Stop the Dancing Bears

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  • Start Date:
    9-4-2008
  • Last Signed:
    12-29-2008

Intended Recipient:

Pratibha Patil, Current President of India

Description:

The dancing bears of india is a cruel and disgusting tradition carried out by the Kalandar gypsies to make money to support their families. As a cub, sloth bears have their noses crudely pierced by a burning hot needle without any anasthetics. These often get infected and can become infested with maggots. As the cub gets older it has to suffer another piercing through the soft pallete of its mouth so it can be made easier to control. The bears are then forced to "dance" by being hit on the feet with sticks, as the bear gets older it learns to be afraid of the stick and moves its feet when the stick is hit on the ground to avoid the prospect of pain. Also the bear is fed a diet of porridge which is no where near to what their natural diet is. This leads to the bears becoming malnurished as well as in constant pain.

 

This NEEDS to STOP!

 

Everyone who thinks this is disgusting and cruel please sign and see if we can stop this from continuing! Please!!!

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Forum Discussion for Stop the Dancing Bears

hurting an animal for any reason is horrible it makes me sick to the stomach even know that ppl do this to these poor animals wat if someone did that to u how would u feel its so horrible ='( THIS JUST HAS TO STOP

any form of abuse either towards animals or humans is unacceptable behaviour.It shows a complete lack of respect for other living things

This practice is obviously very cruel and it should be stopped, we as human beings should respect other life on this planet. This practice also has the effect of not just harming the bear but also must affect the people who do this by hardening them to feeling compassion or empathy to the bear which leads to losing this feeling to other animals and eventually other people. It is not acceptable to benefit from the harming of others whether they are human or animal, bad Karma I would think. I hope that these people come back as bears in their next life. If we are to improve ourselves we should all have more sense and ban this type of treatment of ANY animal.

a truly disgusting thing!

Animal abuse in any shape or form needs to be STOPPED! We must be the voice of these defenseless animals.

I believe the people of india have other ways to make money in a prosperious manner,example their jewerly is beautiful,why don't the women make jewerly to sell in place of making bears dance ,and causing pain on them.I'm sure it would be alot cheaper to make jewerly, then to train a bear and feed him and shelter him.

PERSONALLY I UTTERMOST AGREE IN STOPPING THE DANCING BEAR NOT ONLY IN INDIA,BUT WHEREVER IN THE WHOLE WORLD THIS IS PRACTISED.
THIS PAVLOV SYNDROME IN TEACHING A BEAR TO DANCE IN COMBINATION WITH THE ACOUSTIC OF A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IS SURELY SADISTIC.
HOW THIS IS DONE?
AT FIRST THEY PLACE THE POOR BEAR ON A LARGE HOT METAL PLATE AND IT STARTS HOPPING ONE FOOT THEN THE OTHER SO THAT THE FOOT IN THE AIR COOLS...ANS SO ON.
AFTER AWHILE THE MUSIC STARTS AND THE POOR BEAR LOCKS IN ITS MIND THE BURNING OF ITS FEET COMBINED WITH THE BEAT OF THE MUSIC.
AFTER A COUPLE OF SADISTIC WEEKS THE BEAR IS RELEASED FROM THIS PROCEDURE.
NOW ITS READY TO DANCE.
AT THE HEARING OF THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IT THINKS THAT ITS FEET ARE BURNING SO IT DANCES COMBINING THAT "MUSIC MEANS BURNING OF THE FEET"...!!!!!!

NICHOLAOS.L

ANY ANIMAL CRUELTY OR ABUSE IN ANY FORM, IS SICK AND CRUEL. WE NEED AN END TO ALL ANIMAL SUFFERING AROUND THE WORLD, IT IS SO SENSELESS. WE NEED TO SPEAK FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

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