Animals in the Circus Hit, Bullied, Chained, and Deprived
In 2015, an eyewitness visited Suzhou, China, which encompasses more than 300 circuses, to go inside 10 different circuses and animal training facilities. What they documented there was horrifying.
Despite months of warnings from locals, authorities reportedly failed to intervene before 25 dogs died at an Alaska dog-sled kennel.
Chaos erupted when fireworks at a rodeo event reportedly sent horses into a panicked stampede. PETA’s reminding everyone that incidents like this are predictable—and preventable.
Elephants like Viola don’t perform in circuses because they want to—they perform because they’re afraid of what will happen if they don’t.
At SeaWorld and other “abusement” parks, dolphins endure a lifetime of confinement, control, and exploitation.
