[Rebelbase]

I googled "Toby Tyler Circus". There were some shady results:

"In Washington, DC, Toby Tyler's Circus ran out of money and abandoned two truckloads of animals in a parking lot in Virginia. When local humane authorities discovered the abandoned animals, many had died from heat exhaustion"

"05/21/92, Richard Garden, who owned Toby Tyler Circus and United Funding, was accused of cheating charities and deceiving donors across the country"

"TOBY TYLER CIRCUS During a show, two circus workers threw
water on a chimpanzee named Tyrone the Terrible to make him behave ferociously ... "

"... As recently as 1988, a Maryland judge ordered Dick Garden, owner of the Toby Tyler Circus, to pay $1.7 million in civil fines and $615,000 in restitution to ... "

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Toby+Tyler+Circus%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N

[Paul Atreides]

When local humane authorities discovered the abandoned animals, many had died from heat exhaustion"

How horrible. I guess it was too much of a strain on them to pick up the phone and anonymously report that they had left the animals there.