Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00HTJBDP6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 527 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Last Chain touches the heart I could not put this book down. Carol did an amazing job of explaining the history of elephants in captivity and Billie's journey through it all. I heard of this book through The Elephant Sanctuary, as I love to visit their website and watch the Ele-Cams. This book made me laugh and cry and feel outrage over the injus. "Many tears, few of joy" according to Gkimberly. I have to confess, I'm a sucker for punishment and I read a lot of books on animal welfare and I particularly love stories about elephants. Most of my reading has been with African based tales, but I thought I would enjoy this story as well. I did enjoy it very much, it is loaded with the history of circuses, loaded w. An Excellent Document on the Lives Circus Elephants in Captivity Must Endure Earlier this year at a circus protest I was participating in, a woman who stopped for a traffic light in front of me looked out her window at my "The Circus: No Fun for Animals" poster I was holding and asked me "Why are you protesting this circus and why is it no fun for animals?". At the time, my response was pointe
Meanwhile, two former elephant trainers had grown disenchanted with circuses and the distorted lives that circus elephants lived, and they decided to found a sanctuary for former performing elephants in Tennessee. Although she learned difficult tricks and was a star, Billie rebelled and began to be known as a difficult elephant, gaining a reputation for attacking her trainers. Circuses are an extremely demanding environment for elephants, with constant travel from one town to another, multiple shows per week, and continuous noise. in 1966 as a four-year-old. From Booklist *Starred Review* Like the majority of captive elephants, Billie was captured as a calf, surfacing in the U.S. The story of how Billie got to the Elephant Sanctuary, and of how the sanctuary overcame the prejudices of both the circus and zoo communities, is both heartrending and uplifting. --Nancy Bent . Department of Agriculture over her ultimate fat
Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of theElephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer her past, who neverlost sight of the life she was meant to have.Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her dayssurrounded by family, free to wander the jungles of Asia. For decades, Billie crisscrossed the country, dazzling audiences as she performed breathtaking stunts. She would never be beaten again.But, overcome with anxiety, she withdrew from the rest of theelephants and refused to let anyone remove a chain still clamped aroundher leg. Butbehind the scenes she lived a life of misery: traveling in trucks,chained for hours on end, barely able to move, giving eight-minuteperformances under harsh lights and to the sounds of blaring music. Her caregivers began to wonder if Billie could ever escape heremotional wounds.The compelling story of