laura wins the wounded weekend warrior award for this year.
Carol · Sep 22, 2012
she bravely put herself between an increasingly overstimulated and overwhelmed brad pitt and her tour group...laura took the swipe of his tusk on her leg. she ended up with 2 layers of deep tissue sutures and a final layer of staples to pull her leg back together again.
so sorry you were injured laura, hope you feel better soon.
and this is a perfect opportunity to remind everyone to be careful around all of our animals but especially the large barn guys. the barn guys weigh many hundreds of pounds, they are extremely large and powerful creatures...one irritated head swing can do a lot of damage to us frail humans. we need to be very respectful of their personal space and boundries, their moods and esp. their strength.
brad is a great and gentle pig...and that damage was minimal compared to what he really could do. i think we all forget sometimes the risks here because our animals are so good. but we need at all times to remember that first and foremost this is an animal sanctuary and not a petting zoo.