Animals - Lions - Lions Diary - 5

Diary, Page 5, Wednesday 11.4.2007 The first guest city - Landshut A cordial greeting from Diamond to everyone who treasures the extraordinary. Welcome to my diary. Today, I will relate our Easter adventures with Krone. Thusly informed, please listen. You will be astonished and amazed. Always worth a visit, is the Krone Zoo with its 250 animals from four continents. But now - with our two lions beauties - still much more to enjoy. For those who do not already know, here are some things to remember. Everyone can visit the Krone City starting from 10 o'clock and observe the inner workings of Europe's largest circus. The kitchen, school, fire-brigade, power station, work shops and offices of all kinds (tailor, upholstery dept., carpenter's workshop, auto garage). There is each morning animal training in the ring of the the largest chapiteau, designed for 5.000 persons. The "Messepark" park in Landshut is ideally suited for Circus Krone, large with solid ground and sufficient space for setting up the stable tents and external enclosure. And we have the best overview. Directly opposite, the elephants waltz throughout the day. Among them is the largest bull elephant in the world, COLONEL JOE with 7 tons, 3,50 tall and 1,80 meter long snow-white tusks. Colonel Joe is rather large - wouldn't you say? Right beside is the exotic animals stall tent with zebras, camels, lamas, ponies, goats - and boar Fritzi, a new acquisition from Bad Dürkheim. Not that he is on the same level as we are - however his story is nevertheless very amusing, how a butcher found him, raised him and gave him to Circus Krone. Somehow touching. He now has a pig pen, toys and a lot of leisure time. Zebras and Camels are rambunctious with this great weather in Landshut and romp also at night in the open enclosure. They have a fantastic exotic animal tree in their enclosure, with an extra portion leaves brushes to rub and scratch and an extra portion leaves. They like that. Also those horses march several times a day from their tall into the manège and back . All the stallions eside in single apartments. Four times a day, they receive feed, are brushed and groomed, much to the horse's delight. One says the horses are her the favorite animals of circus directress Christel Sembach Krone are. But that was certainly before we arrived on the scene ... At the rear left at the tent those lives brown lion Armada. She has additional indian rubber balls with which to play, pedestals, enormous scratching trees and branches with new leaves. In her mobile home is, in addition, a swimming pool. With the increase of temperature the pool is immediately put to use with a temperature starting at 25° Wellness pure! "Gründonnerstag", by the way, was the summer premiere in the Circus Krone and everybody was in good mood. Sold out - more beautifully can the season not begin. We were not yet "live", but KING TONGA told us after his appearance of everything that happened. The tent was packed, there were repeated applause and curtain calls for Martin Lacey jr... I can hardly await the first day of training and to receive my my loving caresses. For the moment, we are still developing our "mutual trust". Good Friday was a performances free day, a so-called "quiet day", but the Krone Zoo was opened and in the afternoon at 14.00 there was a public animal and artist rehearsal in the manège. Martin Lacey Jr. started things off by granting a question and answer session after which he was surrounded by admirers as if he were Robbie Williams. But he did not come to us. We received a visit Dr. Lendl, our animal doctor from Augsburg. With the help of a long blow pipe she inoculated us against cat epidemics and cat cold. It was very exciting and above all the many spectators and their remarks. We will always remember that! P.S. My first Easter was full surprises. There was an easter egg hunt for the Krone Kids in the Manège, several there were several newspaper and radio reports. The day before yesterday a small sensation: Princess got her permanent teeth. She looks completely beautifully grown-up to and everyone is proud of our lion princesses. One has to be proud of the restoration of the Circus Krone cafe bar, which is under the management of Nina Pilz . The pictures "Night & Day" are placed here as an attractive invitation to all Krone fans to frequent the establishment.

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