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Animals and Entertainment



Although using animals for entertainment may seem harmless, the treatment the animals receive while in captivity can result in damaging side effects. This fact can be duly noted in the case of Jumbo the elephant, who was taken from his home at a very young age for entertainment purposes. After a troubled life full of constant relocation, malnourishment, and emotional benders, his life came to a tragic end. Jumbo's life demonstrates all the complications that occur when an animal is removed from its natural habitat to be used as a form of entertainment (Trumbauer). Animals like humans are born with certain basic rights that should not be taken from them. Those rights include, but are not limited to, the right to live in a healthy environment free of unnecessary pain and suffering at the hands of people. Using animals for pleasure and entertainment is a violation of their rights since it leads to abuse and neglect, as well as it is immoral and inhumane, and it causes more harm to the animals than it does good.

Since the beginning of time, animals have been used as a means of entertainment that can be traced throughout human history and is still seen today. Circuses and amusement parks are some of the most common forms of entertainment nowadays. Families have grown up going to these places and viewing the different animals performing their tricks and stunts. What many do not realize is that these animals are often pushed beyond their limits and capabilities and forced to perform for the sake of entertainment every day of their lives.

Too often are the animals in the entertainment business abused and neglected by their handlers. These animals are put through harsh training and bad living conditions from which many are left physically and mentally damaged. An example of this is, is how “Many circuses are guilty of not providing the most basic necessities, such as adequate care and housing for the animals” (Roleff). industries rip these animals from their homes for their own personal gain and then force them to live in these inadequate living conditions. Many of these animals were meant to reside in their natural habitats but, since people see that by using these exotic animals they can earn a considerable amount of money for having to use almost no work, they choose to take them from their homes. “The necessity of regular transportation means that the circus can never provide an appropriate home for wild animals.These animals to travel thousands of miles in cramped and squalid conditions purely for the entertainment of we arrogant exploitive humans” (Dixon). These circus animals are not provided large enough living quarters and are forced to amuse people for hours upon hours every day that they are in captivity. They never truly have a place to call home, only a prison they live in until the day that they die. Just as no one would lock their child into a small room to live out their days in darkness, animals should not be locked away.

The training methods applied by the Circus animals’ owners is no more kinder than their living conditions. “Many methods used to train animals to perform tricks involve physical punishment. Animals may be beaten into submission with whips, metal hooks, wooden bats and clubs. Some are muzzled, choked with tight collars, shocked with electric prods or have their teeth or claws removed to make them more manageable” (Roleff). Animals do not feel safe in the hands that care for them. Instead of inspiring trust in these captive animals, they mistreat them and torture them. They also deprive them of the basic necessities such as water and food if they fail to perform or act in the way they are told to.

Although mistreatment is extremely common in circuses, it can also be seen in other entertainment venues alike. Animal fighting has become a common practice which involves abuse and neglect. All dog fighting does is hurt innocent animals who deserve to be in a loving home with people who can truly love them. What is even more terrible are the consequences involved If these dogs fail to win fights. In most cases they will end up abandoned on street corners or in animal shelters and in some of the worst cases they will end up killed in horrific ways. The training involved in preparing these animals for fights is indeed some of the most abusive and rough treatment an animal can receive. For example, training usually involves long sessions on treadmills as well as heavy chains being wrapped around their necks to build neck and upper body strength. Smaller “bait” animals are also restrained or confined to an area and chased and mauled by the dogs as a form of practice. The final step in the dogs’ training is to pair them with a stronger more experienced opponent to test their “gameness” and resolve in the face of exhaustion and impending defeat (Animal Cruelty). No animal deserves to be treated in such a manner. Dogs are companions who would loyally sacrifice their lives for their owners and for someone to take advantage of this bond is despicable.

In every form of training used, whether it be used in circuses or in fights, fear must be carved into an animals mind. In order to maintain control, the animals must fear and obey their trainers. If an animal is fearful for their life and well being it is more likely to comply with its masters commands and requests. In dog fights, if an animal wants to live it must be afraid to die.

Using animals for entertainment and pleasure is immoral and inhumane. Killing for pleasure is unnecessary and wasteful.

