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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.
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I'll let someone else spell the Za-------- Bros. name. Pretty interesting presentation, e.g. cats laying around the cage. When the two "barrels" came out I had an idea I was going to see the jump with a rider. Great trick but does it always have a build-up as long as a cannon act? Thanks for showing this classic.
Jim,
I am thinking the cat's laying around on the ring curb was so as not to take up space with seat's. If we see a cage act with the animals laying on the seat's we mock the trainer/presenter as incompetent. A feline will volunteer to lay down. It doesn't take a lot of human coaxing. Lord knows there wasn't much real estate left, what with the "erector set" in the middle of the ring. I realize you are a sea lion guy and even with a dozen musical horns, 4 rings, 6 balls of various sizes, plus a stainless steel stand to hang it all on, more is still better for you. The "build-up" for the jump get's longer each year the lion get's older and fatter. If you look at clips from 4 years ago, it was pretty much a short, "watch this." Now it seems you have time to run home,start supper and still get back in plenty of time to enjoy the conclusion with the family.
This brings up an issue all Animal Trainers face in the American circus. How do we keep the animals fresh, willing, and desiring if we must travel a thousand miles, do 2,3 or 4 show's a day 7 days a week at the insistence of a desperate producer? The thought, planning and consideration that goes into putting together a show horse's yearly show circuit to prevent "burn out" is staggering. How do we keep producing "new and fresh" instead of the same old, 25 years later? Why do we only see the majority of these wild crazy Russian animal act for a year or so before they "disappear" to be replaced by something "new and fresh?" Does Russia have many more world class zoo facilities then any other country in the world, that are willing to give the "old performers" a home, so that new can be produced? Or does that explain the abundance of reasonably priced fur coat's available in Russia?
Wade
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