Groucho (does anybody know what happened to his ear?)
Dahlip
Tusko
Sneezy
Monday, October 20, 2008
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4 comments:
I don't remember what was the cause of Groucho's ear injury. only that most of it had to be removed. Where does Sneezy reside?
Sneezy is in Tulsa with two older cows and the two girls from Oklahoma City Zoo. Asha and Chandra were two of Onyx's four surviving offspring (the other two being Raja and Shanti). For those that remember Chandra was the first elephant to survive EEHV. They are both on breeding loan to Tulsa while OKC renovates their facilities.
Mike,
I believe Sneezy is in Tulsa. Speaking of "looking after somebody else's elephant's" heres my first and only babysitting story.
In 1976 Judy Kaye brought her elephants(Dolly,Judy, and Dumbo) to Los Angles where Hawthorn was wintering at the time and asked if I would watch them for a week, while she attended to business. Judy had received a shot in the ear vein and it caused a reaction which deadened the whole top half of her ear, so it was literally flopped over and just hanging there. 2 day's after Ms. Kaye leaves the whole half the ear falls off. No real injury but a few raw spots that were attracting flies and bothering her. I decided to be a good Samaritan, and put some "Blue Kote/Jenson Violette on it. She waited until I was through applying it, and was screwing the cap back on the class jar, when she hit me right between the eyes and came down on me. When I finally got away from her, I had the worst case of asphalt road rash on my bare back, and my right side was covered with purple when the bottle exploded as she hit me. Luckily we had no dates in the immediate future, because it took 3 weeks to wash that crap off.
I got into and out of the elephant babysitting business in one day.
Wade
The old sayin no good deed goes unpunished comes to mind.
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