Who saw Wild Man (I think the name) on Animal Planet last night?

[scooter147]

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Every state should require some sort of licensing and microchipping before one can own a cat or dog. Where I live stray dogs and especially feral cats are a big problem. I know I may take some heat for those comments but that's my opinion. It's a huge problem in a lot of areas and I too worked at an animal shelter for 4 years. The waste of life (euthinasia) that goes on in animal shelters because people are irresponsible is enough to make you sick, literally. While I'm on the soap box I had a lady bring in a box of 7 or 8 kittens, don't remember anymore. I ask where she got them and she told me there were from her cat. I told her I could arrange a low cost spay for the cat. She told me that the cat was at the vet to be spayed and she let the cat have kittens so her kids could she the miracle of birth and a mother cat taking care of her kitten. I replied, well maybe your kids would like to come back in a week and see the miracle of death. Yes I did say it. Truth hurts.

yeah we should have to get chickens chipped too. laughing at the thought that the government should be in the middle of nature.

I realize that some folks think my ideas are extreme. Just so you know I'm not a fanatic or some extremist about it. However, I suggest that if every one spent just one week at a animal shelter they may have a different view on it. Trust me when I say there are far too many people who treat pets as some disposable object. The shelter I worked for we euthanised over 5,000 dogs and cats in one year. Simply too many animals and not enough homes. The biggest issue was owners not sterlizing their pets.

 

[WestfarthingHomestead]

Oh, we love the Call of the Wildman! In reality t.v. there's tons of editing, because, let's face it, real life is boring if you follow it minute by minute. It doesn't go fast enough to hold a t.v. audience's attention. I think we can figure out forselves what's real and what isn't, like the chicken coop needing a door in the first place. Duh. We think of the show as *entertainment* first and Wildman certainly is entertaining for us.

If you go to his Facebook page, you'll notice he lists his occupation as 'entertainer' not 'animal handler' or whatever. He is what he is and we think he's very funny.

 

[lilchick]

The first time I watched the show I was speechless! To think anyone would get in a stinking pond to catch a worthless turtle no less.. He was saving them from being bulldozed under? Ha! a turtle can crawl out of the pond and travel for miles on it's own. And they burrow down in the mud anyway so what was he saving?

And the fox episode was crazy. Did you listen to the commentary about a chicken lays eggs for three years and are valuable livestock costing a thousand dollars each. I did the math and that makes eggs worth around a dollar each! I want me one of those expensive chickens....

So it is very obvious the show is staged with very poor actors in the background.. Catch a skunk by hand when he said live trap wouldn't work in shed well he had 3 other live traps in there also. duh.. I think it is funny he bathes in rain barrel. I saw a fairly new outhouse in the background shot of his yard. Probably for the film crew to use....

His name is Ernie Brown and he lives in Lebanon, Kentucky. Next trip thru on our harley I am gonna stop and get my picture taken with him... Who knows he may be famous one day. Actually I find him entertaining, especially the episode where he caught a coon in a general store. He rubbed coon pee all over himself to disguise his smell in order to catch him, yep by hand!

 

[scooter147]

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I caught that "chicken math" too, so I quite my day job the next day/

By my math if a GOOD hen lays 300 eggs per year that's 25 dozen a year. And if you can find someone willing to pay you $4 per dozen for cage free eggs thats $100/year/hen.
I wonder if Wild Man will be able to get indoor plumbing with the royalties from the show?

 

[mxpres]

I have caught turtles for years,and I am telling you,,you do not,go into an open pool of water and catch a turtle of that size,If you notice,they didn't show him actually catching the turtle by hand,only after he went into the pond carrying the turtle did they start the film.A turtle of that size will pull a grown man under if he tries to grab something he can't see ,You stand a chance of losing an arm,leg.or your life.,,But tv sells to the public and he is intertaining and a bit off the wall,

 

[moetrout]

That guy is hilarious! I've only managed to catch one episode where he gets bit by a woodchuck! Staged or not,,,,,funny stuff right there!

 

[Debbiesflocks]

You really want to see some real goobers watch Gold Rush.

 

[lilchick]

Yeah Gold Rush is a real winner.. My hubby watches it and I critique it...

They could not find their butt with both hands, let alone find gold..

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Yah the show is staged. Gold Rush is super cool. My bantam Wyandotte and I sit on the couch and watch it when it's raining out.

 

[cw]

Being the first kentuckian to post a reply to the thread, let me say this. he makes me sad to be from kentucky, we are not like that, I live 2 couties over within 20 miles from his county, people do not poach turtles out here, the turtle meat is not worth 100 dollars a pound, and as sad as some of you may think it is... farmers dont call him to take care of coons in old cars parked in the woods, they just shoot em, I am glad he is on tv. I just wish he would represent ky as it really is, we arent poor hicks who bath in rain barrels, and swim in crap ponds.and we dont cut down trees on top of are selves. If he can make a living entertaining the rest of the nation more power to him, but it is entertainment only, its all made up even the crawd that came to watch him pull the turtle out of the pond, we have much better things to do