They pay with their lives…Ĭircuses should be banned to have animals!Īnd the reason we should remember her and any other elephant that have suffered and still do, is that it needs to stop. Remember that this is the reality of every Circus elephant. The price of freedom from the circus was steep. Finally, she fell, very slowly, onto her side. The shooting went on for several more seconds. She was on her knees and could not right herself. She rocked her head violently from side to side. She slowly fell over, then awkwardly stood back up. The police were called out and started shooting at Tyke with rifles. She charged at bystanders and smashed cars as she made her way through several city blocks. She was disoriented and no idea where she was. Circus staff tried to beat her back, but no bullhook or whip could stop the rage that had been building inside her for two decades. At an afternoon performance at the Neal Blaidsell Center in Honolulu, it all came to an end…Īt some point during the show, she veered from the script. She could no longer take the pain and the confinement. She was tired of being beaten, whipped, and kicked. She had been in the circus nearly 20 years. In August of 1994 Tyke reached a breaking point. Only God knows what punishment she received when brought back to the Circus.
Hawthorn should have retired her right then and there, as she was an obvious threat to the public. In July she tried to escape again she was unsuccessful. She tried to escape during a circus performance.
The day she died she was as usual performing for Hawthorne circus which have a long record of animal cruelty violations. By April of 1993, she had enough. They wanted to hurt her and frighten her so she would be obedient. They struck her in her most sensitive areas: behind her ears, on top of her toes, in back of her knees, and around her anus. Circus trainers hit her repeatedly with a sharp metal “bullhook,” which made her cry out in pain. She was shipped to a circus. There, she was confined to a concrete room and beaten over and over, to break her spirit. Tyke was trapped and taken away from her family when she was a baby. It took nearly 2 hours for her to die there on the street in terrible pain, lonely and afraid… Tyke was a female Elephant born 1974 and died Augafter being shoot by the police 86 times.
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