Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Elephant Dogs #8

Posted by Buckles at 6/25/2013 05:43:00 AM

4 comments:

Bob Cline said...

Would this be Max Gruber?

25 June, 2013 06:21
Buckles said...

This is Bill Green posing with an act Barbara's mother trained.

25 June, 2013 07:26
BARBARA WOODCOCK said...

MY MOTHER TRAINED ALL OF "BILL GREEN'S ANIMALS." HE OWNED "BILL GREEN'S WILD ANIMAL FARM" IN FAIRLEE, VT. MY MOTHER "LALEA LEOTTA RAY" TRAINED HIS ELEPHANT "QUEENIE", A BEAUTIFUL PICK OUT ZEBRA......A SIX LAMA LIBERTY ACT......A WATER SKIING ELEPHANT.....AND THE "ZEBRA"......TO BE CONTINUED......Barbara.......

25 June, 2013 07:48
BARBARA WOODCOCK said...

AS I WAS STARTING TO SAY THE "ZEBRA" WAS TRAINED TO PICK OUT NUMBERS..."QUEENIE," AND.... A 'DALMATION DOG,"....(don't recall his name.)....ALL THREE DID AN ACT TOGETHER...... LIKE THE ONES OF YEARS GONE BY.....(like the one I worked in when I first started working elephants.) MY MOTHER TRAINED.....ALL....OF.....BILL GREEN'S ANIMALS..... BUT SHE WASN'T ALWAYS GIVEN CREDIT FOR HER TRAINING.........THEY ANOUNCED MY MOTHER AS "MADAM RAY"......MY MOTHER ALSO TRAINED SOME SMALLER ANIMALS.....A SPIDER MONKEY.....A RHESUS MONKEY..... A SMALL DONKEY.....AND SOME DOGS.....NOT A DOG ACT, BUT SPECIALTY TRICKS.....FRONT LEG WALKS ETC. HIGH DIVE DOG AND MONKEY.....(the monkey loved the high dive.)( IF HE GOT LOOSE HE WOULD RUN TO THE LADDER & JUMP OFF.) MY MOM HAD TO BE QUICK AND CATCH HIM IN HER ARMS. THE DOGS AND MONKEY DID THE RIDING BIT....WHERE THEY JUMP ON AND OFF PLATFORMS. THE MONKEY RODE STANDING ON HIS HANDS.....THE SPIDER MONKEY DRESSED LIKE "RAGGEDY ANN" WALKED THE WIRE WITH AN UMBRELLA.....RODE A TRICYCLE, PUSHED A WHEELBARROW AND OTHER CUTE THINGS......MOM DID THIS FOR CHILDREN......FOR SHUT INS OR HOSPITALS ETC.....WHERE THEY COULDN'T TAKE THE BIG ANIMALS.......Barbara......







25 June, 2013 09:23

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