Sign the Bob Barker/PAWS Petition
Asking Film Production Company to
Stop Using Live Elephant!
The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and Bob Barker have teamed together on a petition asking FJ Productions to reconsider use of a live elephant in its current production of Saving Flora, a film about an elephant fleeing a circus. In real life, the elephant, Tai, has been subjected to the same training methods used in abusive circuses, and has even been made to perform in circuses!
Sign this petition urging FJ Productions to replace Tai with a computer-generated elephant in the filming of Saving Flora!
Have Trunk Will Travel, the California-based company that owns Tai, was caught on camera
during a training session in which handlers forcefully struck and hooked elephants with a bullhook - a weapon resembling a fireplace poker that is designed to inflict pain and punishment (click here to view video). Tai's owners publicly defended this outrageous practice, and have consistently opposed legislation to better protect captive elephants, including the California bullhook ban, which goes into effect in January 2018.
"There is no place for animal cruelty in entertainment," stated Emmy Award-winning television host Bob Barker. "Today we have the technology to replace live animals in film productions, so there is no excuse for using live elephants or other wild animals, who are cruelly trained to perform."
PAWS, Bob Barker, elephant sanctuaries, national animal protection organizations, and conservationists have issued an open letter to FJ Productions, urging the company to replace Tai with a computer-generated elephant. Read the letter here and then sign the petition!
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