Comment on A new life for abused elephants at Wildlife SOS, India by Pam

Pam — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:16:00 +0000

This is wonderful, Anne. Your words are tops with helping the reader to understand how a captive elephant feels…
I took my daughter for an “elephant day” in the Chitwan region of Nepal in June of 2018… we did ride an elephant through the jungle there… and the man driving the elephant used a bamboo stick to bop him on the head. I didn’t know it was a controversial subject… I soon learned that it was! We processed how we felt about this sweet elephant who took us on a glorious tour of the jungles down there and googled the topic after we got back to Kathmandu. Oh, there is so much to see and write about in this field, isn’t there ?

Back to our elephant day: We were able to hang out with the man and his elephant for several hours… and found that this guide was actually extremely loving. He let us walk down to the river with him and they bathed together playfully. This elephant seemed to be his life ! His only way to make money.

I would love to go back and study this topic ( and others !) soon.

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