Posted on 04/24/2007 1:41:07 PM PDT by devane617
An owner of an exotic animal farm has died after being kicked and then sat on by a camel.
Cathie Ake and the 4-year-old camel were being filmed by a local television station on Sunday when the camel kicked her and then sat down during a break in filming. The station was doing a story on Mini-Akers Exotic Animals, the 15-acre farm Ake owned with her husband.
Cathie Ake's husband, Donnie Ake, said he would find a new home for Polo, the camel, The News Herald of Panama City reported Tuesday. He believes the 1,800-pound animal was agitated by mating season.
The couple bought the camel at an auction three weeks ago and kept him in a 50 foot by 80 foot pen.
''My wife did a lot of rescue,'' Donnie Ake said. ``She wouldn't let an animal suffer.
``We might not have food in the house, but she made sure they had something to eat.''
A reporter called 9-1-1 when Ake fell under the camel.
''To be honest with you, I don't think there's much that she could have done,'' said Gulf County Sheriff Dalton Upchurch.
A deputy and paramedics moved the camel and recovered Cathie Ake's body.
Donnie Ake said he believes his wife either suffocated or was crushed by the animal. The Akes started their exotic animal farm nearly 10 years ago.
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Yet another case of Middle Eastern terrorism....
All camels should be registered, and all camel owners should be required to undergo a full criminal and mental health screening.....
(Just figured I’d beat Chuckie Schumer just once in my life)
LOL..and I shouldn’t be.
Cause it was an unfiltered Camel. Those things are killers.
Only if you want to get the thread pulled.
HEY!!!
it's diskriminashun I tellya! I'm bein presecuted-er-prostituted-er-wel--you know!!
I tellya iwas FRAMED!!!
That’s what I’m thinking as well.
Hey,maybe he should move to San Francisco,then he could MARRY the damn camel!
What the F*?
Aw MAN! I do NOT like the way this thread is shaping up. no siree. us camles are getting pretty well beat up here.
anyway, I gotsta go before somebody drops a house on me! :-)
I’ll look up the FR link to the story I posted. She got really upset over a drive-thru order, jumps out of the truck and is run over by the rear wheels.
All camels should be registered, “
HEY!!!
it’s diskriminashun I tellya! I’m bein presecuted-er-prostituted-er-wel—you know!!
I tellya iwas FRAMED!!!
ROTFL! Sorry, but you spit in public and its disgusting.
Get a bucket, why doncha?!
Good lord, you could bribed it with an apple, turned a hose on it, done a half dozen things to get it to move.
It wasn’t the sit that killed her, it was the time of the sit.
Cathie Ake was still getting to know her pet camel when it killed her Sunday.
“She’d been wanting one for I don’t know how long,” said Donnie Ake, her husband. “And I finally gave in.”
Cathie was a licensed clinical social worker and ran an adoption and counseling service in Panama City called New Beginnings. She used the pets from Mini-Akers in her work with children to help get them to open up.
She carried a baby ring-tailed lemur with her most everywhere she went, and she also wanted to work Polo into her therapy. She already had started snapping pictures of him with her cell phone to show to her kids.
Yeah...I understand.
I get agitated around mating season also.
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