Saturday, May 31, 2008
6 comments:
I was referencing the news article below. Joey referred to it as a hoo-haa, and asked for Australian readers to add insight. They responded with "grow your own dope, bury an animal libber or animal fanatic. Which was seconded by a knowledgeable CFA and today on this blog by a former "circus brat", with all due respect. I now realize that Mr. Miller, again with all due respect, in addition to being the "elephant trainer" at the Taronga Zoo is also the Director. Just speculating, but do you suppose some law's were "stretched" or "statements not verified" in a concerted "I just gotta have them, short of "breaking" the law, what ever it takes" effort? I'm not saying, I'm just wondering? Who got "radical ed here? You gotta wonder if it might have been the elephants.
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Looks like Gary Miller. He had a really nic fast paced 3 act with the Point Defiance zoo Africans years ago. He left there to become Disney's elephant manager. When he got the job at Taronga, they sent him to one of the camps in Thailand to work with the mahouts and pick three elephants that he wanted for Taronga and a few more for the other Aussie zoos. I was working at Ringling's CEC at the time and got to talk with about it. Sounded like a good deal.
Joey,
Wasn't there some issues with some elephants that came into Taronga last year?
Wade Burck
Wade, I beleive it was the standard AR protest hoo-haa, "Babies dragged from their mothers and tied with ropes, etc." That's about all I know. Maybe some of the Austrailian contributors to the blog could help with that.
wade yes taronga had a big battle
with animal fanatics and our rspca
trying to stop the elephants arriving in australia would have cost taronga zoo a fortune fighting these people who know nothing about elephants
Robert Perry
Australia
To Robert Perry,
What do you mean by these people(?) knowing anything about elephants? I don't think they know anything about anything, except how to raise money and hood-wink the public.
Bob Kitto
bob kitto
correct we used to say grow your own dope bury an animal libber or
animal fanatic.
Robert Perry
Australia
ps for a lot of people who know nothing a lot of people in high places listen to them and that is the sad part.