A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Franziska Nock and Suzanne Chipperfield Exotics--Circus Nock
I can't speak to Europe, but it is still the strangest thing to see two people in the cage, no matter how common it is there. Here it isn't, and it just seems odd. But two in the ring with exotic's is really odd.
Chic, The Samels you reference were Yvonne's parents. You were impressed with Ursula and the Polar Bears because of the number and size of the animals, and the fact that it was a women. The "assumption" is that the man was needed to move the heavy props. Manfred Horn stayed in the back ground in a nondescript uniform, only on a very rare occasion "working" one of the bears. It he did have to correct or help with something it was done in an unassuming way. Almost all of Alfred Courts act's had two people in them. You will note I quoted assumption above. Again the assumption was that another person was needed to move the props. Yet there have been cases of his act's worked later by others, without the aid of someone to move props. It is a subject that has been discussed here extensively in the past, with differing thoughts and opinions as to "why" two people are necessary. Wade
Many years ago we had the Samels
ReplyDeletework as a duo in the mesh arena
with (I think) mixed smaller cats
I wasn't impressed with them but
Ursula did such a magnificent
act with those tremendous bears
that I didn't mind her assistant
there (can't remember his name)
Chic,
ReplyDeleteThe Samels you reference were Yvonne's parents.
You were impressed with Ursula and the Polar Bears because of the number and size of the animals, and the fact that it was a women. The "assumption" is that the man was needed to move the heavy props. Manfred Horn stayed in the back ground in a nondescript uniform, only on a very rare occasion "working" one of the bears. It he did have to correct or help with something it was done in an unassuming way. Almost all of Alfred Courts act's had two people in them. You will note I quoted assumption above. Again the assumption was that another person was needed to move the props. Yet there have been cases of his act's worked later by others, without the aid of someone to move props. It is a subject that has been discussed here extensively in the past, with differing thoughts and opinions as to "why" two people are necessary.
Wade