ITASCA, IL—Animal Defenders International (ADI) is calling on the local community to stay away from the Kelly Miller Circus and avoid supporting an industry that involves cruelty and suffering to animals.

Studies of the use of wild animals in traveling circuses show that circuses cannot meet the physical or behavioral needs of wild animals. Animals are confined in small spaces, deprived of physical and social needs, spending excessive amounts of time shut in transporters. These animals are often seen behaving abnormally; rocking, swaying and pacing, all indicating that they are in distress and not coping with their environment. ADI’s video evidence has shown how these animals are forced to perform tricks through physical violence, fear and intimidation.

“Keeping wild animals like lions, tigers, bears and elephants chained and shut in small spaces, then beating them to perform tricks for human entertainment shames us all,” said Matt Rossell, ADI Campaigns Director.

ADI is calling on supporters to warn audiences of the behind-the-scenes suffering of animals in traveling circuses when the Kelly Miller Circus comes to Itasca, Illinoison Thursday, September 25, 2014.

WHAT:          Kelly Miller Circus Protest

WHEN:Thurs, Sept. 25, from 3:30 to 4:30 and from 6:30 to 7:30

WHERE:          Washington Park, 350 E Irving Park Rd. Itasca, IL 60143

Local campaigners will be handing out leaflets and informing audiences about the suffering and telling people that the animal circus is no longer acceptable in a modern, advanced society. Circus owners are urged to leave animals out of future productions.

Maxine Jaffee, local ADI representative said, “When families find out about the routine abuses that go on behind the scenes at circuses, they will be shocked and will not want to expose their children to this cruelty.”