Rose-Tu, an elephant at the Oregon Zoo, is facing her second forced pregnancy. As if it wasn't enough that she was beat and sodomized at just five years old.
The Oregon Zoo paid a $10,000 federal fine after authorities found that this youngster had one hundred and seventy-six gashes and cuts after being repeatedly struck with a bullhook - a heavy baton with a sharp metal hook on the end - that was also used on her. Rose-Tu's first forced pregnancy resulted in the confusion, frightening, chaining of Rose-Tu after she kicked her newborn.
Costly, traumatic elephant-breeding programs are indefensible. The mortality rate for the babies is high, and no baby who manages to survive will ever be released into the wild. If Rose-Tu's pregnancy is successful, her baby may eventually be shipped to "Have Trunk Will Travel," which is a program who has been caught on tape abusing elephants, including babies. Trainers with Have Trunk Will Travel (HTWT), one of the last companies that provides elephants for the entertainment industry, were filmed repeatedly shocking elephants with electric prods and beating them with bullhooks. The videos real many thing: a baby elephant cries out every time a handler hooks hi in the lip, and another elephant bellows in pain when a handler jabs her on her sensitive belly and genital area to force her to "perform" a headstand! One gruesome scene shows handlers pinning an elephant down with bullhooks while workers saw down her tusks, cl,dose to the bone!
HTWT uses elephants who as babies were captured in the wild and subjected to intense beatings to break their spirits. Elephants travel around 30 miles a day in the wild, but at HTWT they are chained in place by one front foot and one back foot all night, every night, and for more than half of every day during the winter months. The owners, Kari & Gary Johnson have opposed legislation to protect elephants repeatedly. They defend the use of cruel electric bullhooks and prods on elephants.
The best thing you and I can do is never buying a ticket to go to the zoo, or any organization of show using animals for entertainment. Thank you.
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