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Even though prominent circuses have made the successful switch to featuring only willing human performers in their acts in recent years, Jordan World Circus continues to exploit animals. After a hard-hitting PETA campaign, Jordan World Circus stopped using elephants, but the circus continues to work with notorious animal exhibitors who use intimidating and often violent methods to force animals to perform confusing tricks.
At Jordan World Circus, animals are used in performances and are forced to interact with the public before shows and during intermission. Ponies are forced to haul children on their backs in small, endless circles. Snakes are used as props for photo ops and get handled by dozens of strangers. Camels are loaded up with circusgoers and marched around the ring. Once the show starts, camels are chased around the ring with whips and exposed to loud crowds, music, and bright, disorienting lights. Dogs are forced to perform meaningless, often dangerous tricks for human entertainment. None of these animals consented to life in a traveling circus, and when they aren’t being forced to interact with strangers, they are typically confined to small trailers and make-shift pens.
Please send a polite message to the circus’s owners, Jody and Melanie Jordan, and ask that they end the cruel animal acts and focus on the talents of willing human performers instead.