Giving hope to captive animals

Your support will help us free more animals from the misery of captivity.
   
 
 
 

Without PETA, Ben would still be trapped here. Others like him need your help.

photo of Ben
 
 
PETA Member 2019
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Member ID: 903758554
 
 

Dear Aaaaaaa,

For years, Ben spent day after day behind the bars of a minuscule, virtually barren enclosure, with little to do except beg tourists for peanuts. Severe, untreated facial lesions scarred his chronically inflamed corneas, permanently impairing his vision, and arthritis made it painful for him to move.

Right now, animals exploited and abused for entertainment need help from compassionate people like you.

PETA advocated hard to rescue Ben from Tregembo Animal Park, the decrepit North Carolina roadside zoo where he was imprisoned. And after years of complaints, inspections, citations, and ultimately a lawsuit, he and another bear named Bogey were finally moved to a vast, serene sanctuary in Colorado.

There, Ben receives expert veterinary treatment for his ailments while both bears can roam, forage, splash in ponds, and even hibernate this winter—possibly for the first time in their lives. They'll never again be put on display and exploited for the entertainment of gawking tourists.

So far, PETA has rescued 72 bears—including Ben and Bogey—from a lifetime of captivity and abuse, and we're determined to help many more who are suffering right now. But we need your help to do all that we can for animals in 2019.

Thanks to the determination of compassionate people like you, we're working hard to free animals condemned to suffer for cruel entertainment—and together, we can accomplish even more this year:

  • We'll target notorious roadside zoos where animals like Ben and Bogey are abused, neglected, and denied crucial veterinary care—and push them to release captive animals to accredited sanctuaries for the retirement that they deserve.
  • We'll persuade venues not to host animal circuses and live-animal displays and encourage other states to follow New Jersey's compassionate example by enacting bans on wild-animal exhibitions.
  • We'll inspire more tourists and travel companies to shun elephant rides, marine abusement parks, and other cruel attractions.

Thank you for your compassion and support.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

 

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