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Saturday, August 13, 2016
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Is Carrie somehow related to Smokey Jones? When he was in his last illness, a daughter or step-daughter gave CIRCUS REPORT some periodic updates until his passing. Was this Carrie?
I'm pretty sure that this is Kari Johnson of Have Trunk
Will Travel, step-daughter of Smokey Jones. She is an
amazing woman who is valiantly fighting to keep the
animal rights activists from winning this battle.... she
has been fighting the "bullhook ban" in California and
elsewhere, and fighting for the right to be able to
bring their elephants to fairs for rides, to be able to
have them in movies and commercials.... and to just
simply have them, and be able to train them as they
always have; as all you old elephant people have....
without having to have bars between you....
If any of you who read this blog find yourselves with
any spare time, this is a cause that could use all the
support it can get, most especially from people who have
experience with exotic animals and/or circus. The
activists are very organized and with social media they
get the word out about say, a little state fair that's
going to have elephant rides or a tiger encounter, and
they inundate the fair board and local politicians with
thousands of emails demanding that they cancel the
animals. 99.99% of them are nowhere near the fair and
have no intention of going.
But the reality is, they are winning over many
municipalities all over North America, as the local
politicians are being bought, er, lobbied to decide that
having animals in any kind of display is cruel. And
because they hear way, way more from the animal rights
side, they are swayed to thinking that the majority of people support them. This has always been a problem, because animal people are too busy taking care of their animals to have the time to fight back appropriately.
HTWT have made several wonderful videos that need to be
seen as much as possible and shared across social media.
If any of you are on Facebook, 'like' Have Trunk Will
Travel's page and perhaps share their stuff.... that
would get the word out to so many more people.
Kari testified brilliantly at the Ringling trial, And
I'm sure she was instrumental in the outcome, and now
the Felds have made things all that much harder for HTWT
and everyone else...
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