Monday, March 07, 2011

From Josip Marcan #2


IMG_1765, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 3/07/2011 06:14:00 AM

8 comments:

jerry digney said...

Dumb question: with all the elephants Ringling has owned/owns (remember the 70s when we had three herds--two on the road and one at circus world??), why do they need to contract an outside act?

07 March, 2011 15:51
Frank Ferrante said...

Jerry,
Could the answer be liability? Plausible deny-ability?

Just a thought ~frank

07 March, 2011 20:23
Frank Ferrante said...

Another dumb question, this one is for Buckles, but anyone can answer... What ever became of all those elephants??? They can't ALL be at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation, can they? ~frank

07 March, 2011 20:29
Buckles said...

That was almost 35 years ago and a large number have died.
Yet today between the shows, those in retirement and the newborns at the Stud Farm Kenny Feld is probably feeding nearly as many today as he did then.

07 March, 2011 22:20
Buckles said...

My wife just asked me to compliment the ladies doing the head stands.
She said it's refreshing to see something unique much less in triplicate.

07 March, 2011 23:18
dpowhitetiger said...

How about a Kenneth Feld Congradualtions for going the extra mile for keeping elephants in the circus....Yes, it does look good to see the three girls doing head stands...

08 March, 2011 15:37
Anonymous said...

TO DPOWHITETIGER!

RIGHT ON!

I agree with you 100% on Congratulations to Kenneth Feld for keeping the elephants in the Circus.

Not just the cost of caring for probably over 50 elephants (counting the breeding farm), but for the years of litigation defending RBBB"s elephants in the courts and in state, city, and county legislatures.

If he had given up, that would have been the END.

All the smaller owners could not have afforded the time and money to wage those battles.

08 March, 2011 19:58
FRANK CURRY said...

TO DPOWHITETIGER!

RIGHT ON!

I agree with you 100% on Congratulations to Kenneth Feld for keeping the elephants in the Circus!

There is no telling how much it cost him to care for probably over 50 elephants (counting the breeding farm) all these years,

Add to that the cost of defending RBBB's elephants in the courts from all the accusations and lawsuits and in countless state, city, and county legislatures from so called "animal rights" campaigns.

If Kenneth had given up the fight, that would have been the END.

Because the smaller owners could not have afforded the time and money needed to defend their elephants.

08 March, 2011 20:15

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