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Write to Prince Rainier and Help Save Elephants' Lives

Every year, Prince Rainier of Monaco hosts the Monte Carlo International Circus Festival. It is an internationally sponsored event that includes the suffering of animals, drawing individual acts from circuses all over Europe and Asia. The circus is viewed as a "glamorous," high-society event, and it attracts lots of celebrities. But, animals forced to perform in the festival are confined to small cages and trucked in all weather extremes for days or even weeks along winding roads from all over Europe and Asia to Monaco.

The circus is no fun for animals. Without the use of force, including whips, chains, muzzles, and bullhooks, it is impossible to train strong and naturally independent animals to perform circus tricks. Social, intelligent elephants are kept chained, unable to take even a step between acts, and they are "broken" by being beaten. Bears are usually muzzled, declawed, and defanged and can have their front paws burned to train them to stand on their hind legs. They "dance" because they remember a stick being smashed on their toes. The big cats are naturally afraid of fire, and a whip must be used to force them to jump through flaming hoops.

Prince Rainier is directly involved with the organization of the International Circus Festival. Please ask Prince Rainier to keep animals out of the circus this year by completing the following small project.

1. Paste a playing card onto the front of a 5"x7" index card. Address the postcard to:

His Royal Highness
Prince Rainier
The Palace of Monaco
BP518
Monaco-Ville
Monaco 98015

2. Write on the back of the index card:

Dear Prince Rainier,
The circus is cruel to animals. Their housing and training causes them to suffer. Please don’t gamble with elephants’ lives-- allow only human performers in the International Circus this year.

If you like, you can be creative with what you write, but please be sure to include the sentence: "Please don’t gamble with elephants’ lives."

3. Take your postcard to the post office with 60 cents and say you want it air-mailed overseas to Monaco.

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