Mischievous baby elephant causes havoc inside home

**L_Mariachi** · February 17, 2016, 7:43pm

What, you’d want it freaking the hell out whenever it found itself indoors?

**astrootter** · February 17, 2016, 8:23pm

“As the baby elephant has grown, he has become something of a nuisance in
the House. He grabs things off kitchen counters, knocks over plants,
sticks spoons in his mouth, and pees on the floor.”

But enough about Congressional Republicans…

HA!

**Mister44** · February 17, 2016, 8:25pm

Maybe he should be an outside elephant…

**Norzhi** · February 17, 2016, 8:35pm

I wonder if he likes silver for the taste or because it’s shiny.

**anon73629133** · February 17, 2016, 8:39pm

"Yes, I’d like something like the Grand Pyrenees experience, but perhaps with a bit less hair. "

**logruszed** · February 17, 2016, 8:42pm

I don’t know if it’s the same with Asian and African elephants but our young male isn’t much bigger than this guy and he just started puberty. He pretty much humps everything, or tries to, including his mother.

So she might want to consider getting rid of this guy pretty soon.

**Mangochin** · February 17, 2016, 8:48pm

Nah, my housecat does far worse things on a daily basis.

**jsroberts** · February 17, 2016, 8:52pm

Yeah, but nobody wants to talk about it, so everyone just pretends it’s not there.

**Mister44** · February 17, 2016, 9:00pm

You own an elephant?

**Modusoperandi** · February 17, 2016, 9:08pm

It’s too late now. It’s not like it’ll forget.

**logruszed** · February 17, 2016, 9:20pm

Where I work we own a medium sized herd of Asian elephants. I’m not a keeper but the keepers are mostly cool about limited animal encounters like VIPs get. Most of us who have worked there more than a couple of years have gotten to feed, touch, or even hold animals. My favorite was holding a bald eagle They really are large birds like the beak could easily rip out your entire throat but they weigh nothing. Even knowing birds don’t weigh much it was shocking at how little it weighed compared to my expectations.

No interactions with animals that are dangerous, although I think when we had lion cubs and caracal cubs some folks got to hold them but I don’t have first hand information on that.

**GagHalfrunt** · February 17, 2016, 10:01pm

He’s the elephant in the room.

**renke** · February 17, 2016, 11:15pm

the elephant flap is larger than the door frame

**gellfex** · February 17, 2016, 11:50pm

Lets see, a growing wild elephant that is determined to be in the house. He’s not housebroken, but with a little more growth will give a whole new meaning to that term.

Would a wild herd not adopt him if he’s weaned? I thought elephants were good that way.

**d_r** · February 18, 2016, 4:12am

Needs a Mancini score:

**anon68952647** · February 18, 2016, 4:29am

jealous! That sounds like a very rewarding perk.

Just today i was “lamenting” that my wild Bald Eagle sightings are more of an every few hours thing rather than some big deal like it used to be.

Thanks Rachel Carson!

**Brainspore** · February 18, 2016, 4:42am

Remember watching “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and thinking how silly Hagrid was for thinking that keeping a baby Dragon in his home could possibly end well?

This woman saw that scene differently.

**anon68952647** · February 18, 2016, 4:55am

That’s a groovy question. Maybe mouthfeel?

**simonize** · February 18, 2016, 3:39pm

A few years ago I was at the National Zoo in DC where they have added a couple of large enclosures for their elephants. In the morning, they were gathered around the gate between the enclosures waiting for a keeper to let them into the other enclosure. When I passed them again in the after noon they were hanging around the gate on the other side, waiting for a keeper to let them into the first enclosure. I couldn’t help but think “They’re just giant cats. If there’s a door, they want to be on the other side of it.”

**frauenfelder** · February 22, 2016, 6:57pm

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