Additionally as you saw there is infliction from weapons on the tigers and the camels and the zebras. As far as Public Safety i have witnessed san jose zebras breaking free and camels breaking loose and i want to say as far as education goes these circus tricks dont teach us anything about who the animals truly are. They perpetuate a gross and false image about who the animals are and doesnt teach us about them and i applaud you for introducing this legislation. Thank you very much. My name is terry mad lock and born and raised in San Francisco. I spent my whole life in eric mars district. Im a high school and college drop out. I always wanted to be a zoologist and never made it so im a volunteer at the zoo and joe is my boss and im not a representative or spokesperson for the zoo. I support this legislation because animal cute cruelty makes me sick and many of them involve [inaudible] and there arent many left in the wild and to them abuse side sickening and i know its terrible for ch
Issues concerning Animal Welfare i guess. I was moved to come here to speak today because i am in full support of what is being proposed. I am just surprised to me this is my personal opinion that public entertainment and amusement reads to me zoos which i was trying to many years ago become just a rescue zoo but the powers that be didnt happen, but in my mind on a lesser degree not cruelty but ongoing policy of entertainment and amusement is what zoos are at least our zoo is about and again thats a side line but i do fully support this legislation and i am glad that you are proposing it. Thank you very much. Thank you and if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak on item 1 if you can please come up. If not i will ask the chair to close Public Comment on this item. Excuse me supervisor. Oh i just want to say there are no more speakers so i wanted to close Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Thank you for everyone that came out to speak on this ite
Good afternoon. My name is daffy lang and a lifelong San Francisco resident and representing the animal Legal Defense fund. I want to thank supervisor tang, wiener and yee for sponsoring the legislation. When it comes to handles these animals for entertainment abuse is the rule, not the exception. Handlers embed the sharp hook into the soft tissue behind elephant ears and other sensitive spots and under the chins and tigers are whipped and beaten and man are in tiny cages and this ordinance is in the best interest of Public Safety and animals that are subjected to abuse are prone to unpredictable dangerous behavior that has a serious risk of injury and death and while weapons can inflict serious pain on animals they cant control a elephant or tiger that attacks and we applaud the supervisors for taking the lead on this issue and San Francisco should join the other california cities that have banned Exotic Animal performing acts. Thank you. Good afternoon everybody. My name is Krista He
Different places around california are only required to have extremely small spaces for their animals to live, up to 3,000 square feet for a tiger for the entire life. 300 square feet for the tiger to life and many things the people dont see when the tiger comes for a performance. The opposition fights to keep the standards so low and the public that supports that thing is much more aware of what happens. The animal trade is another disgusting part of the wild animal business, not just the ones that come to the city, but the ones that are bought, sold and traded that are considered surplus, so if anybody has any questions i have been doing this a long time and i might be able to answer some. Thank you very much. I think that you have been a really great supporter of this legislation. I really support your efforts and what youre doing. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon committee members. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you. I am captain cindy michado and the directo
Cruelty but ongoing policy of entertainment and amusement is what zoos are at least our zoo is about and again thats a side line but i do fully support this legislation and i am glad that you are proposing it. Thank you very much. Thank you and if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak on item 1 if you can please come up. If not i will ask the chair to close Public Comment on this item. Excuse me supervisor. Oh i just want to say there are no more speakers so i wanted to close Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Thank you for everyone that came out to speak on this item. Again there is more work ahead of this and so appreciative because it was really all of you that brought it to us and why were here today so with they just want to encourage my colleagues to support the legislation. Thank you very much. Thank you supervisor. So colleagues is there a motion . I make a motion to approve. Can we do that without objection . Thank you. [gavel] sorry su