Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-10-01
Animals Get sick

them and harms their breathing.
Animals Get Sick
Some weeks ago he had ten Of
the twelve Polar bears sick, and
they we're out Of the arena for
three days, and you can laugh ii
you want to, but they were sun.
struck. AS rule, just before par
ade, the polar bear cages are taken
to hydrant and drenched with the
cool water. IN Lawrence, Kans.,
they were standing in front of the
water plug and had been drenched
and the sun was very hot, in fact
the temperature was 10 degrees
that day. The parade lineup was
held up for an hour and the sun
beat down on these cages, and the
answer was, ten Of the twelve bears
were sun-struck, but we didn't no
tice 1t till later in the afternoon. Ice
to a Polar bear that has been away
from the Arctic regions two years
is very bad, and they take cold, so
there is only one thing for them
and that is water, and plenty of it.
wild animals are trained the
same in winter as in summer, and
| have to see that they are fed, wa
tered, cages cleaned, and that they
are bathed, and, in winter, the bath
ling is a problem. The water must
be exactly warm enough and there
can't be a draft and they must be
dried, and when you realize how
easily a person takes cold, you can
readily see how easy it would be
for wild animals to become the
same way.
Claw Is Poison
II am often asked what is my ia
vorite. / have ne fayorites, as the
minute a keeper starts to play q
favorite, his troubles begin, as all
wild animals are jealous, especially
the tigers. We have giant tiger
that is named Ceaser, and ne is Mr.
Christensen's favorite, but to me he
is one of my group, Among the
twelve tigers in this show, there is
one that stands out among his kind
and that is boy" This tiger liv
es up to all you have heard aboui
tigers and then some, and wild i
no name for him, but when it com
es time to act, he is there ahead o.
any Of the rest. Some years age
/ had a negro helping me and ht
walked a little too close to the feed
ing den and Boy merely reached
out thru the bars and the negro to
day has only one arm. The minute
a cat animal scratches you it pois
ons you, and that means danger il
YOU don't care for it. / didn1t
know that Boy had even touched
this Negroes arm until the next day
and when he complained of q sore
arm, inquired, and he told me the
cause Of It. l looked at it, but
/ it was too late, blood poison had SCI
: lin. When ever you visit circus
never go inside the rope too neal
wild animal cage, as they viii
reach for you. Why they do, nc
one has ever explained to me"
1T is seldom that Mr.. Stiles viii
ever talk about his charges, but
when he does, it is very interest
ing. and the above is about the
most that he has talked this SUM
mer
During the winter, Mr.. Stiles has
charge of the following number Of
wild animals that are carried BY
three different circuses: Thirty-fouI
tigers, 81 lions, male and female; 81
leopards, including a black one that
is the most dangerous animal alive
is pumas, "a polar bears, and q
other cat animals. Each meat-eat
ing animal consumes little over
: twelve pounds of fresh meat daily
, and this meat is The finest that car
be bought. They drink on the az
erage Of a gallon and half of frest
: water daily, and eat, in the winter
months. about half-ton Of salt
Feeding and housing the trained
wild animals of the three circuses
! last winter alone. cost over $4,000
The entire output of money speni
by the American Circus corporation
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