While visiting Thailand I booked tickets for a show called Siam Niramit not knowing the abuse I was about to witness.

What I saw horrified me and still haunts me. Animals were tied up for tourists to take pictures with. I saw elephants being stabbed with my very own eyes! They were crying out in pain. The handlers had sharp objects in their hands and would stab the elephants to get them to pose for pictures and take bananas from people. They did this sneakily and I only noticed it because days prior I visited an elephant sanctuary that explained this practice. 

Tourists were invited to go on stage to take pictures with the clearly frightened elephant. 

During the show they chased goats and chickens across the stage and also dragged a water buffalo across the stage by its nose. A baby elephant was forced to do tricks and was being ridden by people. 

The entire show was horrifying. No animal should be treated this way. They can have a perfectly good show without the use of animals. My goal is to get enough signatures for the show to notice and hopefully give up the use of animals in its show.