The circus is coming to Yorkville. Please read this before considering attending.. Join our protest online on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/circusprotest/
All information is to be credited to: Sandy Rose Kazenko for researching. She is the Founder of this protest group.
The Kelly Miller circus has a history of being cited for animal abuse and neglect, as well as hiring illegal aliens and wanted felons. Three tigers were allowed to escape and caught three hours later! Bull hooks are used in plain sight of children on the elephants – as if bull hooks aren’t bad enough.
A witness reported seeing elephants being tortured until they scream!
The Kelly Miller Circus is coming to the Kendall County Fairgrounds on Wednesday September 4th. Please do not support this cruelty!!
Additionally, these people are not safe! July 28, 2006: According to the Evening Tribune, a Kelly Miller employee was charged with first-degree rape of a 14-year-old girl in Nunda, New York. The victim had attended a circus performance.
Please call and ask for this event to be canceled!
Kendall County Fairgrounds.... State Route 71 & E Highpoint Rd, Yorkville, IL 60560 (630) 553-2860
"An eyewitness has come forward to report appalling cruelty to an elephant at the notorious Kelly Miller Circus. The observer, who was on circus premises on August 8, reports that she and her son saw a handler—part of a Carson & Barnes Circus unit traveling with Kelly Miller—use a "stick" that had a sharp hook on the end (i.e., a bullhook) to beat an elephant who was carrying four children on her back.
The elephant was reportedly hit so hard that she "screamed," with each strike producing an audible "whack" sound. The witness swore out an affidavit describing the beating, and PETA has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to investigate."
Carson and barnes/Kelly Miller violation FACTS
http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?more=1&p=420
Kelly Miller Circus USDA License #73-C-0021, P.O. Box 829, Hugo, OK 74743
Kelly Miller Circus has failed to meet minimum federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Kelly Miller Circus for failure to handle animals in a manner that is safe for the animals and the public, failure to provide veterinary records, and failure to provide structurally sound enclosures. Kelly Miller Circus leases animals from its sister circus, Carson & Barnes. Contact PETA for documentation.
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October 7, 2011: The USDA cited Carson & Barnes Circus for improper handling of elephants who were giving rides while with Kelly Miller Circus. During the inspection, the only elephant handler controlling an elephant during rides was observed handing money to another employee while the elephant walked away with the passengers.
At another time, one handler was observed handling two elephants for a period of time. One elephant with passengers walked ahead while the handler loaded the second elephant. The first elephant stopped at a curtain exit with no physical barrier to stop her.
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July 21, 2011: The USDA cited Natalie Cainan, the tiger exhibitor traveling with the Kelly Miller Circus, for violating the AWA after three tigers escaped from their transport enclosures and one bit a horse. It took approximately 30 minutes to safely contain the tigers. This escape posed a threat to the tigers, the public, and other animals.
June 16, 2007: The USDA cited Kelly Miller Circus for including a poodle owned by an unlicensed exhibitor in its show.
July 28, 2006: According to the Evening Tribune, a Kelly Miller employee was charged with first-degree rape of a 14-year-old girl in Nunda, New York. The victim had attended a circus performance.
October 20, 2005: The USDA cited Kelly Miller for failure to provide an elephant named Libby, who had a painful oozing puncture wound that pierced her ear, with veterinary care and failure to provide an elephant named Nina, who had a long, deep crack in her toenail and whose toenails had not been trimmed in a while, with foot care. Captivity-induced foot problems and arthritis are the leading reasons for euthanasia of captive elephants.
March 13, 2002: The USDA cited Kelly Miller for failure to maintain enclosures in a manner that would protect the animals from injury and to contain the animals.
