http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/08/14/elephant-ride/ Our Family Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/08/14/elephant-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Reuben Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:11:22 +0000 http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/08/14/elephant-ride/#comment-228 Those elephants are hideously overburdened and the one in the first picture clearly has a badly damaged knee. Regardless, elephants are wild animals and not meant to be giving rides to selfish tourists. In order to give these rides for your pleasure, they were stolen from their families in the wild, broken (google the term "training crush" if you want to learn) through violence and domination, and continuously threatened with pain if they do not follow the orders given. Please learn more about the horrors that humans inflict on these wild beasts, and do not participate in such activities ever again. There is no difference between the elephants and the van as far as the way they are being regarded by the people - but elephants are intelligent creatures who feel pain and fear and sadness. Those elephants are hideously overburdened and the one in the first picture clearly has a badly damaged knee.
Regardless, elephants are wild animals and not meant to be giving rides to selfish tourists. In order to give these rides for your pleasure, they were stolen from their families in the wild, broken (google the term “training crush” if you want to learn) through violence and domination, and continuously threatened with
pain if they do not follow the orders given. Please learn more about the horrors that humans inflict on these wild beasts, and do not participate in such activities ever again. There is no difference between the elephants and the van as far as the way they are being regarded by the people – but elephants are intelligent creatures who feel pain and fear and sadness.

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