Marie and Schell need you!
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Ottawa Animal Defense League
Aug 1, 2011, 12:19:10 PM8/1/11
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This is a reminder about this weekend's upcoming circus protests.
If you have not already replied to me, please let me know if you are coming, and which demo time(s) you plan to attend - I need to know so I can bring enough posters, leaflets, and stickers.
Here are the details again:
LOCATION: Ottawa Baseball Stadium, 300 Coventry Road (near the corner of the Vanier Parkway)
Demos will be at the following times:
Friday, August 5th - 6PM
Saturday, August 6th - 11AM, 3PM and 6PM
Sunday, August 7th - 12PM and 4PM
All materials will be provided. Come out to one or more demos, even if you can only stay for half an hour. Activists will also be coming back when the day time shows get out, to talk to those who just endured the show, so please consider joining us at those times as well.
Please show how you feel about animal circuses, with the cruelty and confinement these animals have to endure nearly every day of the year. Animals are not ours to use for entertainment and the Shrine Circus does not need to present a circus that uses animals. The circus in these events is actually put on by TZ Productions (Tarzan Zerbini Circus), and they have produced events without animals in the past - only 3 out of 16 acts last year involved animals, so they have no excuse for continuing to include animals in their show.
In particular, the elephants in the TZ show are Marie and Schell, Asian elephants who are 38 and 46 years old, respectively. Marie was captured from the wild at age 2, and has been performing for TZ Productions since the age of 6. Schell was previously owned by the “Endangered Ark Foundation” which is a breeding facility for Carson & Barnes Circus. She has been performing for TZ Productions since the age of 25. Elephants in captivity live half as long as their counterparts in the wild. They suffer psychological damage from their decades of captivity, and they frequently suffer from painful foot ailments that end in euthanasia; this is from the unnatural surfaces they are forced to stand on, day in and day out.
If you have not already replied to me, please let me know if you are coming, and which demo time(s) you plan to attend - I need to know so I can bring enough posters, leaflets, and stickers.
Here are the details again:
LOCATION: Ottawa Baseball Stadium, 300 Coventry Road (near the corner of the Vanier Parkway)
Demos will be at the following times:
Friday, August 5th - 6PM
Saturday, August 6th - 11AM, 3PM and 6PM
Sunday, August 7th - 12PM and 4PM
All materials will be provided. Come out to one or more demos, even if you can only stay for half an hour. Activists will also be coming back when the day time shows get out, to talk to those who just endured the show, so please consider joining us at those times as well.
Please show how you feel about animal circuses, with the cruelty and confinement these animals have to endure nearly every day of the year. Animals are not ours to use for entertainment and the Shrine Circus does not need to present a circus that uses animals. The circus in these events is actually put on by TZ Productions (Tarzan Zerbini Circus), and they have produced events without animals in the past - only 3 out of 16 acts last year involved animals, so they have no excuse for continuing to include animals in their show.
In particular, the elephants in the TZ show are Marie and Schell, Asian elephants who are 38 and 46 years old, respectively. Marie was captured from the wild at age 2, and has been performing for TZ Productions since the age of 6. Schell was previously owned by the “Endangered Ark Foundation” which is a breeding facility for Carson & Barnes Circus. She has been performing for TZ Productions since the age of 25. Elephants in captivity live half as long as their counterparts in the wild. They suffer psychological damage from their decades of captivity, and they frequently suffer from painful foot ailments that end in euthanasia; this is from the unnatural surfaces they are forced to stand on, day in and day out.
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