Former circus elephants just arrived at a new sanctuary. They are swimming and grazing on fruit buff

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7. Watching the tears running out of Elephants eyes

as inconsiderate circus organizers made the elephants walk on piping hot asphalt city streets, supposedly assuming for little kids like me to enjoy, turned me off to this animal cruelty early on.

What I watched that day was made worse when the circus parade stopped for a few minutes, forcing the Elephants to hop scotch around their little piece of pavement, trying to get their feet off the hot pavement and even hotter steel trolley tracks embedded in that pavement.

Imagine stepping on a hot sand beach burning your feet and in great pain being made to keep walking or get a bull-hook jab.