“Its pretty obvious from many of the pro-circus comments here that these people are just making excuses for their own selfishness! Circuses which have animals performing for the supposed "entertainment" are cruel as Bill Travers has expounded often. If you are of the mentality that finds animals abuse entertaining can't you just stay in and watch Gordon Ramsay instead? As for hippies many of us antis hold down professional jobs although you don't have to have a degree to see that only people with very small minds could find a dancing animal entertaining.
There are some good ideas on here though. Yes, lets get rid of pets if that means that selfish humans cannot go out and get an animal (presumably for their entertainment again) on a whim and then people like me who take in other people's unwanted pets could have the time to take a holiday! In the meantime perhaps wone of the animal circus supporters could enlighten about what they find so entertaining about watching a captive animal forced to perform stupid tricks?”

“Wow, you are one bunch of scary people in Scunthorpe - you'd be dangerous if you had more than one brain cell between you. It's like stepping back in time reading some of your disgraceful comments - and you seem to think you're amusing - oh dear (apologies to the more evolved amongst you). I've never been so ashamed of my home town!”

“omg how pathetic? having an opinion i dont min but saying nasty things over the internet is pathetic. im 14 and im more grown up than you! you say animal rights people need to get a life, why be so pathetic and say awful things over the internet? stop the cruel circus!”

“Ban animal rights protestors. We could even test shampoo and perfume on them, god knows they need it.”

“We'd all like to see those wonderful dancing bears again.”

“What next ban pet dogs, cats, fish etc ?
Get over it i bet you all went as kids and enjoyed it.”

“Wow I cant believe how ignorant some of you are...No actually I can , theres plenty of idiots in this world.

Circus'es are no place for animals

Duh”

“How glad I am to have left a country where there are so many do gooders and others who just can't keep their nose out of some-one else's business.
It's great to be in Australia, the only country in the world where you can legally eat the National Emblem.
Come in Skippy and let's take your coat off, you're staying for dinner.”

“We need animals, what else are we supposed to test drugs and makeup on?

hahaha”

“well done guys for standing up to these idiots... but as someone previously said, you shouldn't expect much from the scunthorpe lot... first i heard of this circus was actully last year when the guy attacked the bbc reporter. one hell of a violent chap eh! i'd be interested to hear if they're coming back up here anytime soon and how can i find out if i want to get involved? never been on a protest like this before myself but doesn't surprise me at all what you were saying how the circus chavs go round egging people's cars to stir up stuff. how immature. this cruelty should be stopped, it's sick and unnecessary, quite an embarassment to this country. thought we was progressive ha!!”