Support TEAPSPA: The Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM NARN Northwest Animal Rights Network
July 2019

ACTION

circus Lion
Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / WeAnimals.org

The Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA), introduced last month in Congress, would amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the use of exotic and wild animals in traveling performances.

Follow up your letter with a call. This bill has strong opposition and has failed before.

Contact your Senators and Representative NOW in support of TEAPSPA. Phone calls are especially effective, so please follow up your email with a call. Constituent voices are very powerful and can open doors to the most surprising places.

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INFORMATION

Insufficient Space
Animals are housed and transported in very small cages.

Extended Periods Spent in Transport Vehicles
Even for short journeys, animals are often loaded long before, and unloaded long after.

Lack of Exercise / Restriction of Natural Behaviors
Circuses lack the resources to allow animals to exercise normally or act naturally.

Stress From Abnormal Conditions
Solitary animals get crowded together, predators and prey are housed in close proximity, and family members are separated.

Physical Abuse
Most “tricks” are coerced through the use of bull hooks, electric prods, whips, metal bars, and methods most would view as torturous.

circus whips
Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / WeAnimals.org

Resulting Problems
Animals kept in circus conditions are prone to severe health, behavioral, and psychological problems.

Regulation Difficulties
Studies show that the transient nature of traveling circuses present significant challenges to, and increase the costs of, regulation and enforcement.

Safety Concerns
The extreme stress caused by the circus environment often makes wild animals highly dangerous, especially with the public. Deaths and injuries are becoming increasingly common.


Thank you for everything you do for animals!


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