Animals should never be torn from their natural habitats, forced to live in cages and perform tricks. Kept in an unhealthy environment and unable to express natural behaviors, wild animals kept in captivity suffer from boredom, lack of exercise and physical ailments, and develop neurotic behaviors.
Urge Shriners International to adopt a humane, modern business model by prohibiting local chapters from using sensitive wild animals in their circuses.
From roadside zoos and elephant rides to posing with sloths and swimming with dolphins, interactions with wild animals are both cruel and dangerous. These attractions endanger public health and safety by bringing people into close contact with unpredictable and often stressed wild animals who may bite or scratch. Wild animals can also spread bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal diseases that pose serious health risks to people.
In 37 states restrict the use of wild animals in traveling shows.
In the U.S. offer public interactions with animals; a figure that nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021.
Are captured in the wild and imported into the U.S. annually, on average, to feed the demand for captive sloths.
Inhumane animal attractions come in many forms, from petting sloths or lemurs to unethical drive-through safari park operations. All too often, animals suffer physical and psychological distress for human entertainment. You can help stop this and all other animal cruelty.
