Collin County Living Well Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 11

What could go Wrong with Live Animals on TV?

It’s the question everyone wants to ask: What could possibly go wrong when bringing live and unpredictable animals onto live TV?
“Actually, we’ve got a few funny stories. Once an ostrich
kicked over a $500 lamp; another time a camel had diarrhea.
Honestly, you’re not going to do TV with live animals for 30
years and not have a few things happen. Still, we don’t always
talk about them. Ninety-nine percent of problems that happen are the person’s fault,” Jungle Jack insists. In fact, it
was a beaver, “a beaver, if you can believe it,” that took
Hanna down. “It was 1987, and I was doing an appearance
on Letterman, when the beaver bit th ɽ՝