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2 comments:
Wade,
The "fight over Maggie "
what's best for Maggie or what's best for the private sanctuary?
A trainer ? When I observed the sanctuary people I noticed they stay on the other side of the fence.Is that how they do it ? Not having any physical contact?Just flinging bananas and using words.
I can't understand how you can work and know animals by observation and through a fence.
Rebecca
Rebecca,
It should be about Maggie, and not what is best for either the sanctuary or the zoo. Usually that priority, is lost in the shuffle of "I'm right, you suck", which is what happened with the Hawthorn elephants, so I know of what I speak.Like a standard in the circus, what is good or what is bad is still in the process of being defined, so it it personal philosophies that are dictating the thoughts.
Working is defined as nothing more then manipulating to what you need done. That can be done with physical control or it can be done in protected contact. It depends on "how much you need done." Yes, you can learn all about an animal by observation, either through a fence or in the wild, it is how you interpret what you are seeing. Many people should have been made to observe for a very long time, before they were given a hook. It would have prevented a lot of problems.
Wade
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