I think we will only know the truth when the kid grows up and a) goes to therapy about this b) sues about this c) says fuck it, was fun.

i'm a nascar driver. i take my 2-month old out on the track on race-meets so he knows how to handle them when he gets older.

Doubt it. He just said on national television that he would do it again, and all he can do is explain his actions - not stop them. I think his words were: "take my zoo, take my house, take everything, I won't stop teaching my children their surrondings" or something like that. Least he isn't a sellout I guess :2 cents:

Whats the wife saying throughout all of this?

"She'll be right, mate!"

She was eaten yesterday... But the cameras missed it so unfortunately it cant be used in adverts or promotions. :2 cents:

Not much different than when they used to let little kids get a kiss on the cheek by a killer whale at Marineland. They could have easily lost their heads.

I think they stopped doing that now. All in the name of "protecting the children."

The footage I saw not only was he holding the child while feeding the croc but then he put the child's feet down on the ground and was holding him and moving him as though he were walking around the area...I think it was a bone head move.

I understand his reasons for wanting his children to be aware of crocs and other wild animals but there are safer ways of doing it

Okay. I'll ask you folks what I've posed to people on another board.

How is this any different from people who allow their small children to be around pit bulls or rottweilers?
They know the animals, they know the animal's tendencies to be aggressive or docile, yet there is still the chance that these dogs will get a wild hair up their ass or "smell meat" and go wild, mauling the child.
Why aren't we taking parents who allow their children to be around these dogs and screaming that their children should be taken away from them and they should be locked up? What's the difference?

Carrie, steve has told us time after time after time that wild animals ARE unpredictable. and they are! have you ever dealt with large reptiles - or even small ones? they are not mammals, and they are not intellegent. and as steve has told us also over and over, he doesn't tame the crocs at australia zoo - he wants them to keep all their natural instincts.

so most of my opinion here is based on what steve irwin has said. the rest is based on the reptiles i have had and cared for in the house - not crocs, but monitors, iguanas and water dragons.

liquidmoe - if the kid moves, the croc is just as likely to go after it first. motion is a way that reptiles find their prey.

50 half eaten babies

51 dingoes and a shrimp on the barbie

so,,if i live next to a gun range and let me 2 year old fire my 9mm,,thats ok???

All of your kids will grow up to be pansies. End of story.

I think kids learn more than most GFY'ers think.

most kids talk fluit when they are like 5 years old.

GFY is more like- keyboard only- can't talk..yet


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My son talks great at 2 years old.

It all depends on one thing..


how big was the croc?




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smart kid then.

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Spooky if that was true he wouldn't have ever been bitten which he has. Any one that thinks they understand a wild animal no matter how long they have handled them is fooling themselves.

Look at Roy Horn from Siegfried & Roy as an example. Another one was that bear expert and his fiance that got killed by an Alaskan Grizzly as well.

Wild animals are unpredictable like us humans :1orglaugh