Ask the Louisville Zoo to Stop Using Bullhooks on Elephants  

I am asking everyone here at myLot to please join me. PETA has asked the Louisville Zoo to make a New Years resolution to abandon its bullhooks and circus-style training methods for elephants and switch to a safer, more humane method of elephant handling called "protected contact." With protected contact, keepers do not use any form of corporal punishment, and a safety barrier always separates the elephants from the keepers.

A bullhook is a long, heavy rod with a steel point and a hook at one end Keepers jab bullhooks into the most sensitive parts of an elephant's body, such as behind the ears, inside the ear or mouth, in and around the anus, and in the tender spots under the chin and around the feet.

Please contact the LouisvilleZoo.com to express your concern about the cruel use of bullhooks to train and manage elephants and demand that they switch immediately to protected-contact method.

The above information was gathered from PETA and you can find out more by going to getactive.peta.org/campaign/bullhooks_louisville_zoo

I live here in Louisville and have sent letters to the Mayor Jerry Amberson at Louisvilleky.gov This is important. Please join me.

Have a Happy New Year.