Who’d have guessed this would happen near Baraboo, home of the original Ringling Winter Headquarters, the Circus World Museum and the International Clown Hall of Fame?
Last night, June 7, 2012, Dane County became the first Wisconsin community to ban the exhibition of elephants for amusement or entertainment. The County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance amendment banning such exhibitions by a vote of 23 to 9.
No new elephant acts shall be allowed at the county’s auditorium or exhibition center. Current county contracts with the Zor Shriners, who bring the George Carden circus to Madison every year, however, shall be honored until the final contract runs out in 2020. (allanimalsblog.org)
To read the rest of the Alliance for Animals’ view of this story, click here.
