Live animal mascots should be banned

[Catherine]

Sports teams like to have mascots. Usually they are a human in a ridiculous animal costume. Often enough  however, teams still use a live animal as their mascot. 
This puts the animal through a great deal of stress. In cases where two teams meet who both have animal mascots there can be some danger in the interaction between the two mascots.
One Green Planet has a petition to stop the practice. If it could even be banned in one country, the ban might spread.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environme...l-mascots/

The idea of mascots seems a little silly anyhow. I won't even comment on some sports teams. However I will say that forcing an animal to be part of a noisy public sporting event is unfair to the animal. Whatever else sports teams do, they should give up the idea of a live animal mascot.