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
Circus Hollywood
Circus Pages
Culpepper & Merriweather Circus
Franzen Bros. Circus
Garden Bros. Circus (previously known as Piccadilly)
Jordan World Circus
Lewis & Clark Circus
Mitchel Kalmanson
Royal Hanneford Circus
Shrine circuses
Tarzan Zerbini Circus

No Longer Uses Animals

Circo Hermanos Vazquez
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
UniverSoul Circus

Closed

Cole Bros. Circus – CLOSED
Hawthorn Corporation – CLOSED
Kelly Miller Circus – CLOSED
Liebel Circus – CLOSED

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