How to buy and import a domesticated elephant?

[Monty Zoomer]

spyder dryver said:

Do glue factories still exist??

No, glue makes itself nowadays.

srebbe64 said:

you’ll need a strong lorry to move the things around.

They can walk.

Strawman said:

the Pataya Mail said:

They added in mitigation that the hefty creature was a vegetarian who had not previously digested a circus performer.

Oh, well that's alright then.

plasticpig said:

I am starting to investigate the potential of wedding elephant hire. Just like wedding car hire but with elephants instead of cars.

What would the vicar think if everyone started turning up on elephants?

If you do get some elephants remember to make sure you never get your head stuck in their bottoms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYhT6FHEpwY

Anyway, how much would it cost to keep a herd of elephants in quarantine for six months? You might be better off smuggling them in.

[Who me ?]

Monty Zoomer said:

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You might be better off smuggling them in.

Or hire a JUMBO JET

[UnderTheRadar]

Assuming the OP is serious and not having a play with us: Having owned small and large animals your vets bills will be huge as you will have to source a vet from afar. If I called our large animal vet and asked him to stick a rectal thermometer into an elephant I suggest he'd head immediately to M&S Due diligance suggests you gain some first-hand knowledge and West Midlands Safari Park isn't that far and has elephants. Maybe you can arrange a chat. Looking at their fencing and house it's not cheap. I've been next to a wall on a farm where a bull (bovine, so tiddly compared to an elephant) decided to get stroppy and pushed against it and the whole thing bulged outwards with cement pinging out - so to contain an elephant it won't be your average build.

[Victor McDade]

There is also public liability insurance in case this happens:

http://www.wedding-news.co.uk/wedding-elephant-hir...

[stackmonkey]

UnderTheRadar said:

Assuming the OP is serious and not having a play with us: Having owned small and large animals your vets bills will be huge as you will have to source a vet from afar. If I called our large animal vet and asked him to stick a rectal thermometer into an elephant I suggest he'd head immediately to M&S Due diligance suggests you gain some first-hand knowledge and West Midlands Safari Park isn't that far and has elephants. Maybe you can arrange a chat. Looking at their fencing and house it's not cheap. I've been next to a wall on a farm where a bull (bovine, so tiddly compared to an elephant) decided to get stroppy and pushed against it and the whole thing bulged outwards with cement pinging out - so to contain an elephant it won't be your average build.

The OP was serious about it over four years ago, did the research and decided it wasn't worthwhile. He now throws cans of Red Bull at people who post comments without actually reading the thread.

[UnderTheRadar]

Right now I could use a can of Red Bull

[khushy]

I hope this doesnt turn into an "Elephant Task" :-(

[UnderTheRadar]

Ivory much wish this doesn't turn into another pun thread.

[littlegreenfairy]

Radio 4 had an piece about mechanical elephants the other day.

Made me think of this thread.

[stackmonkey]

If you give an elephant Red Bull, does it turn into Dumbo?

[ItsaTVR]

markreilly said:

please see attached photos of his current fondlings.

Edited by markreilly on Sunday 20th November 20:28

I certainly hope you meant "his current foundlings".

Though I hear there are all kinds of exotic adventures available in Thailand...

[Simon Brooks]

Gretchen said:

plasticpig said:

ali_kat said:

Why?

Simple really. I live in the East Midlands which has a high Asian population. Lots of traditional Indian weddings have elephants present. So with some other investors I am starting to investigate the potential of wedding elephant hire. Just like wedding car hire but with elephants instead of cars. Elephant trekking and kids parties also look like good potential income earners.

You do realise though, that, unlike a Limo, you can't park them in your drive.

Yeh. But never gonna get a parking ticket either

[dhf]

ItsaTVR said:

I certainly hope you meant "his current foundlings".

Though I hear there are all kinds of exotic adventures available in Thailand...

Yikes ! They are pics from a Elephant Orphanage i visited in Kenya

[eldar]

The OP Found an elephant?

http://www.wedding-horse.co.uk/elephant.htm

[paulrussell]

plasticpig said:

Someone allready does it: http://www.wedding-horse.co.uk/elephant.htm

That was posted by the op on 11/10/07, so it's not the op's website.

[peterz3]

Try a zoo might let you borrow one
Petetz3

[eldar]

peterz3 said:

Try a zoo might let you borrow one
Petetz3

Brilliant! If only you had pointed that out a decade or so ago......

[anonymous-user]

Whilst I suspect this'll never happen, perhaps it's still worth mentioning that if an elephant is tolerant of;

- Being kept in a small enclosure alone
- 'Walking them'
- Being 'dressed'
- Being ridden

Then they've likely been tortured. Google the 'crush.'