Training Methods
We don't Agree
Leann and Kelly (who live in Sumatra) are shown on an elephant holding a pick that is used to train elephants.
Leann and Kelly (who live in Sumatra) are shown on an elephant holding a pick that is used to train elephants.
Dear Ashley Willis and Karen Kaczorowski,
Hi!!! My name is Hanvi. I think it is very cruel how the trainers treated the poor elephants. I mean, beatings and starvation!! I have some questions for you.
1) Have the elephants ever died because of the harsh treatment??
2) Don't the elephants hate the trainers for the way they treated them???
Well that's for now.
Sincerely,
Hanvi
T his letter is from a girl named Kim. I have some comments about your essays. This is not toward you though, it is toward the elephant trainers. I also have some questions.
1.) The way they train elephants is very cruel and that is the #1 reason that they have killed people.
2.) Why do they have to treat them like that?
3.) How do the elephants work for them?
4.) Have the elephants ever got very ill or seriously hurt from the beatings and starvation?
5.) It is unfair for the trainers to treat the elephants like that. Instead of beating them and starving them, they should give them treats and sort of bribe them.
6.) Is that how they tame elephants for the circus?
7.) Is this treatment used on other animals as well?
8.) How do the trainers beat the elephants without making them go mad and kill?
I hope you feel the same way.
Your Key Pal,
Kim
Dear Ashley Willis,and Karen Kaczorowski,
My name is Ashley. I disagree with the trainers. The elephants are almost endangered. Do you think they deserve that?? I would not even be a trainer if I had to do that?? Here are some questions.
1. Do they have to train them that way for the circus??
2. Can they find out some other way??
3. What will happen if the elephants learn from their trainers how to beat people?? Starve people??
4. I don't mind if they use the elephant for a bulldozer, but to beat them. Don't you think so??
5. Will you write me some questions involving research on the elephants???
Your key pal,
Ashley