Time to bring down the curtain on animal shows

ON NOV 22, a senior citizen in Nanyang, Henan province, was bitten by a tiger shut in the cage of a circus while trying to feed it. On Saturday, another tiger wounded two children in Hongdong county, Shanxi province. Thepaper.cn comments:

Fortunately, the three concerned were only lightly injured. Yet the two cases show that circus animals are not to be considered pets.

Tigers and lions are dangerous animals. Some argue that circuses train them, but they still retain their natural instincts. Besides, many circuses beat the animals while training them, this makes them even more aggressive.