Pink Elephants? Try animal abuse

[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.