{"id":23999,"date":"2015-10-22T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T07:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23999"},"modified":"2015-10-22T07:35:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T07:35:55","slug":"lions-in-circus-and-chipperfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/lions-in-circus-and-chipperfield\/","title":{"rendered":"LIONS in circus and Chipperfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Holden good on her<br \/>\nThis morning yesterday<br \/>\nConfronted Thomas Chipperfield<br \/>\nWhose big cat show they say<br \/>\nIs on the road is travelling<br \/>\nAround the great UK<br \/>\nBut there is nothing united<br \/>\nAbout this pastime<br \/>\nI can say<\/p>\n<p>Big wild cats in beast wagons<br \/>\nIn cages is an affront<br \/>\nIts all about The business model<br \/>\nAnd look we saw a stunt<br \/>\nHe went to kiss the captive soul<br \/>\nAnd  all he got was pique<br \/>\nThis cat doesn&#8217;t love him<br \/>\nWho could love this freak<\/p>\n<p>These are so wild animals<br \/>\nSocial animals too<br \/>\nLiving in the wilderness<br \/>\nWith their families<br \/>\nSo its true<br \/>\nCapturing them<br \/>\nAnd tormenting them<br \/>\nIn a circus has to be<br \/>\nLikened to a prison<br \/>\nWhen they want to be free<\/p>\n<p>He says they are not machines<br \/>\nBut do not see the world<br \/>\nAs we do talk for yourself mate<br \/>\nWhere they have been hurled<br \/>\nInto an Environment<br \/>\nThat is stressful every day<br \/>\nNo live food just chunks of meat<br \/>\nThey are made to pay<\/p>\n<p>They are made to entertain<br \/>\nThe morons who would see<br \/>\nWho pay their money to watch this<br \/>\nWho cant feel the cruelty<br \/>\nTaken in by the circus crowd<br \/>\nWho demonstrate the pain<br \/>\nLions don&#8217;t Do this on their own<br \/>\nThat is why they train<\/p>\n<p>Chipperfield is passed his sell by date<br \/>\nAnd now he needs to go<br \/>\nAmanda Holden and Fleur Dawes<br \/>\nFor once they made a show<br \/>\nWhy, they had to apologise<br \/>\nThe need was never there<br \/>\nThe Lion gave us his answer<br \/>\nLiving out of his  despair<\/p>\n<p>Circus and all animals<br \/>\nWild and others too<br \/>\nShould never be in circuses<br \/>\nWith all their travelling crew<br \/>\nThe three tory toffs who opposed the ban<br \/>\nShould see the cruelty here<br \/>\nThe pain and suffering clearly spending<br \/>\nHours and hours of fear<\/p>\n<p>If anyone should apologise<br \/>\nIts the circus let me say<br \/>\nThey export this cruelty<br \/>\nEvery single day<br \/>\nWild animals are wild and should<br \/>\nBe in a sanctuary<br \/>\nNot in a zoo for goodness sake<br \/>\nThat not a place to be<\/p>\n<p>Keep profit out of animals lives<br \/>\nFor when its ugly head<br \/>\nIs raised without a union<br \/>\nDown the road we are led<br \/>\nImagine these wild animals<br \/>\nAll behind locked doors<br \/>\nLet out to do stilted tricks<br \/>\nFor moderate applause<\/p>\n<p>Its hell for them<br \/>\nAnd we the public<br \/>\nOught to be more aware<br \/>\nThe only trainer in the UK<br \/>\nSo retire him on a prayer<\/p>\n<p>The Lion he had the last word<br \/>\nHe roared as if to say<br \/>\nCome on just come closer to me<br \/>\nThen I will make you pay<br \/>\nFor the vile life you have given me<br \/>\nFor the horrible food I eat<br \/>\nFor the capture and the purgatory<br \/>\nYou scatter at my feet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Holden good on her This morning yesterday Confronted Thomas Chipperfield Whose big cat show they say Is on the road is travelling Around the great UK But there is nothing united About this pastime I can say Big wild &hellip; 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