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Originally posted by yertle
Also, it appears Little Joe didn't just snatch up the child randomly- she was being held by an 18-year-old who was trying to hold the pavillion doors closed so that he couldn't escape...
I know its terrifying for her and her family, but there's talk around Boston of euthanizing Little Joe, and I think someone's got to stick up for him.
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The 18 year old sounds like a real pistol. When the gorilla grabbed the kid, the 18 year old got the gorilla to come after her instead, suffering a bit in the process. That's the 18 year old I want watching my kid.
One thing that I have found amazing here in the big city is how little ability people have to interact with or deal with animals, even domestic ones. The youngest greedseed is afraid of almost all animals, and it's tough to fix that because greedseed isn't around them. You go to the zoo and there's always something (maybe not enough) between you and the animals. You go to a petting zoo and the animals are ultra-docile, in a small space, and overwhelmed. For bigger kids you can do things like horseback riding, but that's really not appropriate under age 5 or 6. Anyone have any good places to go, maybe weekend trips somewhere in the Northeast, to expose kids to animals?
