Atlanta/Buford: Protest Cruel Animal Acts!

Please join local PETA supporters in calling on Shriners International's leadership to ensure all Shrine chapters stop hosting cruel animal circuses!

Although Shriners claim to be dedicated to compassion and service, elephants, tigers, and other animals exploited in Shrine circuses live under the constant threat of being hit with bullhooks—sharp steel-tipped rods that resemble fireplace pokers—whips, and other weapons to force them to perform confusing and painful tricks. Shrine circuses routinely work with cruel exhibitors—such as the Carson & Barnes Circus, whose appallingly long history of animal abuse includes more than 100 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act—to supply the animals for their acts.