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This gurl isn't Foxing around!

CSI's Sarah Sidie Jorja Fox is taking a hardline against elephant abuse in circuses.

In the video (above) she shows viewers a bullhook, a very painful tool used to make elephants do tricks. She talks of Krissy, a gentle giant stolen from Africa to be used in the circus.

Fox explains why she's behind this cause:

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Looks like a circus may be busted after not being so kind to their elephants!

After two complaints from PETA, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has filed formal charges against Cole Bros. Circus due to the lack of physical safety and psychological well-being of two elephants.

PETA claimed that Tina and Jewell were forced to travel and perform despite being underweight by HUNDREDS of pounds.

The USDA has filed over 10 charges against the circus and have confiscated both elephants.

The charges include:

Tags: abuse, animal rights, animals, circus, cruelty, elephants, peta, tigers, usda

Someone just got tired of life in showbiz! HA!

An elephant breaks free of the circus in Ireland and makes a run for it. This does not bode well for property or people!

Check out the big guy try to make it back to the wild (above). It's going to take A LOT of manpower to stop this elephant!

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PETA QUICK TIPS: Cruelty-Free Circuses

An animal-free circus is a cruelty-free circus!

PETA explains how they are even better because there's no animal abuse but just as much wonderment and thrills as ever.

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Alec Baldwin stars in PETA's latest ad.

He joins PETA in the call to boycott circuses that use animals.

There is so much abuse that goes on at these circuses, which force their animals to perform, and he speaks specifically about circus elephants.

Ex explains why it'd be better to have no circuses at all than ones that regularly harm animals.

Check out the above video to hear why U should boycott circuses that use animal performers.

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The Liebel Family Circus was going to perform several shows at National Guard armories in Arkansas.

Luckily PETA stepped in and wrote a letter to Major General William D. Wofford of the Arkansas National Guard and explained how the circus's owner, Hugo Liebel has been hit with almost three dozen violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

Immediately realizing he didn't want the National Guard to be associated with such cruelty, Major General Wofford cancelled four scheduled performances.

Hugo Liebel is a cruel man with a long history of animal abuse, from tying down or chaining up animals to the point where they can't move, to literally beating them with bullhooks and electric prods.

We are so glad that PETA stepped in and was able to send a message that animal abuse will NOT be tolerated.

[Image courtesy Usien/Wikimedia Commons.]

Tags: abuse, circus, cruelty, letter, national guard, peta

Jada Pinkett Smith is a native of Baltimore and as Ringling Bros. circus nears its Baltimore stop Jada has penned a letter to the Mayor.

She wants to urge her to make sure there is a ban on any "mechanical, electrical, or manual device that is likely to cause physical injury or suffering" to an animal in order to force it to perform.

In her letter, she wrote:

"Unlike me and other actors, elephants do not choose to perform. They are often violently coerced by Ringling's trainers with bullhooks, which are jabbed into the sensitive areas of their bodies."

So let's hope the Mayor makes sure to keep Ringling honest or else the circus may face another huge fine.

[Image via Mavrix Online.]

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