Animal trainers

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(02-11-2016, 02:19 AM)Pckts Wrote: Next up is Courtney Ryley Cooper


He started off as a run-away circus boy who's first experience with big cats was watching a man at the circus brutally beat a lion so bad until it went blind and beat 3 leopards so bad that he turned them into man haters and eventually man killers once they finally got their claws on a circus superintendent and killed him. Needless to say since that was his only experience with big cat circus trainers he thought that was the only way it was to be done.
Later when he began to pursue this his next mentor had a completely different approach.
He sent in Cooper to walk in his cats, 3 lions and 3 tigers and all he gave cooper was a useless whip and said all he had to do was say "seat" and the cats gave him a quick hiss then proceeded to go straight to their pedestals.
You can tell this was an eye opener for him, he began to realize that these cats have their own personality and respond to love far better than abuse. He also began to communicate to them, lions would "meow" and tigers and leopards would "purr" and if he attempted to communicate this in the same way the cats knew that meant that he was pleased by them and they would always respond the same way.
He also learned that just because an animal makes vicious noises and roars doesn't mean its upset and he would use it to make the crowd think that he was dealing with the most ferocious beast alive, he compared it to playing with some dogs that growl and bark while others stay silent.

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Cooper had an admiration for Captain Dutch Ricardo and Mabel Stark

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another story with stark and "nig" the jaguar

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here he talks about how important it is to raise an elephant with love and respect or else that animal will turn on you one day and that will be your last.

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also interesting to note is Leopard and Tigers hatred for canine and to a lesser extent, Lions. Even more hatred towards the canine is their hatred towards hyena

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In regards to Lion and Tiger interaction, he does seem to feel as though the Tiger is the superior fighter but that doesn't me he is biased. He never makes it a point to pay any real mind to the outcome of any fights between any species out side of 2 events to make his point, he was talking about animals being bullied.
One animal was an old male hippo who was continuously abused by two youngster elephants until finally one day he had enough and snapped and attacked them both and the second event is the famous
Lion vs Tiger fight that saw the lion adopt the tigers fighting style of going up on two legs to leave his paws free and after being bullied by the tiger he finally had enough and a massive fight ensued that left the tiger dead.

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The mane played a factor in this fight as he said this time the tigers claws got caught in the mane and the lion took advantage of it and was able to kill the tiger.

All and all, it was a pretty good book, nothing really new to note as he doesn't get into specifics that often. But you can tell that he adopted the approach of a much more modern idea that animals have feelings too.

Im looking for any new recommendations, I'm thinking of Mabel stark next.

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Ahh hey bro, just to let you no cool book and accounts & stuff, but I seen this one before, and that wrestling tiger Maybel Starks had was anything but a killer tiger.  Tha thing was super small, like you said, born sick, no way it was slaying other full sized lions and tigers, I doubt that.  They probally just said that stuff so when it jumped on Maybel the audience would think it was trying to attack her.  But more like WWE wrestling tiger, not killer tiger, heh. Reply