Some Facts

• Elephant's who praform in the circus are chained up for about 23 hours a day, from the time they were babies.
• Tens of thousands of wild and domesticated horses from the United States are cruelly slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the U.S. were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
• Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.
• A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.
• Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.