{"id":30261,"date":"2016-11-09T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=30261"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:06:06","slug":"elephant-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/11\/elephant-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negative reinforcement programmes<br \/>\nAre used<br \/>\nFor 8 to 10 thousand pounders<br \/>\nIf they are not abused<br \/>\nThere is no way on gods earth<br \/>\nThey ever will do<br \/>\nThe daf&#8217;t circus tricks<br \/>\nAnd That clearly is true<\/p>\n<p>Bull hooks electric prods<br \/>\nConfinement too<br \/>\nWithdrawing water<br \/>\nAnd food<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not new<\/p>\n<p>A lack of humility<br \/>\nAnd compassion here<br \/>\nAs they are tortured<br \/>\nAnd made to feel fear<\/p>\n<p>An elephants skin is sensitive to<br \/>\nDigging and poking and whacking<br \/>\nThey do<br \/>\nhurt<br \/>\nEvery time and the threat even they<br \/>\nRespond<br \/>\nwho is fond?<br \/>\nOf torture each day<\/p>\n<p>What we see here<br \/>\nare humans who should<br \/>\nBe crushed by these elephants<br \/>\nThat would be good<br \/>\nBut NO these wild animals<br \/>\nThey have empathy<br \/>\nThey take it all sadly<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the memory<\/p>\n<p>Of having been beaten<br \/>\nover and again<br \/>\nThat memory lodges inside their brain<br \/>\nWho wants to get clouted nobody does<br \/>\nAnd so they go for a quiet  life with not too much buzz<\/p>\n<p>Sticking and poking and beating away<br \/>\nThese so called trainers need Taking  away<br \/>\nOr put under their feet to be crushed and forlorn<br \/>\nReally I wish they had never been born<\/p>\n<p>Pachyderms need our assistance today<br \/>\nThey are big they are strong and they have a big say<br \/>\nThey let a vile bully control them when he<br \/>\nHas a measly prod<br \/>\nthey could kill him instantly<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s all going In to their vast memory<br \/>\nAnd when they do crack he will be history<\/p>\n<p>We see it all over the world and we know<br \/>\nThat elephants take it and at some point<br \/>\nThey show<br \/>\nTheir contempt for the cruelty<br \/>\nIt means they will<br \/>\nBe shot  they know that<br \/>\nAnd one day they will kill<\/p>\n<p>Have the compassion in our hearts to say<br \/>\nCIrcus NOW it should be banned from today<br \/>\nTrainers are criminals that&#8217;s what they are<br \/>\nThey beat and they whip and they prod and they scar<br \/>\nAnd you may not know all the things that they use<br \/>\nWonder dust theatrical make up peruse<br \/>\nThe circus back stage these pancake make up a ruse<br \/>\nWhen their are wounds are resulting from all the abuse<\/p>\n<p>To such an extent that the wounds they would  show<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s when it&#8217;s caked on so you do not know<\/p>\n<p>Then every elephant walks 50 miles<br \/>\nBut now in the circus confinement it riles<br \/>\nElephants no exercise they feel bad<br \/>\nAnd as the days pass incredibly sad<br \/>\nThen on those nights when they are on show<br \/>\nNo food and no water<br \/>\nIn case they may go<\/p>\n<p>Shit in the ring or pee and thus stain<br \/>\nThe ringside oh dear so they go through more pain<\/p>\n<p>A circus abusing wild animals should<\/p>\n<p>Be closed down at once and that would be good<br \/>\nWe do have to realise once and for all<br \/>\nThat this is the animals actual last call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t circus tricks And That clearly is true Bull hooks electric prods &hellip; 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