Buckles Blog: Mac MacDonald #8

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Scan11677, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"Dondi" and Mac 3/19/79.

Jim A. said...: Wasn't there something about Mac would have the elephant hold the one-foot stand until he counted to 17?

(This is the kind of knowledge that really impresses my wife.); 17 May, 2009 16:08
Buckles said...: He told me that when he first trained Opal for the trick, she held it for 25 seconds.
Ten years later he told me to count to 17. Whether he considered that to be the most humane length of time or whether that was about all the time she would tolerate from me remains unknown.; 17 May, 2009 16:32
Chic Silber said...: Didn't Phil & Fran Schacht do

some barnyard comedy routine

with this elephant in the 70s

Chic; 17 May, 2009 21:12
Buckles said...: Mac liked Phil and Fran and trained "Dondi" for them.; 18 May, 2009 07:35

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