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Fri. 10/23/09 10:24 AM

Tickets to the circus - there are better choices

Instead of supporting a business that treats elephants inhumanely, you could teach your kids a lesson about peoples' responsibilities to animals and send your money to the humane society or an animal sanctuary. Come on! Even the Detroit Zoo determined their elephant exhibit was inhumane. And they weren't dragging their elephants all over the country in small enclosures. Your kids childhoods won't be lacking if they don't get to the circus. Talk to your kids about it, and then take them to the zoo. Or go to a circus that doesn't have elephants.

ajbe, Ann Arbor, MI

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