She broke his ribs. Another dolphin had a diving flipper. This was before the time of them floating so it would sink out of sight at the Flipper set. Soapy would just take that old flipper all around with him. Sometimes it was very embarrassing how he would go upside down with an erection and there was his flipper.
Industries evolve, public sentiment evolves, ethics evolve.
What seemed an acceptable practice thirty years ago now seems at least antiquated, and a worst cruel. In the wild they might have many years ahead of them, family, offspring, a life. A retirement unlike any other. I think everyone that worked with her would vote for retirement if it didn't mean losing their job too. She has jumped enough, and splashed enough.