He coined this particular “Shamu” a “Serial Killer Whale.” ‘:o)~

If my dog would so much as nip at anyone, the Animal Control folks would show up with a Barrett .50 to put him down. Yet this “gentle creature of the sea” has killed 3 people – I say lets make some lamp oil!

Shocked that an orca, aka “Killer whale”, aka “the wolves of the sea” would actually … kill? Yeah, those same people are also “Shocked” that the stimulus hasn’t created jobs.

I am still all for making her into lamp oil. Export her fat butt to Japan.

The adult will catch a seal and then not let the poor thing get away or die until the baby learns to catch it and eat it. They throw them around and maul them like a cat playing with a mouse. It is a long, bloody process. It isn’t hard to find one doing it early in the season when they’ve just brought up this year’s crop of young ones but anybody who does whale watching tours knows to not get near or let the tourists see it because they completely freak out.

fetches the rubber ball and drops it at my feet. Sometimes she doesn’t and instead, runs around with it and holds it in her mouth for a while.

Remember, my four-pound dog is a domesticated animal.

Sometimes, a 13,000 pound wild orca wants to play too. Never mind that the toy might be a human being. But to the 13,000 pound wild orca, she’s still just a toy.

I’m waiting for the 13,000 pound wild orca’s response on just what he was feeling at the time and why he made the choices that he did. Perhaps the 13,000 pound wild orca could be rehabilitated?

express suprise that democrats want to raise taxes.
As Archie Bunker once said ” Birds hav’ta fly, fish hav’ta fry.”

I was down in Ft. Lauderdale. We were tourists so naturally we went to the Everglades and took an air boat ride. We went to this little place off the road.Nothing fancy but they had the damn boats.
We cruised the swamp. We saw an alligator. Ok ….big woop.
Afterwards, they had this little prison ghetto petting zoo.
For ten bucks you could pet a little baby tiger cub.
It was so cool. He was the size of a small dog and pretty friendly.I even had my friend take a picture that I still have to this day.
It is of me with my face right next to the tigers face and it is my favorite photo.
But I gotta’ tell ya’. That was a few years ago and now I’m sure that damn kitty weighs about 300 pounds and has 4 inch claws.
I wouldn’t go near it for a thousand dollars.
That thing can kill you in a second.
I don’t think anyone is petting it now.

These are wild animals, prone to doing things unexpectedly because, shock, we cannot read their thoughts.

We’ve spent thousands of years domesticating dogs and cats to the point where we can pretty much understand them, and yet there’s still the possibility that they can attack or kill.

I have a 20 pound puggle, and still find myself scratching my head at his coprophagic tendencies, even though I’ve trained him incredibly well. Sometimes, animals do weird and unexpected things.

The best idea for a reality TV show I can think of would be to sit in on the dimwits as they figure how they will roll out each “news” production.

Hey, dumb people are killed every day. The good news on this one is usually the dumb people take with them some innocent person minding their own business. In this case is was one dumb person dead, no other casualties.

I think FOX reported that this is number three, certainly number two deaths caused by this whale. If it were a pit bull dog, the state would have put it down. If it were a bear, cat, big cat, wolf, etc. It would have been put down. But NOOOO not “Willy” they are almost human after all. Just like us.

Truth is if they are so much like us this guy has to be put in max. security or executed. Obviously the whale does not have a problem with killing humans.

http://www.examiner.com/x-38158-Cultural-Oddities-Examiner~y2010m2d25-Shamu-attack-footage-the-rage-on-YouTube-in-wake-of-trainer-death

But no, we argue it was a stressed related murder. See dumb people.

a couple in Calif. Castrated the man. bit the fingers off the woman and clawed at her face. The wild animal expert that was interviewed said that a chimp at 4 or 5 ft tall is 10X stronger than a man and “can peel him like a banana”,.
Also the Killer whale is a dolphin- 2nd largest brain in the animal
world to the Baleen whale few see. Dolphins have teeth, Whales have the baleeen- strainers.
This animal is the father of 16 whales and has a big member. A Richard Ellis was interviewed and said that he should not be in the public or with human performers.

“Aww… isn’t that bear cub cuuuuute?”

“Whales are just like people.”

Give me a stinking break. Why do these idiots think wild animals are called wild?

That’s how much I watch CNN.

I knew she went to CNN after Foxnews and I liked her, but she might as well have fallen in a black hole.

With Lou and Arron Brown gone, that network is only watched by me when in airports as it seems to be mandatory there.

i even watch msnbc more, mostly for entertainment/shock value.

Foxnews and Cspan is all you need !

Who is importing these Assault Whales? These evil black whales?

We need to re-instate the AWB!! The Assault Whale Ban!!!

Stop the importation of these whales. Their only purpose is to kill!

THEY ARE NOT TOYS!

And children are near them! Do it for the children!

Remember, statistics show that family members are more likely to be eaten by whales than intruders in homes with killer whales.

They tried to ban chimps. It would be less damaging to the economy than Pelosicare.

Trainers are just a cost of doing business. Get over it.

As for newscasters, like killer whale “trainers”, I just consider them organ donor inventory. Can’t think of much else they’re actually good for.

Art, aren’t the little huggables attracted to bright colors–like jump-suit orange?

Or let the Navy train it, but why keep it in a pool?

“People say that the tiger went crazy on him – NO, the tiger went TIGER on him….”

Do what they do naturally.
www.firstnations.eu/img/04-2-3-whaling.jpg
Killer Whales eat seals and sea lions. Indian men eat Killer Whales. It’s normal. What’s not normal is for a whale to have a twitter acount.
http://twitter.com/shamu
What is also not normal is for a whale to “remain an “active, contributing member of the team” at SeaWorld.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/24/national/a123454S13.DTL#ixzz0gfdCNxos

Here is how a people try to remain dignified in this perverted world of legalism and animal rights.

http://www.firstnations.eu/fisheries/kwakwakawakw-quatsino.htm

Don’t let the title Land Rights and Enviromentalism fool you, that is the parlance of today’s world. It’s about preserving what rights they have left, and maintaining their culture.

If Tilikum truly has human emotions, let him suffer the consequences of a Killer Man. If not, let him re-enter the food chain.

I love nature. I loved to go hiking when I lived in Colorado, I have friends who hunt,and I have a lot of respect for nature. I think it’s a good thing to preserve natural spaces. I’m antisocial enough that I need to get away from people sometimes, being out with nothing but fresh air, mountains, etc., is wonderful. However, I know when I go out there that I could become cougar food if I’m not careful. But that’s a risk I am willing to take. Part of the problem with our culture is that we try to sanitize everything – make everything risk free. Just like life isn’t fair, living carries risks.

I don’t think the killer whale did anything wrong by killer whale standards. We as people are idiots for thinking we can keep a huge wild animal like that in what amounts to a fishbowl – those animals are designed for roaming over huge territories, hunting and killing, etc. If the trainers want to spend time with these animals, fine, but they are taking a risk – just like that Grizzly guy was taking a risk and eventually he got eaten.

When Christ comes back, the lion will lay down with the lamb. Until then, it’s nature red in tooth and claw.

I think the Planet of the Apes movie should put it into perspective. I mean imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and we were forced to perform for the animals. And in a minimized environment . I hunt & fish and I know it has its place but wild animals should not be kept in cages for our selfish entertainment. If you need to be entertained by wildlife get outdoors in their real environment. I don’t blame the whale for killing, after all Charlton Heston killed alot of those damn dirty apes for freedom

I did not see The Lion King six times, either the movie or the musical production.

In fact, I did not see it once.

Just didn’t want to mislead anyone; I considered it artistic license.