Can we skip the biography montages, and get to the recreations / footage? Sorry, but this feels like 30 minutes worth of TV stretched into 60.
My thoughts exactly -- 30 minutes of material crammed into an hour. This show misses a real opportunity to educate people about the dangers of owning animals that cannot ever be truly domesticated, but the producers aren't interested in education, merely titillation.
Most pet shops are the same way. They want to sell you the animal but don't educate you especially with birds and reptiles. I used to take my Amazon parrot to a local park like Balboa or out to the beach and talk to people who thought that it would be so fun to have a parrot. A lot of people changed their minds probably when told that they can be moody, happy, and a multitude of other moods and behaviors in ten minutes time. Parrots bite for no reason that is apparent unless one knows the body language or can interpret the situation and parrots like mine can bite to the bone and the larger parrots can take a finger off. I did this because I wanted to save parrots from being passed from home to home or being abused because people were not aware of their natural behavior. To this day I hope I did some good and kept some parrots from being spur of the moment purchases.There are a lot of animals out there that are bought on the spur of the moment without education so I agree that this show could be of more benefit on education. At least Ming was spared and put into an animal sanctuary.
shareIt works well with Tivo, Ripley
I record it on my DVR. Fast forward through commercials. Show goes a million times faster that way.
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yes this show is quite dragged out, 30 minutes would be perfect.
everybody here, comes from somewhere
"My thoughts exactly -- 30 minutes of material crammed into an hour. This show misses a real opportunity to educate people about the dangers of owning animals that cannot ever be truly domesticated, but the producers aren't interested in education, merely titillation."
And I thought that that is what most of the episodes are about--educating people about the dangers of owning those animals. I don't have a problem with the length of the show because they usually talk about 2 or 3 similar stories at the same time.
"We're "us". You're "them". We don't help "thems". Sorry. --Paige
I DVR the show so I can skim through commercials and sometimes I do it through the bio's but I'm glad I didn't with the Tiger in Harlem episode because the way Antoine's brother, Aaron, told the story had me in stitches. Especially the part about the old folk's home across the street and nobody believing they saw a tiger in the window.
They didn't mention that he also had an alligator.
Yeah, most of the episodes I just FF on my TiVo through about the first two-thirds; but a few episodes are worth watching a bit more.
shareThird season has been especially good...concentrating on a single storyline during the hour has made for some compelling TV, especially the one about the hippo. Too bad they seem to order only 6 or so episodes lately.
shareAfter a few episodes, I cancelled my TiVo season pass for this show. After a while, it's just more of the same idiocy, padded w/irrelevant detail, only with different animals. I'd rather watch something pleasant or mentally challenging.
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