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“I had confirmed my belief that I could walk into a cage of big cats and more importantly, walk back out again.”

Wild Animal Circus: True Tales From Carson & Barnes Circus by Dennis J. Younger

August 4, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Snakes (there are snakes in this book) Continuing my dive into circus animal trainer memoirs with this self-published look into working the big cat act at Carson & Barnes in 1977-1978. This is a very plainly written, minimally edited book that is basically a day by day journal of his time on the show and a few pages about him working at a roadside zoo type attraction in Florida afterwards. It was interesting in terms of the facts and his honesty about the mistreatment […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal abuse, animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, circus life, Dennis J. Younger, lions and tigers and bears

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:85 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal abuse, animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, circus life, Dennis J. Younger, lions and tigers and bears ·
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“The Circus has a great obligation to the people of America.” (Irving Feld)

Tiger, Tiger: My 25 Years with the Big Cats by Charly Baumann

August 2, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Star (Charly clearly sees himself as a star, and he was) This was a pretty fast and straight forward autobiography of Charly Baumann’s twenty-five years of circus life. It’s not the type of autobiography where the author does a lot of introspection, but it’s an enjoyable read and a good look into European and American circus post-WWII and into the 1970s. His descriptions of his training methods and the long, difficult process of carefully training tigers was interesting. There are also a lot of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Charly Baumann, circus life, lions, Tigers

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:84 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Charly Baumann, circus life, lions, Tigers ·
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“Whatever the hardships involved in being connected with it, this was the circus; and it was pure magic.”

Circus Doctor by J.Y. Henderson (as told to Richard Taplinger)

July 28, 2022 by GentleRain 1 Comment

CBR14Bingo: Elephant (there are a bunch of elephants in this book) Circus Doctor is, as its straight forward title suggests, an autobiography of a circus veterinarian. At the time he wrote this book, J.Y. Henderson had been working for Ringling for ten years, and from some cursory Googling it looks like he ended up working there for over forty. You can tell from the book how caring and passionate he is about caring for the vast variety of animals under his care, so it makes sense […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Circus, circus life, J.Y. Henderson (as told to Richard Taplinger), veterinarian

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Circus, circus life, J.Y. Henderson (as told to Richard Taplinger), veterinarian ·
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“I still knew I was going to keep my lion and train him.”

Here, Keller -- Train This by George Keller

January 20, 2022 by GentleRain 3 Comments

Here Keller — Train This is about the life of George Keller, who yearned his whole life to become a lion/big cat trainer at the circus, but ended up being an art professor at State College. One day, his friend ships him a mountain lion in a crate with a sign on it saying “HERE KELLER — Train This.” His friend does this as part joke and part challenge, as everyone knows how much he loves training animals. He takes it home and decides to actually […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal training, autobiography, Circus, George Keller, lions and tigers and bears

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal training, autobiography, Circus, George Keller, lions and tigers and bears ·
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