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When people go to a soccer game, they don’t expect to see a distressed bald eagle struggling to break free from a handler as fireworks explode around him, but that’s exactly what happened at a U.S. Women’s National Team match in Washington, D.C. The bald eagle, Clark, was hauled from a facility in Missouri just for this spectacle, and the U.S. Soccer Federation must prevent animals from suffering like this again.
Exploiting a bald eagle—who symbolizes freedom—is especially ironic, but no animal should be trucked hundreds of miles and forced to endure terrifying pyrotechnics and thousands of shouting fans in a stadium. There have been several incidents at sporting events in which wild animals have broken loose from handlers, just as Clark tried to do, and birds have crashed while flying around a stadium.
Please use the form below to urge J.T. Batson, CEO of the U.S. Soccer Federation, to prohibit the use of wild animals at events the organization’s teams attend.