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Ringling Bros. is getting rid of elephants [ 8^( ]
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| 03-05-2015
| By David K. Li
Posted on 03/05/2015 6:41:29 AM PST by Red Badger
The nations leading big top act Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out elephants by 2018, succumbing to years of pressure from animal rights activists.
The Associated Press reported that Ringling Bros. circus parent company, Feld Entertainment, will have its stable of 43 pachyderms live out their days at the 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: circus; elephant; peta; ringling; workingdogs
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More info here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/df575148221544f4adaf3bea2adbb635/apnewsbreak-ringling-bros-eliminating-elephant-acts
To: Red Badger
Elephants belong in their home countries. Frankly, I don’t believe in circuses or zoos. Both are “unnatural”.
To: Red Badger
The elephant show was the best part of the circus next to the trapeze artists.
To: Red Badger; MeshugeMikey
Mugabe’s gotta eat. “SOLD to the highest bidder!”
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:44:49 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: Red Badger
Those elephants live just a few miles from me.
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:45:37 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Red Badger
I guess they’ll be euthanized now which is better for them, more humane. /sarc
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:46:22 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Red Badger
That’s okay. They can replace them with killer whales.
To: driftdiver
[Those elephants live just a few miles from me.]
Are they well treated? Peta people want to know.
To: a fool in paradise
Baby Elephants only please...
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:47:09 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Red Badger
I would guess that most peoples experiences in seeing a real, live elephant was via the circus or zoo. It's at these venues that we learn to see it as a real life animal. I actually think the animal "rights" people are hurting their stated cause by isolating people from these animals.
But of course I don't think it's about the animals with them anyways....
To: Red Badger
I think midget wrestling should make a comeback.
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:47:33 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: stars & stripes forever
Well they’ve only made a break for it and escaped once that I know of. So I assume they are happy pac-o-derms
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:48:30 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: central_va
Ringling actually has an Asian elephant preserve program in Florida...................
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:48:54 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: stars & stripes forever
You mean like the Shrine Circus where a group comes out as the trapeze act “The Flying Pepperoni Brothers” and little later the same group becomes “The Amazing Zamboni Family” as a high-wire act?
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:49:05 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: central_va
Gimli is not amused
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:49:33 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: central_va
Can’t use the word ‘midget’ any more. It’s not PC........................
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:50:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: DouglasKC
It’s about their desires read into the animals, and sometimes it isn’t realistic. An elephant properly cared for is just a big pet. Teach it that when it goes into the circus ring it gets elephant treats, and it will like doing that.
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:52:10 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: MeshugeMikey
I’d post the words from ‘Baby Elephant Walk’ but there aren’t any..................
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:52:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:52:22 AM PST
by
Sybeck1
To: driftdiver
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posted on
03/05/2015 6:53:47 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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