Buckles Blog: Elephants /Horses #11

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Elephants /Horses #11

15 comments:

Larry Louree said...: I heard somewhere that zebras are hard to work with as the will be very gentle and cooperative and smart and do the same simple thing like go in their stall calmly for weeks, the out of nowhere the turn stupid and act as if they've never seen you before and act like a bucking bronco on crack trying to get away from you or defend themselves from you because they think you are a Lion or something? It was explained to me they aren't a horse and don't think that way. Can anybody share their experiences?; 20 September, 2015 08:31
Chic Silber said...: Bobby Gibbs solved the problem

by painting his own crossbreeds

(they looked pretty silly)

Huh Casey; 20 September, 2015 09:05
Buckles said...: My father said they were half mule and half tiger.; 20 September, 2015 11:55
Bob Karczewski said...: I have heard that they can do a pretty good job of biting and kicking if they go off the deep end. I saw a video of a Lioness that had been kicked by a Zebra, which resulted in a broken jaw which eventually caused her to starve to death.; 20 September, 2015 12:07
cindy herriott wells said...: my niece jennifer walker is currently presenting a six zebra liberty act on soul circus.i trained a zebra for my sister acouple of years ago . they are not a horse they are simply an African animal need i say more, always challenging and iteresting. sincerely, cindy herriott wells; 20 September, 2015 13:21
cindy herriott wells said...: my niece jennifer walker is currently presenting a six zebra liberty act on soul circus,complete with waltz, obleak,waltzout. sensational! i trained a zebra a couple of years ago for my sister,i enjoyed the challenge, they are not a horse but simply an african animal! they are both interesting and challenging. sincerely, cindy herriott wells; 20 September, 2015 13:28
Chic Silber said...: Is this Hugo Schmitt; 20 September, 2015 13:45
Jim Alexander said...: This could be taken on the Leonard Bros. Circus in 1956. I remember seeing this act
in my youth but didn't see the chimp act I believe he had at the time.

As to Bobby's white mini-mules: It all depended on the dye job. Sometimes they looked like plains zebras (if they kept moving and you weren't too close), sometimes like a kid took a magic marker to a white mule.; 20 September, 2015 19:36
Chic Silber said...: I must have seen the later style Jim; 21 September, 2015 08:51
Chic Silber said...: Very nice to see your comment Cindy

Please keep em coming; 21 September, 2015 08:53
BOBBY'S LITL BRO. said...: They might have looked silly at times but were a lot easier to handle than the real things ! Right Jennifer ???; 21 September, 2015 12:57
Chic Silber said...: Do you have any photos of them Casey; 21 September, 2015 13:31
Richard Reynolds said...: I beg to differ about the zebras. They are indeed members of the family Equidae, which includes horses, donkeys and asses - -you can look it up. In fact there are instances of zebras being bred to horses.

The most savage animal I ever saw in a zoo (Memphis)was a male Grevy zebra (biggest of the zebras) in his stall in the barn. The top part of the stall was of chicken wire and he would leap up biting the wire and shaking it violently trying to get out at me. That in addition to kicking the walls of the stall.

But zebras always make nice circus presentations. I'm glad to see that there are several trainers working them today.; 21 September, 2015 14:28
Chic Silber said...: I think what Cindy meant was they

were of very different temperment

than horses (not their species)

She is obviously of a family who

are VERY knowledgeable of horses; 21 September, 2015 15:42
Chic Silber said...: It appears that whatever folks

attended this performance they were

all down in the blues (cheap seats)

while the reserved hardwood section

looks totally empty; 21 September, 2015 17:22

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