Rodeos are no better form of entertainment than circuses. Rodeos demean the animals and force them to act in violence for the pleasure of a human audience. “ Most of the paying public probably doesn’t know what an electric cattle prod even looks like, let alone realize every bull gets a jolt with it when he leaves the chute and often a few before, just to get him revved up so he gives maximum spectator appeal” (Parsons).To achieve the reaction the public wants, the animals who participate in these rodeo events are poked and made to feel threatened and angry. Once an animal feels that their life is in danger or it becomes agitated, they act as nature has told them to, which is in fits of rage. The owners of such magnificent animals cause unnecessary pain to their animals with no regard for their emotions.

Bullfighting, although a popular global pastime, is wrong. “ The idea that there is a fair match between the bull and the matador is laughable. The bull dies at the end of every single bullfight. Matadors are not heroes or artists, they are cruel cowards” (Dixon). Anyone who is willing to kill animal just for the thrill and fun they get from it is heartless. These men and sometimes even women are truly cowards. They taunt these animals for hours and cause them unending pain. The steps involved in a bull fight evolve from not so harmful to deadly. The first phase of a bull fight is to have the bulls run through the streets were they are hit by rolled up newspapers and taunted by the observers, then once in the ring the matador begins the next phase by taunting the bull with a long cape, then come the picadors who lance the bull around the neck, then follow the bandilleros who stick barbed headed sticks in between the bull's shoulders making it lower its head. The final step to this agonizingly painful process is when the matador resumes his post taunting the bull and then places his sword directly between the bull's shoulder blades forcing it all the way through the bull's heart (Trumbauer). It is astonishing that a crowd gains pleasure from watching an animal suffer and die through hours of pain. These people have never paused to see what it was like from the bull's perspective because they believe it to be a meaningless animal whose only purpose was to die and not live a well deserved life. Just as humans have the right to live the way they wish to live animals have the right to live out their days with the least amount of pain and suffering.

Hunting for recreational purposes is a cruel form of murder of which no animal should have to suffer for. “Every year across America, hunters legally kill over 100 million creatures, mainly for the fun of it” (Irwin). This statistic only reflects the number of legally killed animals killed by hunters just in America. The most devastating effects of hunting are reflected in the methods of selection the hunter uses. “ They either shoot animals at random, or they seek out the strongest and healthiest animals in order to bring home the biggest trophies or largest antlers” (Roleff). Either way a hunter hunts an animals dies. In many cases the animals killed will be left to rot not even taken to be used as food and things of that kind.

Using animals for pleasure is killing entire species and is causing the animals more harm than good. “For millennia, hunting has helped wipe out entire animal populations. For instance, it is believed that early North American aboriginal hunters were largely responsible for wiping out many of the continent’s large Pleistocene mammals, such as the mammoth; mastodon; long-necked camel; giant lion, bear and wolf; as well as the 400-pound beaver and seven-foot-tall bison” (Roleff). Since the beginning of man’s reign, humans have been responsible for the disappearance of countless of animals. After so many years of seeing the side effects that exist of hunting however, the circumstances have not changed for the better. Hunters still go about their killing and the number of endangered animals keep deteriorating.

They are taught to fear those that feed them and this is an unhealthy relationship between human and animal. This fear is what inevitably causes animal to turn against humans. Animals just like humans, have a tolerance level and when they are constantly being pushed beyond their limits they must react in the way that nature instructs them to. Such is the case of Tilikum the whale who drowned its trainer Dawn Brancheau. Sea world had taken this “12,000-pound killer whale out of the pacific” and placed it into a tank. Frank Thomas goes on to say, “It’s arrogance to presume that after a period of training animals like Tilikum that they have been “deprogrammed” of their feral tendencies” (Thomas). These animals are taken from their natural habitats and forced to learn and perform tricks that they wouldn’t either wise be doing. They are kept in small aquariums where they deteriorate and disintegrate through a slow and painful death.

Animals, like humans, are entitled to basic rights of living free of unnecessary pain and suffering. The animals used for pleasure and entertainment purposes are not being granted those basic rights. Therefore, using animals for entertainment is wrong because it leads to abuse, mistreatment and harm beyond repair. It is imperative that these captive animals be rescued from their torturous lives so that they may also enjoy life as best as they can.