In the wake of the near-fatal attack by a 7-year-old tiger on Roy Horn of the Las Vegas stage act Siegfried & Roy, PETA is calling for a ban on the use of live animals in entertainment acts

A Chimp in filthy enclosure surrounded by garbage

A tiger cub in a small depressing cage with a small window

— including circuses — where more than 200 people and animals (including many threatened species) have been tragically hurt and killed in similar incidents since 1990. Click here to read more Sigfried & Roy and captive animal acts.

The cruelty to animals in such acts extends well beyond their capture, abusive training, inadequate housing, and deprivation of nearly everything that is natural to them. A recent undercover investigation by PETA of the Amarillo (Texas) Wildlife Refuge documented the type of horrific lives many of these animals endure when they are out of the spotlight.

How You Can Help Save These Animals-and Many More

Sign PETA's "Stop the Cruelty!" Petition to urge U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman to enforce the Animal Welfare Act to the fullest extent possible, thereby better ensuring both the animals' and the public's safety.

Contact U.S. government officials to let them know that you oppose efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act by allowing circuses, zoos, and others in the animal- entertainment industry to kill, capture, and import animals, many of them on the brink of extinction, from other countries. Contact Peter O. Thomas, Chief, Division of Management Authority, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Rm. 700, Arlington, VA 22203; 703-358-2280 (fax).

Urge your city council members or local government officials to introduce a bill banning wild animal ownership and wild animal acts (we can help-please contact PETA at captiveanimals@peta.org).

Make a tax-deductible emergency contribution to support PETA's campaign to stop the abuse and suffering of animals in entertainment acts. We're hard at work 24-7:

educating the public and law-enforcement authorities about the desperate plight of captive animals

fighting to see that the Animal Welfare Act is enforced

supporting legislation to restrict private ownership of exotic and wild animals and opposing shocking efforts by the U.S. government to weaken the Endangered Species Act

exposing the terrible treatment of animals in entertainment acts and related animal facilities like the Amarillo Wildlife Refuge through undercover investigations, legal action, and public-pressure campaigns

With your support, we will do everything possible to make despicable animal acts disappear-forever! It's a battle we can win, so please help these innocent animals today!