Camel sits on, kills Florida woman

MiamiHearld.com ^ | 04/24/2007

[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.

[devane617]

OK, here the link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820934/posts

[reagan_fanatic]

Died under a camel. Wow.

A word to Rosie O'Donnell's girlfriend - get out now while you can!!

[devane617]

I hope there is not more to the mating season portion of the story.

[This Just In]

Exotic Animals is just another word for Wild Animals.

I have been laughing throughout this thread.

[gc4nra]

deet da dee!

[jazusamo]

You have a smart daughter. :-)

[x]

How many more must die?

[I see my hands]

To: Donnie Ake

It's so sad to lose someone. Sympathies, Donnie.

[Verloona Ti]

Last year we lost the cat for a few days, I tried to break it gently to my 5 year old daughter that he may not come back, after a moment she said, "Can we get a dog?"

This made me laugh out loud!

( I love dogs and like cats; my fiance loves cats and likes dogs. I had two little dog when we moved in together. I've been trying to convince him to go ahead and get a kitten-a ragdoll kitten; supposedly rag dolls get along OK with dogs and even have rather canine dispositions-but so far he hasn't taken me up on the sugestion.)

[albee]

"I hope there is not more to the mating season portion of the story."

Nah.....camels aren't into necrophilia.

[Archangel86]

Seems right up your alley.

[Verloona Ti]

She sounds like a nice lady. As for her husband, the poor guy was probably in a state of shock when he made those truly amazing remarks to the press, so I’ll cut him some slack.

[tiredoflaundry]

what hump?

[lastchance]

MMMM. Aren’t camels from the Mideast?

[SolidWood]

What a bizarre (and sad) story!

[Lx]

I’d send it off to Ralston Purina.

[highimpact]

Exotic Animals is just another word for Wild Animals.

You can take the animal out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the animal. Sorry this had to happen to you maam, but you should've asked your husband for a dog instead of a camel. I guess he won't be making that mistake again.

[TheMom]

You can’t make this stuff up ping.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

A reporter called 9-1-1 when Ake fell under the camel.

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Looks like that did a lot of good.

[Xenalyte]

Did that make it to FR? I have GOT to read that story.