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Cetuna! Now with extra dolphin!
Posted on 12/02/2012 2:35:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
Jillian Thomas’ father, Jamie Thomas, captured the Nov. 21 attack on video with images of his daughter’s face contorting with pain as the girl suffered three puncture wounds the size of dimes
An 8-year-old Atlanta girl and her family say they got the fright of their lives at SeaWorld Orlando last month when a dolphin lunged toward the girl and bit her hand.
Jillian Thomas’ father, Jamie Thomas, captured the Nov. 21 attack on video with images of his daughter’s face contorting with pain as the girl suffered three puncture wounds the size of dimes, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
The cuts are healing, the family was thankful the attack wasn’t worse. Still, the family posted the video online as a warning to other parents.
“The first thing I thought was I would have to jump in the water and save my daughter's life,” Jamie Thomas told the Orlando Sentinel. “I literally thought she was going to be pulled into the water.”
The girl was attacked while she was participating in the feeding at the dolphin cove, the newspaper reported.
She put the paper fish container up in the air to where the dolphin could grab it, which SeaWorld warns against. The child's mother said her daughter made a mistake and "you can't hold a minor responsible for that."
SeaWorld officials said in a statement they had not seen the video but are taking the matter seriously.
"Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our guests, employees and animals," the statement said. "Educators and animal care staff were at the attraction when this happened and immediately connected with the family."
Obviously not but YOU DO?
I had a dog that loved to play fetch. But if you held the stick too long, she would take it from you. The problem is that she was totally focused on the stick. Small kids didn’t understand that, and would hold the stick too long. I had to take the stick away from a few over the years, because I was afraid the dog would go for the stick even if the kids fingers were in the way.
This dog would never knowingly hurt anyone, but when it came to p,ay, she was serious!
Pretty sure this was the case with the dolphin. There is a reason Sea World tells guests not to let the dolphins see the plate.
On the one hand, as a parent, I don’t think I’d consent to the idea of my child feeding wild animals.
On the other hand, if I were there, and they had a program going, and it had been going on safely for years, I might think, “It must be safe, there are other kids doing it, their underwriters wouldn’t insure them if this was unusually dangerous.”
LOL!
Neither the kid nor the parents were following the park’s instructions. The dolphin was just doing his job.
(They have to get ready in case he runs in 2016.)
Cetuna! Now with extra dolphin!
Too bad they did not have a pyrannah tank.
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Dolphins are trained by feeding, like any other animal; they don’t have degrees in human behavior.
bump to that
As a kid we would feed the deer at Deer Acres near Frankenmuth, Mich. I don’t know if its still there but I’m talking about the 1950’s. We never had problems but kids still need to be careful. Holding the food where the dolphin could get it wasn’t its fault but the parents. They needed to teach the child to keep the food from the vision of the dolphin until they were ready to feed it. The kids nowadays are not taught like we were growing up.
I would add to that: parents today can’t parent, for fear of the almighty state.
They don’t know how. They weren’t raised normally themselves
Dolphins aren’t fish. :-)
Dolphins should be eaten and not displayed where innocent children can be attacked by them.
That is true. The children of baby boomers, or children of baby boomers children. Indulgence to the extreme.
To repeat what I said in Post #2:
"And yes I said fish.........if it looks like a fish, swims like a fish and smells like a fish, it's a f'n fish!"
agreed
That’s right! Be proud in your willful ignorance!
that too....
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