K. A. Applegate Quotes

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

I hate zoos.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.