Only some of Jackson's former pets know of tragic death
The former actress Tippi Hedren now runs an animal sanctuary for exotic beasts -- retired circus lions and such -- and took the tigers from Michael Jackson's small zoo when it was closed down in 2005. She let a reporter know that she took the trouble to inform the tigers of their former owner's death: "I went up and sat with them for a while and let them know that Michael was gone. You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal. But I hope they understood."
She doesn't say whether the tigers were disappointed that they never got to kill and consume their former owner. I have the feeling that's really the only thing on the mind of a tiger: Prey or not?
In the same vein, in this rundown of Jackson's other exotic pets and what happened to them, when asked whether Jackson's chimp Bubbles has been informed of his owner's death, the directory of the sanctuary where the chimp now lives says, "We haven't said anything to him yet."
This whole subject leaves me at a loss. I understand Hedren wanting to piggyback on the media coverage of Jackson's death and raise awareness of her animal sanctuary; perhaps a Jackson fan or two might make a donation. But what went through the mind of the reporter who asked the director of the Florida chimp sanctuary whether Bubbles had been "informed" of Jackson's death? Perhaps she wanted to know whether there was a living being anywhere on the earth who was not yet sick of the incessant coverage.
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this is the best coverage of the whole MJ media circus that I've read or heard yet
I heard the Sanford was having an affair with the llama, and that is why he died, of heartache over the governors' depredations with the llama.