Saturday, August 13, 2016

#10 Elephant Acts

"Tika" and Carrie Jones.

Posted by Buckles at 8/13/2016 05:38:00 AM

2 comments:

Roger Smith said...

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?

13 August, 2016 18:24
Wendy Tucker said...

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...

16 August, 2016 22:07

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