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Weekly Dish for March 4-10, 2012
ONE YEAR LATER March 11th will mark a year since a powerful tsunami hit Fukushima and surrounding areas of Japan. Sadly, when this natural disaster struck, thousands had to flee their homes and leave their pets behind. Thanks to the quick work of animal groups and local shelters, thousands of these abandoned pets have been…
mschark, YouTube All hands on deck. Or trunks, as it were. After Joplin, Mo. was devastated by twisters, locals needed all the help they could get in cleaning up the aftermath. And not just human help either. This elephant is part of the Picadilly Circus, which had rolled its bigtop into Joplin for a performance when the storms struck. Since the venue where the circus was meant to go on instead was converted into a makeshift hospital, the circus was canceled. But instead of skipping town, the circus stayed to help, including their floppy-eared pachyderm of burden. ...
The circus recently came to Washington, D.C., and even before they pitched their tents at the Verizon Center, the show had begun. As part of the Ringling Bros. Circus Zing Zang Zoom Tour, the elephants marched on Washington -- literally -- alongside horses, performers, and clowns in a lead-up to their shows in the nation's capitol. And at least for these viewers, there was a change from the usual D.C. donkey vs. elephant race. ...
Ben Gray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution / AP A 12-year-old zebra named Lima ran away from the circus on Thursday afternoon and straight into rush hour traffic on a busy expressway in Atlanta, Ga. "All of a sudden, a freaking zebra comes running down the street like a car," one witness, Daniel Nance, told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. "Five or six police cars were in hot pursuit." What the heck happened? "Our zebras were being exercised in an outdoor pen as usual that day when something startled him," Crystal Drake, spokesperson for the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus, tells Paw Nation. "Some noise or something in a far parking lot startled him and he came out of the ...
Ageless Northshore We all occasionally dream of running off to join the circus. Well, Larry Carden didn't have to dream. He was born into one! Carden took some time from his busy schedule traveling with the George Carden Circus, International (started by his father) to answer our questions about being an elephant trainer. Name: Larry Carden Age: 29 Job title: Elephant Trainer What do you do? My father owns 10 elephants. I work with all of them but when I'm on the road I work with four. I grew up around elephants and have been training them for 12 years -- as did my father before me and his father before him. What is it like to work with elephants? Taking care of an elephant is a ...