Interview 21409 – Caption Index: 281
What was your purpose?… Read More
What was your purpose?… Read More
They scoot away, they take off. ‘Cause they’re like, uh oh, something’s up. Read More
What’s going on?… Read More
And so, that goes on TV, and now we’re terrible people because the dog barked at the elephants. So the dogs are a terrible thing, and they have to go, blah, blah, blah. And so it took me about a week to put that firestorm down and explain to people… Read More
And so our elephant manager said, I’ll show you. And so he turned one of the dogs on, he told the dog to bark and he pointed towards the elephants. And so the dog darted out barking. It wasn’t actually near the elephants. He went barking. Keeper shut him down. Read More
Never near him. Read More
Elephants, of course, here it is, they’re gone, right?… Read More
Very well trained on their commands. And the elephants were out in their yard and the dogs were in the space. And at this point, there’s an electric wire across, which the elephants very much respect as well. Never had ’em go through it. Electric wire across separating the part… Read More
Like a protection dog, these dogs had an on command. Read More
They had a command to bark, right?… Read More
Respect my space. Read More
This is my space, keeper space, right?… Read More
And so it helped keep the keepers safer, because the dogs were there, the elephants wouldn’t reach out and try to grab a keeper who, for whatever reason, is too close, where they shouldn’t be, ’cause they’re talking to so and so and not paying attention. So it was another… Read More
And inquisitive. And so we had a long hallway, 12 foot down in our elephant building. And then we had the elephant holding areas, which had pipes, not solid, so that we could observe the animals, see the animals, feed the animals, blah, blah, blah. And so what the dogs… Read More
And so there were only maybe one or two times that the elephants, amazingly, these are little Australian Shepherd dogs, right?… Read More
The elephants are amazingly respectful of the dogs. So once the dogs were introduced, the elephants were very like, hmm, staying away from that thing, I don’t know what it’s gonna do. So we never had a situation where the dogs had to attack the elephants or in any way… Read More
And there’s a whole incredibly awesome working dog group and philosophy. Working dogs have become incredibly important to farmers out in the Midwest who are caring for large herds of cattle. And they use dogs. Instead of having to use men on horseback or ATVs to bring the cows in,… Read More
They wanna take that trunk and they wanna touch everything, and they wanna touch every guest that walks in the building, and they wanna get in the hay that’s over there on the corner, and they wanna get in the grain over here. And, oh, you left a cup there,… Read More
And they’re just incredibly smart, intelligent animals, right?… Read More
And how did you, I don’t wanna say get in trouble, but how did people?… Read More