Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Elephant Dogs #9


Remember Clarence?
If I'm correct my wife picked him up from her sister Billie in Ruskin.
His first show was Miller-Johnson (Cliff Vargas) then the Grand Tour of Mexico and well remembered from RBBB Circus World as seen above.
I liked to have dogs, etc. around green elephants and he was glad to accommodate, always underfoot.

1 comments:

BARBARA WOODCOCK said...

CLARENCE WAS A .....GREAT.... ELEPHANT DOG......A NATURAL, HE WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE......BUT WHEN WE WERE IN RUSKIN.......I PRACTICED "NIRVANA" EVERY DAY.... SO I WOULD SEND "SHANNON" OVER TO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE FOR HER TO BABY SIT WHILE I TRAINED MY LEOPARD.....ONE DAY HE JUST WENT WILD BARKING JUMPING AROUND.....AND PULLING ON "SHANNON" SO MUCH HE STARTED TO CRY.......THIS WAS SO UNUSUAL THAT MOM AND I BOTH CAME TO SEE WHAT WAS WRONG......"SHANNON" WAS NOT TWO YEARS YET......BUT HE COULD WALK TO MY MOM'S BY HIMSELF...... THER WAS A BIG.... RATTLESNAKE.... RIGHT IN THE PATH HE WAS TRYING TO TAKE........"CLARENCE".....STOPPED.... HIM......."THANK GOD".....HE CERTAINLY COULD DO NO WRONG AFTER THAT.......AND A GOOD ELEPHANT DOG ON TOP OF THAT......Barbara.....