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New York State Senator Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) is trying to ban the Cole Bros. Circus, which is currently performing in Brooklyn, because of they make a Siamese cat jump/fall 50 feet through the air. Newsday reports that Kruger feels the circus is treating Rincon, aka Supercat, cruelly and that the circus should ship out. Rincon has made numerous jumps, all landing onto a pillow. Newsday talks to a few people about the situation and gets some great quotes:
- "I think if you ask the cat, I think the cat is going to say 'I don't like jumping in a circus. I don't like the circus.'He's going to have arthritis; he's going to have problems in the joints. It's OK to do it once in a while, but if you do it every time, like a football player, you're going to have problems in the joints."- Dr. Javier Ramos, a veterinarian at the Riverside Animal Clinic in ManhattanThe Cole Bros. Circus says that Rincon enjoys the stunts, especially after being rescued from the mean streets of Brazil. Poor Rincon - we thought we had it bad.
- "There's always somebody out there who objects to anything," she said. "It was not harmful to the cat; the cat likes it." - Iris Fishman, resident of Marina Park and grandmother who took her grandchildren to see Rincon
- "If I were a cat, I don't think I would want to be doing that." - Special Agent Joseph Pentangelo, ASPCA
You can see some footage of Cole Bros. Amazing Housecats, but Gothamist would stress that you should not do these tricks at home with your own cats. You can see the circus, if it's not thrown at in Brooklyn and Staten Island this month.
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WTF? I live near Marine Park and have seen several years of this circus coming and going, and I have serious issues with the way they treated thier animals (not providing shade or shelter, inadequate traveling quarters), so it's no surprize they're doing this to a cat. I'd like to throw one of thier children fifty feet - oh, but don't worry - they'll land on a pillow!
the learning annex has a course in 'how to talk with your cat' or something similar. maybe the expert testimony should come from there?
You know...my neighbor's dog has a habit of chewing through the screen window of their second floor brownstone and jumping out (seriously, it's quite a sight!)...so maybe there's something to this domestic animals liking to fall thing.
I'm only piping in to call Erikka's statement fucking ridiculous. I just love it when people compare pets to children.
As a cat hater, I have no problem with what the circus is doing, and would even recommend the removal of the pillow from the act, if only to add excitement. However, the possibility that some of the flying feline's toxic shit may be dispersed into the air and breathed in by unsuspecting humans, infecting them with the dreaded toxoplasmosis, does concern me.
quality stuff. video link is a must clik.
sac, just because you don't like cats doesn't mean they deserve to be treated inhumanely. Hell, why don't I throw you fifty feet without a pillow and you can tell me how you like it.
Holy shit!...the ASPCA has SPECIAL AGENTS???
Erikka, you've got a deal. I should warn you that I am very springy and always land on my feet. Afterwards, there will be petting.
circuses are obsolete. if they want to train a cat to do something impressive, train one to clean out its own litterbox. oh how i would pay to see that!
i think jake should teach thompson these tricks!
Didn't we all learn that this practice is frowned upon by the comedy hit 'The Jerk' starring one Steve Martin? Didn't he help out some dude that was fighting kitten juggling? Anyway, yeah, circuses suck and they mistreat animals. Boycott all of them.
animal psychos need to go see a freaking psychiatrist. fast. and stay there. good psycho.
time and again they prefer mistreatment of humans while they spoil animals.
(i think some-bo-dy ne-eds a hu-ug!)
how many freaks spend hundreds to put their little shitzu up in a gourmet doggie hotel and kick a bum in the nuts on their way over? -or thousands on surgery or burial plots?
if your tiny (liberal) brains can't deal with people and understand that they're just more complicated than fido, then go move to an asylum somewhere so that doggie can tongue-bath you for the rest of your life while you click your heels together and repeat, 'there's no place like home'
(in an ironic twist of fate, the pets of many animal psychos are actually better socialized than their owners! :) (I am jack's laughing belly.))
--my cousin has a dog. ranger. i love the dog. he plays frisbee. but he's -just -a fu**-ing -dog. he's charming and s**t. but I'm not going to go smack his kids in the face if my cousin leaves the dog outside or something.
...(honestly, if you really did talk to that cat, he'd probably just say ,'who's this freaking Kruger pussy and where's my fu**ing food?!')
"If I were a cat" is probably the best way to describe what thought occupies these 'experts'' minds during most of their waking--and dreaming--hours.
Personally, I remember the excellent entertainment value I got as a child from putting little pieces of Scotch tape on the footpads of my little sister's kitten. It'd try and shake the tape off before taking every step. Note to self: tell the circus
shmersh, you're an idiot. I never said anything about doggie spas and pedigrees. I said that it's not cool to abuse animals. Way to not get the point, retard.
AHEM!
You DID say, and I quote:
"I'd like to throw one of thier children fifty feet"
and also:
"sac... Hell, why don't I throw you fifty feet without a pillow and you can tell me how you like it."
-- mistreatment of humans. Case Closed. QED.
(Besides, you don't have to mention doggie spas. I can already tell you would send foo-foo there for a week-long ayurvedic crotch massage and buy the spa T-shirt too if only you could afford to do it. ... Luke... I am your father ... search your feelings ... you know it to be true...)