Hey BG! Check me out on TV!

[noblemountain]

I have made several threads before about what I do for a living, so here's another! I work at The Elephant Sanctuary, which is a natural refuge for retired, sick, and confiscated zoo and circus elephants. We had a film crew here a while back filming a tv show called "Day Jobs". It is a show that airs on GAC (great american country) and features country music stars doing jobs they did before they got famous or jobs they wish they had. We had Kellie Pickler out for ours and it airs May 2nd at 9 p.m. central time. Here is a preview, I'm the guy in the blue shirt talking and the guy driving the 4 wheeler she's on as well.



Check it out and support a fellow BGer as well as spreading the wonderful story of our sanctuary!

[Brill Weave]

Grats Noble. Cool looking place.

[Tyche]

I have made several threads before about what I do for a living, so here's another! I work at The Elephant Sanctuary, which is a natural refuge for retired, sick, and confiscated zoo and circus elephants. We had a film crew here a while back filming a tv show called "Day Jobs". It is a show that airs on GAC (great american country) and features country music stars doing jobs they did before they got famous or jobs they wish they had. We had Kellie Pickler out for ours and it airs May 2nd at 9 p.m. central time. Here is a preview, I'm the guy in the blue shirt talking and the guy driving the 4 wheeler she's on as well.



Check it out and support a fellow BGer as well as spreading the wonderful story of our sanctuary!

She has an amazing set of....

Vocal chords?

[Callisto]

I'm not sure why but feeding them with a pushbroom made me crack the hell up. Cool stuff though, glad you can do something you care about.

[Mazmaz]

I guess with a channel called GreatAmericanCountry, it's no surprise that this video is not available in my country.

[Tweek]

that's cool man, gratz

[noblemountain]

I'm not sure why but feeding them with a pushbroom made me crack the hell up. Cool stuff though, glad you can do something you care about.

lol that's a safety thing. Just keeping yourself outside of trunk reach in case one of them was having a bad moment and wanted to grab you. Those girls you see there are total sweethearts and we don't usually use that for them, but with strangers you never can be too safe with a 10,000 lbs animal.

[noblemountain]

for peeps that don't have GAC, this will be on our youtube channel next week sometime, I'll post it when it comes up.

[NynJa]

"The uploader has made this video unavailable in your country"

[pohibaba]

Did you hit it?

[hey]

Did you hit it?

The elephant?

[Caiyuo]

Pretty fucking cool. My brother worked at a local chimpanzee sanctuary in Florida thinking it would be a similar experience, but he came back with so many horror stories about how dangerous it was. Aside from the obvious differences and I would guess the elephants not being as numerous, I can imagine it's pretty eye-opening when an accident occurs or someone gets hurt.

[BaneTheBrawler]

I kinda get the impression elephants are generally more patient than chimps. I mean, chimps are related to us, and we're batshit insane.


Cool stuff, dude. Sounding all professional and whatnot. Well done.

[Roranora]

Yes, cool job and being on tv (yes even GAC or whatever) is also cool. And I'm jelly. And elephants are awesome.

[Ratatapa]

I have made several threads before about what I do for a living, so here's another! I work at The Elephant Sanctuary, which is a natural refuge for retired, sick, and confiscated zoo and circus elephants. We had a film crew here a while back filming a tv show called "Day Jobs". It is a show that airs on GAC (great american country) and features country music stars doing jobs they did before they got famous or jobs they wish they had. We had Kellie Pickler out for ours and it airs May 2nd at 9 p.m. central time. Here is a preview, I'm the guy in the blue shirt talking and the guy driving the 4 wheeler she's on as well.



Check it out and support a fellow BGer as well as spreading the wonderful story of our sanctuary!

Racist I can't watch the video in canada

[hey]

Since when is canadian a race?

[Cail]

Since when is canadian a race?

beat me to it

[Tyrath]

Thats pretty cool. Congrats!

But isn't that the dumb chick from Are you Smarter Than a fifth grader who thought Europe was a country??

[noblemountain]

I had no clue who this girl was before she came here as I don't listen to country music or watch american idol, but she had a good heart and really cared about getting our message out to a new audience. Hopefully this show lights a spark in some of those people to check out our site and educate themselves a little bit about circus and zoo life for elephants.

As far as the danger goes, there are quite a few keepers killed every year by elephants...but they are almost always using "free contact", which means they are in the stalls with the elephants and use a bullhook to make the elephant do what they want. It is really dangerous and unnecessary. We used to use a "passive control" system where we shared their space, but didn't use domination in any way...so no bullhooks. We had a caregiver die in '06 and have since switched to the "protected contact" method where we never share the same space as the elephants. There has never been a fatality or serious injury in a protected contact system since you are never putting yourself in danger. Almost all of our girls have killed keepers or circus handlers in the past...but I also know that almost all of them had horrible lives then and were mostly reacting to their treatment.

You can only hit a 10,000 lbs animal so many times before it realizes it can hit back. They are incredibly smart and sweet animals, but we have made them scarred for life by what we did to them in their pasts. At our place we try and give some of their heritage back. Let them just be elephants. It truly is amazing how much just having the freedom to go where they want and do what they want can completely change their demeanor. Sorry for rambling...I can go on forever about this topic. I am truly lucky to be able to have a job that I love and to be doing something good for such an amazing animal. I hope to be able to do it until I can no longer do it physically...and then move into advocacy and helping them out in any way I can.

[archibaldcrane]

As someone who has worked in television production for 8 years...


...what the fuck is GAC?

Literally never heard of it, never seen a job posted to work for it, nothing.

But...cool stuff.