Terrel Jacobs
Posted By thecircusblog on March 5, 2009
This photo taken in the early or mid 1930’s on Ringling or Al G. Barnes. Terrel looks very comfortable here with this full arena. The big cat trainers of the circus had a very special talent….they could read their cats. Constant care, close relations and the trainer always being the pride leader were necessary ingredients for a good cat act. But there are still are problems within the groups that can cause trouble…. females in heat and males trying to dominant other males. I remember one time a new prop hand set the arena wall seats out of order. Nobody noticed the problem until the cats came in and it was mayhem for a few minutes. Pat Anthony was the act, he ran them out of the arena fixed the seats and we ran them back in. Never saw the prop hand again.
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