You did a good job of making the animals seem human. She's in a cage. Devil I don't really know what to say. Wow, so powerful, you put so much emotion in to this shortpiece. I liked this.
Some people take pain quietly and others lash out.
The only part I could really consider melodramatic, in that light, is the last paragraph. This was cool. I was never much into circuses as a kid. Clowns are the creepiest things alive. I think it's commercialism that holds more to be blamed.