Pink Elephants? Try animal abuse

[Lady's Human]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/17/pai....ap/index.html

Painting an elephant as art?

[Karen]

Well, it does say

" Tai has done many, many movies," owner Kari Johnson said. "She's used to makeup." But what make-up covers one's whole body, and besides, why would elephants need make-up for a movie???

At least the paint was nontoxic, and elephants enjoy baths - but wouldn't having a beautiful just-as-she-is elephant been just as effective? YES!

[Lady's Human]

I just know what "non-toxic" camo paint feels like when I'm covered in it, and don't think the elephant feels much better. Just don't think a painted nuffalump counts as art.

[BC_MoM]

I don't think that's animal abuse. When I took riding lessons, our instructor would paints parts of the horse for our theory classes.

[lizbud]

It's an abuse against common sense. A really dumb idea.

[animal_rescue]

I don't think it's abuse... We used to(and still can) paint our horses in 4-h for Contesting Day. It's quite fun and none of the horse mind. Heck we'll even paint ourselves, so we match the horses!

[BC_MoM]

I don't think it's abuse... We used to(and still can) paint our horses in 4-h for Contesting Day. It's quite fun and none of the horse mind. Heck we'll even paint ourselves, so we match the horses!

Fun times! I remember doing that for Halloween contests at the stable.

[K9soul]

I would think paint over some fur (such as on a horse) would feel different than paint directly on the skin. The paint is clogging the skin pores it would seem like, on the elephant, whereas on a horse, the paint is over the hair and not directly on the skin so much... I could be wrong though. I don't know much about the elephant's situation, but my first inclination is that I don't care for it.

[Husky15]

Technically, I don't think this is abuse. But I'm sure the elephant doesn't favor this...

[Miss Z]

Gah, what a pointless thing to do Paint is for paper, not elephants.

[Lady's Human]

My argument against this is simple. Wouldn't the artistic statement have been served just as well by a fiberglass elephant instead of a live animal?

I know what it feels like to have most of the pores on my body (Arms, legs and face) clogged with camo paint. I can't see the elephant feeling much better.

[gini]

Good grief, I just saw this on the CNN site - and my first reaction was WHY, WHY, WHY, do you need to paint an elephant.

Completely unnecessary and outrageous.

An elephant as art? AN ELEPHANT 'IS' ART - IN ITS NATURAL STATE - YOU IDIOT!!

Sorry for the rant, but these kind of things really get me going............in the wrong direction.

[catnapper]

Wow, thats stupid.

Does anyone watch "Myth Busters"? They did a show based on the girl from the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" where the girl died from being painted gold. They painted the one Mythbuster with gold latex paint. He had some serious physical reactions, mainly alarmingly high bloodpressure. His body reacted badly to not being able to breathe. Wouldn't an elephant's body also do the same?

[Karen]

Wow, thats stupid.

Does anyone watch "Myth Busters"? They did a show based on the girl from the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" where the girl died from being painted gold. They painted the one Mythbuster with gold latex paint. He had some serious physical reactions, mainly alarmingly high bloodpressure. His body reacted badly to not being able to breathe. Wouldn't an elephant's body also do the same?

They used "body paint" which, like make-up, does allow the skin to "breathe" more than a latex paint would, but I don't even tolerate make-up, and cannot image te elephant was very comfortable.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

AN ELEPHANT 'IS' ART - IN ITS NATURAL STATE - YOU IDIOT!!

Exactly! poor thing looked really fed up