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Circus elephant involved in accident treated and released

An elephant that escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds is pictured in the wake of the Wednesday accident. (AP Photo/Enid News & Eagle, Billy Hefton)

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 11/6/2009 1:01 PM
Last Modified: 11/6/2009 1:01 PM

OKLAHOMA CITY — A circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle in northwestern Oklahoma is apparently back with its owner.

An Oklahoma State University spokesman says the elephant was treated by veterinarians at the school and released to its owner. The spokesman declined to talk specifically about the animal's injuries except to say they were not major.

A report filed by Enid police says Douglas Terranova of Kaufman, Texas, is the elephant's owner. Terranova did not immediately return a phone message left Friday.

A volunteer for the animal rights group In Defense of Animals says it plans to file a complaint against Terranova with the U.S. Department of Agriculture concerning the Wednesday incident.

And a USDA complaint says two elephants owned by Terranova escaped from a circus in Kansas in June 2008.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

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	Report Comment :), (11/6/2009 1:13:38 PM) Oh... released to the owner. After reading the headline I thought maybe they set the elephant free to run back out in the highway.
	Report Comment 2ndjoyce, BA (11/6/2009 1:21:24 PM) This man is not a very responsible elephant owner! (Never in my lifetime did I image I would write that sentence.)
	Report Comment lucky girl, mine (11/6/2009 1:33:22 PM) How can you keep from laughing. Everytime I see anything on this I just start laughing. How the heck do you lose an elephant and then not miss it? You are so right Joyce, he's not.
	Report Comment 2ndjoyce, BA (11/6/2009 1:34:26 PM) I never imagined I could not spell imagine. Imagine that!
	Report Comment Arbythree, Tulsa (11/6/2009 1:37:19 PM) The owner should have known the elephant was planning to escape, he had his trunk packed.
	Report Comment Ric, Broken Arrow (11/6/2009 1:57:21 PM) Arby...my gosh!
	Report Comment Ric, Broken Arrow (11/6/2009 1:58:27 PM) I wonder if they can 'Gorilla Glue' his tusk back on?
	Report Comment lucky girl, mine (11/6/2009 1:59:17 PM) Arby wins today!
	Report Comment Eringobrah62, (11/6/2009 2:11:22 PM) tusk, tusk
	Report Comment T J M, Nowata (11/6/2009 10:34:37 PM) TW needs to look at a map, last time I checked Enid was not in Northwestern Oklahoma, more like north central.
	Report Comment mommy2be, Enid (11/7/2009 10:55:13 PM) no we are more west than you think! there was an article in the enid paper about this today. the couple said that they forgot their cell phones at home and tried to flag people down to call 911 because they just hit an elephant and the people looked at them and said you mean a cow? lmao!

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