Elephant training

Negative reinforcement programmes
Are used
For 8 to 10 thousand pounders
If they are not abused
There is no way on gods earth
They ever will do
The daf’t circus tricks
And That clearly is true

Bull hooks electric prods
Confinement too
Withdrawing water
And food
It’s not new

A lack of humility
And compassion here
As they are tortured
And made to feel fear

An elephants skin is sensitive to
Digging and poking and whacking
They do
hurt
Every time and the threat even they
Respond
who is fond?
Of torture each day

What we see here
are humans who should
Be crushed by these elephants
That would be good
But NO these wild animals
They have empathy
They take it all sadly
It’s the memory

Of having been beaten
over and again
That memory lodges inside their brain
Who wants to get clouted nobody does
And so they go for a quiet life with not too much buzz

Sticking and poking and beating away
These so called trainers need Taking away
Or put under their feet to be crushed and forlorn
Really I wish they had never been born

Pachyderms need our assistance today
They are big they are strong and they have a big say
They let a vile bully control them when he
Has a measly prod
they could kill him instantly
But it’s all going In to their vast memory
And when they do crack he will be history

We see it all over the world and we know
That elephants take it and at some point
They show
Their contempt for the cruelty
It means they will
Be shot they know that
And one day they will kill

Have the compassion in our hearts to say
CIrcus NOW it should be banned from today
Trainers are criminals that’s what they are
They beat and they whip and they prod and they scar
And you may not know all the things that they use
Wonder dust theatrical make up peruse
The circus back stage these pancake make up a ruse
When their are wounds are resulting from all the abuse

To such an extent that the wounds they would show
That’s when it’s caked on so you do not know

Then every elephant walks 50 miles
But now in the circus confinement it riles
Elephants no exercise they feel bad
And as the days pass incredibly sad
Then on those nights when they are on show
No food and no water
In case they may go

Shit in the ring or pee and thus stain
The ringside oh dear so they go through more pain

A circus abusing wild animals should

Be closed down at once and that would be good
We do have to realise once and for all
That this is the animals actual last call