Mystery meat.
Posted on 05/22/2017 7:07:22 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Dozens of performing animals need new homes after the owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced the looming end of the famed show.
Between 40 and 50 animals, including about 18 tigers, must find new owners after long dazzling crowds in “The Greatest Show on Earth,” according to Stephen Payne, vice president of corporate communications for Feld Entertainment, the live touring company that owns Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.
Officials are working to relocate about the tigers as well as several camels, horses, llamas and goats before the curtain comes down on the circus in May. The company-owned creatures will likely be moved to zoos and conservation centers in the U.S., but the plans are not yet final.
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They wouldn’t last long in nature.
Any dwarves? I could take one or two. Precious, adorable dwarves...
OMG, LOL!!!!
Anywhere but the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation center...
***They wouldn’t last long in nature.****
True, but in zoos and conservatories they should do well. They are no longer wild animals - so the choices are limited. Perhaps they have enjoyed ‘performing’ before crowds of noisy humans.
Should have taken some out after the show and shot them in front of the protesters and said “You win”.
Circuses really are an anachronistic throw-back to an earlier low tech age. I’m surprised that they have lasted as long as they have in today’s high tech age. I think it’s time.
There are many preserves in the USA.
North Carolina has the best Zoo in the nation and Tennessee has a wonderful elephant habitat.
https://www.nczoo.com/
https://www.elephants.com/
This is something I would pay for.
As much as I hate to see Ringling shut down, I guess all things come to an end.
At least they are all edible. Buy more charcoal.
Thanks for the information. Good to know.
Actually, the last time I went to the circus it seemed to have become so HIGH-tech that it just wasn’t what I remembered and enjoyed in childhood.
But then, I remember tiny circuses that went from town to town and actually took place in big tents ;-)
I put a certain system in for these folks that had very large boxes. I asked them where to deposit them and they said don’t worry about it.
The large cats (Lions, Tigers) will have a field day with them. LOL. They put the boxes into their habitat and they said they are just like your house cat, only bigger.
Too bad they couldn’t have set up a year-round show in Florida, in good permanent quarters.
They travel by train (their own cars). Every couple of years their train would park just outside of where I work for a few weeks between shows or doing local shows. Last year one of the female acrobats decided to suntan in her string bikini outside of her train car. Just about shut down our male dominate facility. I would take a couple of them if they can’t find other good homes.
One thing I never saw but wish I has was when Ringling Bros did their shows at Madison Square Garden they'd march their elephants in procession through the Midtown Tunnel and across Manhattan to the West Side.It my understanding that that was an impressive sight.
The modern day circuses tend to feature human acts more than animals. Cirque du Soleil is one example. I’ve never been, but hear it’s incredible.
Yes, I’ve always wanted to see that!
I remember Ringling Bros. doing motorcyle stunts high in the air, back in the 70s; that just didn’t seem like ‘circus’ to me.
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