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Citations and Other Problems

Click on any of the circuses or animal exhibitors below to view information about their USDA citations, warnings, fines, animal deaths, dangerous incidents, and other problems. Many of these lists are updated frequently. Be sure to check back often.

Big Cats Suffer in Traveling Acts Exposé
Carden Family
Carson & Barnes Circus
Circo Hermanos Vazquez – Currently animal-free
Circus Hollywood
Circus Pages
Cole Bros. Circus – CLOSED
Culpepper & Merriweather Circus
Franzen Bros. Circus
Garden Bros. Circus (previously known as Piccadilly)
Hawthorn Corporation – CLOSED
Jordan World Circus
Kelly Miller Circus – CLOSED
Lewis & Clark Circus
Liebel Circus – stopped touring after elephant seized by officials in 2017
Mitchel Kalmanson
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus – CLOSED
Royal Hanneford Circus
Shrine circuses
Tarzan Zerbini Circus
UniverSoul Circus

Urgent Alerts

mother and calf
Tell Fleet Feet and Rabbit to Stop Promoting Milk Marathon

Urge Fleet Feet and Rabbit to reconsider their promotion of this hypocritical, anti-female event.

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© Jo-Anne McArthur / Eyes On Animals / We Animals Media
rattlesnake in Mojave desert grass
Countless Rattlesnakes Slaughtered in Cruel Events Across the Country—Speak Up!

Let the event organizers and officials in the following cities know that you’re appalled by their support of this carnage. Urge them to scrap the events and leave these animals in peace.

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© iStock.com/MarkKostich
For Illustrative Purposes
Mt. Hope Auction Sponsors: Reconsider Supporting the Suffering of Wild and Exotic Animals!

Urge “Mt. Horror” sponsors to shun future exotic-animal auctions.

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Urgent
Behind Bars for 50 Years: Miyako the Elephant Needs Your Help

Miyako the elephant has suffered in a cramped pen for a half-century. Will you please urge the zoo’s owner to accept PETA’s offer to transfer her to a suitable facility?

Take Action
Enough Monkey Business! Tell FOX: Exploiting Real Animals on ‘Animal Control’ Isn’t Funny

Unlike Joel McHale, monkeys and sloths aren’t desperate to be on TV.

Take Action
THIS Is How the 2022 Iditarod Is Actually Going (Photos, Video)
These Alaskan Companies Are Sponsoring a Death Race—Act Now!

Urge Delta Leasing and the Matanuska Valley Federal Credit Union to cut ties with the Iditarod.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
PETA’s Milestones for Animals: 1980 to Now
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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