Poor Camel ...

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Do I see some camel toe? ;)
He was kicking butt and taking names.
 

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Don't kid yourselves people.
I've had a lot of dealings with camels over the years and they are the only animal I seriously dislike.
Make your jokes, but they are not fun.
 

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I know it's of no concern to moderators or long term members here, but I would like to say that 7 people I've shown this thread's remarks to, consider it racist, sexist or both.
i do not expect anything other than you lot ganging up together again , so please don't bother to reply.
 

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People come to my place and see my calm sweet camel and I always try to tell them, "Be careful. They aren't all like this."

I've dealt with some pretty bad apples and that makes for an exciting day, but I gotta say I do love them. They are pretty neat animals. My daughter and her school friend got a ride on my Lily camel this afternoon. Lily did not pick up anyone by their head today...

All the horse people know that horses have a "horse smell" to them. Well camels have their own "camel smell" too, and I can still smell it on my clothes right now...
 

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I must say, that's a pretty healthy-looking camel. Very pretty animal. I wonder what the guy in the blue shirt has in his hand that he's trying to poke the animal with.
 

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I must say, that's a pretty healthy-looking camel. Very pretty animal. I wonder what the guy in the blue shirt has in his hand that he's trying to poke the animal with.
Yep, it's a good looking camel, they're worth a lot of money, serious money.
Just a stick in the hand is usual.
 

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I also noticed that a couple of the earlier statements did sound sexist or racist to me.
I routed for the camel on this one. Those guys were just escalating the camels agitation and deserved what he got. They're probably lucky they didn't get kicked to death.
 

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I'm not going to say that these guys are, or are not, expert camel trainers, but y'all should know that camels in general are a pretty unruly bunch. It takes a lot of skill, time and effort to tame them down into the gentle beasts that they can be.

Some of them are deadly.

I'm having trouble understanding why people are rooting for the camel here when the camel is the one initiating the attack. Perhaps some unfair assumptions are being made...?
 
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I'm not going to say that these guys are, or are not, expert camel trainers, but y'all should know that camels in general are a pretty unruly bunch. It takes a lot of skill, time and effort to tame them down into the gentle beasts that they can be.

Some of them are deadly.

I'm having trouble understanding why people are rooting for the camel here when the camel is the one initiating the attack. Perhaps some unfair assumptions are being made...?
Exactly, these guys do not have skill. Do they think running around a tree is going to help the camel calm down? I'm not sure what they were doing or what their goal was. I've never been that close to a camel and ever tried handling them. But if I was that close to any other large animals such as a horse that was that pissed off you bet you I wouldn't be trying to get close to it or running in circles around the tree. If that is a stick the man has in his hand it's a darn short one. I can't think of any use a stick would have in that situation no matter how big or small the stick is. This video reminds me of one I saw where the man branded the horse and the horse probably kicked him right out of the frame of the picture. Sort of poetic justice in away. The man did something that angered the horse and the horse retaliated easily because the man was in the wrong position to avoid being kept.
So if I making unfair assumptions then I guess I am. Or maybe we or trying to hard to analyze a video that I personally found amusing.
 

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It's a knife in the man's hand, seems like they were trying to slit the camels throat.
 

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Look again and you'll see the blood/wound
 

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Yes it's a knife . They are trying to kill it and eat it maybe . I bet the wish they had a gun to shoot it . I've always wondered how people killed big animals over seas . I guess now I know . The hard way .
 

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Knifing a camel? When I guess I want to kill an elephant I will use a wiffle bat. ;)
 

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It's a knife in the man's hand, seems like they were trying to slit the camels throat.
I wondered if that was what they were doing. Now I definitely route for the camel. Although I wish if they were going to kill it they would just shoot it. Seems more humane that way.
 

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Exsanguination is probably the most common method of slaughter for larger animals, though in many places the animals are restrained and usually knocked out beforehand for the reasons evident in the video.

It's possible that that they were trying to keep with certain religious laws while slaughtering it.
 

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Castration (OUCH) perhaps,?
 

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