The Circus (elephant in Cork)

PostHack

I assume this is the usual circus publicity stunt?? Animal "escapes" from the visting circus and ends up in the news.... Happens suspiciously often.... Disgraceful, prosecutions should follow.

minotour

Cloverfield done cork style.

44leto

I always like seeing an Elephant break from a circus, but pity it has to here. I thought circus animal acts were illegal, if not it should be.

Andy!!

Great comment on youtube.

"Give her some pyjamas and she'd fit in well with the rest of the elephants that hang around up there!"

Benny_Cake

Disgusting that a circus is allowed to keep elephants or other large animals, maybe this will draw some attention to the issue.

booboo88

Andy!! wrote: »

Great comment on youtube.

"Give her some pyjamas and she'd fit in well with the rest of the elephants that hang around up there!"

Thats out of order

ColeTrain

booboo88 wrote: »

Thats out of order

Spot on, it's not fair to compare a innocent animal to all the fat yokes in pj's.

vibe666

philstar wrote: »

its on liveline now

do they have a translator who speaks elephant telling joe what it's saying? :pac:

Solair

It's crazy that circuses involving animals are still operating in 2012!

Apart from the animal rights issues, the Health and Safety Authority should investigate that incident. Someone, or even several people, could have been killed or badly injured.

LH Pathe

Sounds like a concept album

starlit

Now I have seen everything! ha

So did Nelly the Elephant go back to the Circus then!?:pac:

Chuck Stone

Poor thing overheard someone saying 'jungle is massive init' and thought he was near home.

I hate when a beautiful big creature like that is reduced to performing for idiot humans.

NonSickle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMyEHY6ELs&feature=related

Sorry dont know how to get the you tube clip to come up but this show's how a poor baby elephant is trained from a circus trainer himself and he even admits its brutal, its is hard watching for anyone and the use of bull hooks were used here and on the elephant in cork.

pandaboy

chin_grin wrote: »

Also here.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056589411

That's this thread, is it not?

eth0

pandaboy wrote: »

with the advent of internet

Victor Barry is that you?

pandaboy

doxy wrote: »

I was actually there yesterday when the poor thing was trying to flee, he looked really scared and unhappy. It's shocking that they still allow circuses to keep animals in this day and age.

I completely agree. Though they may be kept to the best of animal standards, it's still not their natural environment. If a circus goes into debt and the animals, either auctioned or re-homed, are stuck in limbo.

pandaboy

eth0 wrote: »

Victor Barry is that you?

I could only dream of being him.

Born to Die

pandaboy wrote: »

I completely agree. Though they may be kept to the best of animal standards, it's still not their natural environment. If a circus goes into debt and the animals, either auctioned or re-homed, are stuck in limbo.

Harsh on Cork.

NonSickle

NonSickle wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMyEHY6ELs&feature=related

Sorry dont know how to get the you tube clip to come up but this show's how a poor baby elephant is trained from a circus trainer himself and he even admits its brutal, its is hard watching for anyone and the use of bull hooks were used here and on the elephant in cork.

Worth a look..

44leto

Solair wrote: »

It's crazy that circuses involving animals are still operating in 2012!

Apart from the animal rights issues, the Health and Safety Authority should investigate that incident. Someone, or even several people, could have been killed or badly injured.

I feel the same way, the cruelty involved in training an Elephant to prance around a ring and stand up on it's hind legs is horrendous. It's not like Elephants are a curiosity from the heart of the dark continent which nobody has ever seen. We seen them in a host of fascinating wildlife documentaries, or Zoos which IMO are fine.

I would not attend or bring a child to a circus that involves animal acts, you might as well allow Bear baiting, dog fighting or cat burning.

ziggy23

44leto wrote: »

I feel the same way, the cruelty involved in training an Elephant to prance around a ring and stand up on it's hind legs is horrendous. It's not like Elephants are a curiosity from the heart of the dark continent which nobody has ever seen. We seen them in a host of fascinating wildlife documentaries, or Zoos which IMO are fine.

I would not attend or bring a child to a circus that involves animal acts, you might as well allow Bear baiting, dog fighting or cat burning.

I always hated circuses as a kid I even felt uncomfortable watching the animals being paraded around. Definitely won't be bringing my son to one either. I used to hate going to the zoo too but it has improved so much over the years, the animals aren't stuck in cages anymore.

old gregg

I was interested in the plight of the elephant until rte interviewed the lady from Costa. After that I just wanted to drop down and buy coffee.

prinz

It's always interesting to see the priorities people have.

Anywho no need for an animal in a circus anymore. Should be scrapped.

The video was just on ABC news Australia

LOL

starch4ser

Was on NBC earlier as well. Slow day for news.