Introduction Remember back from your childhood ever going to the zoo or to the circus with your parents. You were likely amazed and entertained by the display and performance of the animals you saw. I felt the same way when my parents brought me to the Ringling Bros. Circus everytime they come to town. But I have come to learn recently this circus I’ve gone to many times and enjoyed are closing for good. According to Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society, “It’s just not acceptable any longer to cart wild animals from city to city and have them perform silly yet coercive stunts… but I applaud their decision to move away from an institution grounded on inherently inhumane wild animal acts.” After 146 years of run, the Feld Entertainment …show more content…
Animal welfare is the physical and mental well-being of domestic, agricultural, or wildlife display animals under human care and supervision. Micah Issitt wrote in his overview the history of how animal welfare came to be which can be understood by this statement “Early zoos, aquariums, and circuses obtained their animals from the wild and operated with little understanding of how to care for wild animals in captivity.” In the eighteenth century the entertainment industries had little knowledge in care or treatment of their captive animals that may had created animal welfare in means of dreadful. At the Tweddle Farm Zoo the CAPS organization had taken rabbits in to see a vet for treatment of infections but after that expose the police retrieved a monkey that was kept all alone and only fed with cake and other junk foods. Even so that demonstrates poor animal welfare, well in SeaWorld San Diego an orca named Nakai they obtained suffered a torn tissue of the lower jaw exposed that can be described as “a dinner plate-sized chunk”. These awful situations are caused by the lack of supervision of the animal caretakers and proper living conditions in their