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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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