October 4, 2001: The USDA cited Eduardo Steeples, a chimpanzee exhibitor used by Kelly Miller Circus,for inadequate ventilation; failure to provide the chimpanzee, who was stored in a cage that measured only 5’x4’x6’, with minimum space; improper social grouping; failure to provide a chimpanzee, who was kept in solitary confinement, with environmental enrichment; and failure to protect four bears from temperature extremes. The inspector wrote, “The temperature in Billy Joe’s [chimpanzee’s] enclosure ... was 95 degrees with 65 percent humidity levels. ... [Billy Joe] is singly housed and cannot see or hear another nonhuman primate. ... This is not in accordance with currently accepted professional standards. ... The cage was barren except for a basketball. ... One of the bears was observed panting during the inspection. The temperature in the enclosure ... was recorded at 95 degrees, with humidity levels of 63 percent. Within several minutes of entering the enclosure, I began perspiring and felt discomfort.” The inspector noted that foods necessary to provide the bears with a nutritionally complete diet were not available.
August 8, 2001: A deputy found three bears, who had been used in the Kelly Miller Circus during its 2000 tour, malnourished in a trailer near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They were severely emaciated and dehydrated and had bloody paws from pacing across fiberglass flooring. The trainer, Aleksandr Sergeivich Shelkovnikov, was charged with one felony count of cruelty to animals and four misdemeanors. The owner of the animal park where they were transported believes that they were trained using electric shock.
April 13, 2001: A circus goer filed a complaint with the Mountain Home, Arkansas, Police Department after seeing the Kelly Miller elephant handler abuse an elephant. According to the police report, an eyewitness gave this account: “I was standing at the elephant’s side at the Shrine Circus, talking to the handler. The animal was obeying all that he was told. It looked to me like the elephant sneezed. The handler turned around and struck the elephant so hard, it drew blood; [the elephant] let out a sad sound and backed up. It shocked me to see the man treat such an animal with such cruelty.”
June 2000: The Baltimore County Fire Department refused to issue a permit to Kelly Miller because its tent failed to meet state and county inflammability requirements. The circus was forced to cancel performances in Reisterstown, Maryland. January 5, 2000: The USDA cited Kelly Miller for failure to maintain transport trailers in a manner that protects the animals from injury.
April 17, 1998: The USDA cited Kelly Miller for failure to handle animals in a manner that is safe for both the animals and the general public.
October 9, 1997: The USDA cited Kelly Miller for failing to have a plan for veterinary care.
September 1997: In the Chicago area, 470 letters were sent to the Naper Settlement, a sponsor of the Kelly Miller Circus, asking that it discontinue support of the circus because of the mistreatment of its animals. An investigator with Illinois Animal Action witnessed a handler strike an elephant 25 times in a single half-hour while the animal was giving rides to the public.
January 4, 1997: According to an internal USDA document, an elephant named Libby, who is owned by Carson & Barnes Circus, was exposed to Hawthorn Corporation elephants who died of tuberculosis and others who tested positive for the disease. Kelly Miller Circus leases Libby from its sister circus, Carson & Barnes.
March 1996: The USDA cited Kelly Miller Circus for failure to provide the animals with structurally sound enclosures. May 1994: According to an article in the Dayton Daily News, a woman saw a trainer strike an elephant in the face with a rod.
September 1992: The USDA cited Kelly Miller Circus for not having any records of veterinary care.
CIRCUS FACTS:-Every major circus that uses animals has been cited for violating the minimal standards of care set forth in the United States Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
-Animals in circuses spend about 11 months of the year traveling.
-During travel, animals may be caged or chained for long distances and hours, forced to stand in their own waste, in extreme temperatures.
-Standard circus industry training tools used on animals include bullhooks, whips, clubs, and electric prods.
-Animals born in circus “conservation” breeding programs have never been released into the wild.
-From 1994 to 2005, at least 31 elephants have died premature deaths in the circus. Other circus animals who have died in an untimely manner include horses and lions.
Captive elephant and captive feline attacks on humans in the U.S. have resulted in hundreds of injuries, many resulting in death.
-In the wild, elephants live in large, sociable herds and walk up to 25 miles every day. Most other wild animals found in circus settings, including lions and tigers, are also constantly on the move in their native habitats. In the circus, animals spend most of their time in cages or chains.
-Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (which enforces the AWA) have repeatedly ignored obvious physical trauma to animals, eyewitness accounts of mistreatment, and sworn testimony from former circus employees who report abuse of elephants.
-Circuses that feature only human performers are gaining in popularity and provide dazzling, humane, and truly family-friendly entertainment.
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