PETA Demands Necropsy of Dead Siegfried & Roy Elephant

PETA is also asking Feld Entertainment to stop capitalizing on elephants' suffering and to pledge that Gildah's grossly substandard living quarters will not be used again to house an elephant. Elephant experts concur that Gildah was denied the most basic need of all female elephants: companionship. Female elephants are highly social animals, and Gildah's solitary confinement at The Mirage was the most psychologically cruel treatment that could have been inflicted on her. Feld Entertainment ignored repeated requests to allow Gildah to retire to a sanctuary, where she could have spent her remaining days in comfort with others of her own kind, exploring vast rolling hills and forests, roaming hundreds of acres, playing in a pond, and foraging on lush vegetation.

On August 26, a Virginia judge ordered Feld Entertainment's attorneys to pay PETA more than $51,000 in sanctions for misconduct.

Read more about the plight of elephants in captivity.

P!nk's Christmas Wish: Freedom for Siegfried and Roy Elephant

Pop star P!nk has one wish this Christmas: to get Siegfried & Roy's 55-year-old elephant, Gildah, out of the Mirage Hotel and Casino, where she has been confined since Roy was attacked in October.

"With the holidays upon us, 'peace on Earth' seems out of reach for much of the world this year, but won't you please grant it to one pathetic, old, lonely elephant on the Vegas strip?" P!nk pleads in a letter faxed to the duo today.

P!nk hopes the holiday spirit will prevail upon Siegfried & Roy to retire Gildah to a sanctuary, where she could forage through hundreds of acres of lush vegetation, play in the pond, and live out at least some of her life as Nature intended-with her own kind.

Join P!nk in asking for Gildah's retirement. Please send polite letters to Siegfried & Roy and to the show's owner, Kenneth Feld, urging them to send Gildah to the Performing Animal Welfare Society's sanctuary or The Elephant Sanctuary.

Print and distribute copies of this leaflet to encourage others to write to the Mirage Hotel, asking that Gildah be retired to a sanctuary.

Siegfried & Roy
Siegfried & Roy Public Relations
4187 Pleasant Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89108
702-895-9941
702-838-4685 (fax)
srprexec@aol.com
SecretGarden@mirage.com

Bernie Yuman, Siegfried & Roy Manager
Feld Entertainment
2275 Corporate Circle Dr. #210
Henderson, NV 89074
702-258-0111
702-258-0116 (fax)
Bernie@bernieyumanmanagement.com

Kenneth Feld
Feld Entertainment
8607 Westwood Center Dr.
Vienna, VA 22182
703-448-4000
703-448-4100 (fax)
Information@feldinc.com

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