Sunday, November 2, 2008

Robert Baudy-- One of America's great cage act's of old.



Courtesy of Jim Cole

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wade, I believe that this is the guy who breeds white Siberians.
Mary Ann

Casey McCoy Cainan said...

Mary Ann,
I don't think Baudy is breeding anything these days. I am not even sure if he is still around. His place in Webster FL has been closed for a few years now. I spent alot of winters across the street from him when we wintered at the fairgrounds 86-93 and even did some work for him (mucked out a rhino pen for a week and was nearly impaled daily,,lol) He surely bred some whites, but I would doubt they were any more Siberian then any other whites. He dealt mostly in the breeding of Leopards when I was around him.

Anonymous said...

Casey,
I don't believe for one minute that they are pure Siberian, but I think that they have more Siberian blood than others. S & R came up with white Siberians, and then a snow white Siberian named Apollo a few years ago, and I thought "Yeah, right!" But when we went to see him, he was much shaggier than the others.
Robert Baudy supposedly bred a pair of white Siberians, Gorbi and Raiisa, in 1989 that went to the Beauval Zoo.
Mary Ann

Wade G. Burck said...

Mary Ann,
And a ti-liger is more tiger then a liger. What pure Siberians did S and R have?
Wade

Anonymous said...

Wade, Atlas and Titan are the striped white Siberians, and Apollo is the snow white Siberian, but as I said, I don't really believe that any of them are pure Siberians, just have a highr percentage of Siberian than the others do.
Mary Ann

Ryan Easley said...

Wade and Casey,
I have seen reference that Baudy acquired an elephant "Julie" from the Cincinnati Zoo in the mid-1970s. Does anyone know what happened to her?

Wade G. Burck said...

Radar,
I have not heard of that elephant.

Wade