Moving people toward compassionate living Your letters and calls
do help! |Originally Posted: 30 July 2010| Stop Use Of Cruel
Bullhooks On Elephants In Zoos And Circuses 1. Submit the online
petition (below) to send a message to USDA Deputy Administrator
Chester Gipson. Urge him to issue an Animal Care Policy
Statement clarifying that the handling of elephants using “free
contact” and use of the bullhook is a violation of the Animal
Welfare Act and regulations meant to protect elephants and other
animals used for exhibition. 2. If you live near a zoo that uses
circus-style handling and bullhooks with its elephants, please
call the zoo director and urge the zoo to make the switch to the
“protected contact” system of elephant training, which only uses
positive reinforcement and does not allow bullhooks. Click here
for a list of zoos that use bullhooks and their phone numbers.
Sign an online petition And/Or make direct contact: Dr. Chester
A. Gipson INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS he recent attack by a
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