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.
“My lovely lady hump.”
Thanks!
see #41 for the link...
Yakov Smirinoff: “In Florida, camel smokes YOU!”
Doesn’t Pax or Allegra have a Camels-of-Mass-Destruction ping list?
Exactly. I might not have been able to save the woman, but that damn camel sure enough would have been dead, too.
That’s Darwin at work.
Random thought, but I recall a documentary where camels tried killing threatening creatures by crushing them with their weight and sort of laying/sitting down on them (generally making contact with their chest)... that and the comment about the camels being agitated (what animal just sits down when agitated?) makes me wonder if it didn’t just “sit down” on her but decided she was a threat and crushed her.
That's what you want people to believe, but we have the videotape!
I dunno about Darwin Award. This wasn’t blatant stupidity, like looking down the barrel of your jammed gun and pulling the trigger or sleeping on railraod tracks, but just sounds like an unfortunate freak accident ala crocodile hunter.
I understand camels are pretty nasty and cantakerous. They may not have been able to do anything.
“Camels of Mass Destruction” is Allegra’s ping list.
Ouch! Achey Breaky Ake
Wild? This is tragic yes, but camels have been domesticated longer than horses. It’s a tragedy if someone dies in an equestrian accident but no one calls the horse wild. Large, unintentionally dangerous due to size, but thoroughly domesticated.
Domesticated? Are elephants domesticated? Are lions, tigers, or bears(I’m not going to say it) domesticated? They’ve been entertaining the folks at the circus for a very long time.
Just because an animal is trained doesn’t mean it is domesticated. People have pet Puma’s that’ll even do tricks.
i gets no respeck i tellsya!
t’warn’t me I tellya! might be me evil twin, but me? perish the thought!
Better late than never. ;-)
Camels of Mass Destruction Ping!
Whew.
Was afraid for a minute there that you were shirking your CMD Ping duties.
Cheers!
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