Title: Lion Ark Directed by: Tim Phillips Featuring Appearances by: Bob Barker, Jorja Fox, Jan Creamer, Pat Derby Running time: 97 minutes, Unrated, Limited Release Animal Defenders International (Adi) is an animal rescue organization who has been working undercover in South American circuses and finding serious cases of animal abuse. In Bolivia, animal circuses are banned. Adi rescues 25 lions from these roaming circuses, most of whom are malnourished, mistreated and on the verge of death. Some of these despicable people who run the circuses would rather kill these lions than give them up. With generous donations and support by Bob Barker (The Price is Right) and actress Jorja Fox [ Read More ]
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- 7/17/2013
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Sacramento, Calif. — Pat Derby – a former Hollywood trainer for Flipper, Lassie and other performing animals who later devoted her life to protecting them after seeing widespread abuse – has died at age 69, her organization said Monday.
Derby, who had throat cancer, died Friday at her home in the biggest of the animal sanctuaries run by her organization, the Performing Animal Welfare Society, or Paws, in San Andreas, Calif., outside Sacramento. Her longtime partner and the organization's co-founder, Ed Stewart, was at her side, a Paws statement said.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Derby worked on television shows like "Flipper," "Daktari," "Gunsmoke" and "Lassie," and wrangled a pair of pumas, Chauncey and Christopher, that appeared with model-actress Farrah Fawcett in popular commercials for the Mercury Cougar.
Derby said that she developed her own training methods based on love and trust, but was stunned by the abuse and neglect she saw among other...
Derby, who had throat cancer, died Friday at her home in the biggest of the animal sanctuaries run by her organization, the Performing Animal Welfare Society, or Paws, in San Andreas, Calif., outside Sacramento. Her longtime partner and the organization's co-founder, Ed Stewart, was at her side, a Paws statement said.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Derby worked on television shows like "Flipper," "Daktari," "Gunsmoke" and "Lassie," and wrangled a pair of pumas, Chauncey and Christopher, that appeared with model-actress Farrah Fawcett in popular commercials for the Mercury Cougar.
Derby said that she developed her own training methods based on love and trust, but was stunned by the abuse and neglect she saw among other...
- 2/19/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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