I am told that the current issue of "Back Yard" carries a statement by Carol Buckley directed to her donors where she again cops a plea regarding Winkie's physical condition.
During my fifty years as man and boy around elephants I have never had or heard of an elephant receiving an injured eye from a mosquito.
I have however, on more than one occasion, known it to happen between two elephants fighting.
I would suggest that inexperience and an attempt to intermingle elephants like Brown's cows would be a more likely explanation for this malady. |
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carol buckley also told the newspapers that she was changing the way the elephants would be handled. On her web site she told a different story and she was only changing "WINKIE" and "FLORA" as they suffer from pdsq whatever. All of these elephants were raised and treated the same way. Its the ones that come after her help that have this strange aflection all of the sudden. Rember "JOANNA" and "SUE"
This is on the tes home page under MEDIA CORRECTIONS to the left of IN MEMORY of JOANNA BURKE. It is printed in red. I have gotten a few e-mails about this artical and where to fine it.
She probably had sore feet too.
You know how I hate to quibble --
Why no "conversing" elephants in the circus? I would love to hear a group of old show elephants cut some jackpots. Even a prepared speech would impress me.
You can't honestly be diagnosed with PTSD unless you also have capacity for humor and other higher order thinking -- and I believe elephants do (think), I just didn't know any could speak real clear English or French.
They should add audio to some of those elecam things, sort of an oral history project -- get at the truth in unguarded moments when the old darlings are just gossiping among themselves. They may know more than they've told so far.
Lotliza
SORE FEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's priceless, Buckles. When my son Eric, who helps me with our elephants here at Hawthorn, asked me how Scott broke his ankle, I told him, I don't know. I broke my ankle one time running from an elephant, but I tripped over the picket line. Being's they use no picket line, it's a mystery to me. Wade Burck
Trivia --
I was wondering what legal or tax advantages would make them eager to open a cemetery. Nothing very surprising in Tennessee land laws except: They may appoint as many day and night watchmen as they deem expedient. Such watchmen, and also their superintendents, gardeners, agents, and gate-keepers on said grounds may take the oath required by the law of constables, exercise all the laws and powers of police officers within said cemetery, and within one hundred yards of such cemetery grounds.
Lotliza
I was wondering why the USDA recently fined a Zoo $10,000 over the accidental death of a baby elephant yet ignores the fatal "accidents" at Jurassic Park.
Political Correctness gone amok!
Doesn't buying land from your vet constitute a conflect of interest as this vet has the ear and eye of the USDA and they rely on her/his word? Looks like a business deal to me. You scratch my back I'll scratch yours. I have also wondered just how long this vet has had this land. Bears looking into. If the USDA can nit pick us, turn about is fair play.
USDA could threaten to take the elephants away from the zoo if they did not pay up. As they now had a place to take them to. "tes" What could they threaten tes with after all that hoopla about how great they "USDA" told the world it was. Much much egg on face
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