Friday, August 22, 2014

More Cat Acts #5


2 comments:

Harry Kingston said...

A great shot of Pat Anthony in his cage of fury.
I saw Pat on circus Vargas and what a show it was with all those cats ready to eat him alive.
Harry in Texas

Roger Smith said...

Pat was in the generation before my time in Thousand Oaks. The teachers who schooled him were still there to mentor me, except for one I still wish I had known--John C. "Chubby" Guilfoyle, Clyde Beatty's 2nd teacher. Benny Bennett said, "Chubby was awfully hard on Pat, but Pat stuck it out, never said a word, and left here a finished wild animal trainer." In later years, when Chubby was struggling with dire poverty, Pat went beyond his means to bring Chubby to Riverside and pay him to help with breaking.