2026. Back foot trim with urine burn on huge African bull elephant.

Elephant Care Unchained
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Jun 8, 2026
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Helping with a common problem with captive elephants urine burn. This bull is well trained and just needed a little touch-up pointers with a focus on the inside of back feet.
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedA professional demonstrates the process of trimming and cleaning an elephant's nails and feet. The session focuses on removing overgrowth, treating cracked nails, and cleaning debris and urine tracks to maintain the animal's foot health, while emphasizing the importance of regular scrubbing and hygiene.
Good boy.
It's okay, buddy.
This knife's actually not that sharp, but you might as well...
Just scraping it down, yeah?
Better knife.
Sorry, excuse me.
Steve will do the first leg.
What?
We were talking about that you will do the first foot.
Yeah, yeah.
Then they will do the second one.
Yeah.
Thank you, buddy.
Good boy.
I'm gonna smell good for lunch.
Just eat and go.
Yeah, exactly, right?
Yeah.
Right.
He's okay with...
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, no, it's always very sensitive.
But again, small knife, sharp knife.
Sharp knife.
And again, I shave it off.
Yeah.
Okay?
This is...
Yeah, so...
Yeah.
And then he's got some overgrowth here.
Federica doesn't have this problem with...
Yeah.
Yeah, the other two had nice, real nice cuticles.
Yeah.
And so...
So...
We just need to be...
We just need to be better about scrubbing.
Yeah, and cleaning it.
Good boy, Leon.
Good boy.
Yeah, I'll go all around it.
But this is the important part now.
Yeah, so...
And I'll rest the nails.
And then before we let him put it down,
we'll come back and we'll scrub it again.
And you'll see it.
It'll be all nice and clean.
We just gotta stay on top of it.
Yeah?
It's okay, Baba.
It's okay.
Stone was just in there.
You okay?
You tired?
Yeah, he has been always moving his feet.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I had one who used to kick me all the time.
So at my zoo, she'd go...
It's okay.
Good boy.
What's going on here?
What's this?
Okay.
Now I'm just gonna go around.
I wanna do more, but...
I feel like...
I feel irritated with what I'm doing there.
It's starting to get white,
so you guys know to kind of back off, yeah?
It's okay, Baba.
Good boy.
Can we hose this again?
That's a good boy.
Very good.
Very good boy.
Funky stuff here.
What's this?
What's this over here?
You can see this nail's cracking, right?
Yeah.
It's this long.
So we'll bring it up.
This is it when he walks, you know,
he's gonna rub that nail.
It's okay.
Hi.
These nails don't feel like soft to me
or anything different.
Yeah, yeah.
Let me see.
Good boy.
Good.
It's okay.
No, it's too much.
Too much, too much.
You're good.
Okay, good.
Good.
Easy, easy.
Good boy.
Very good.
Small knife, small knife.
There it is.
Okay.
So he's got this nail here.
This is...
So we're just gonna...
He's got this crack or split here, right?
So, again, pressure.
So when we rasp it, like I said last time,
the hole automatically gets shallow.
So now it's got room to come down a little bit.
I'm just gonna clean it up to see what we got.
I just take my knife and I go over the top of it
just to kind of...
I want to start digging into it just yet
because I can't quite see what's going on.
Now I'm gonna start doing that little tear thing again.
Okay.
You can see nothing there, which is good.
It just kind of stops right here, okay?
So I'll take my rasp again and go over that,
and then automatically that's gonna be shallow.
So if you're not helping me out here, are you?
Okay.
Getting my yoga in today.
I can do the splits, by the way, guys, just so you know.
Not bad for an old man.
Okay.
This is just a track of urine.
Around here, come down.
It's a track of urine, yeah?
It smells like it and it's black like it.
Good boy.
Not yet.
Handsome.
Two more minutes.
Two more minutes with this one.
Good.
Where was I?
Down here, okay.
So I'm just gonna open up this little track here.
Okay.
And scrape it a little bit to see what we got.
That's just, like I said, from the urine.
Does that make sense what I'm talking about, guys?
It comes down here and it sits?
Okay.
And you'll see it with your elephant.
Okay, that's what it is.
So let's be better about scrubbing.
Clean him up.
We won't have these problems, yeah?
Just a little bit there.
Yeah, use my hand.
Check it out.
Okay, that could be something later.
So we just take it off.
No big deal.
Okay.
No big deal.
You guys see anything?
Pretty good there.
Maybe a little bit here.
A little bit here.
Good boy.
Hang on a second there, Handsome.
Hang on, Handsome.
Okay, hang on a second.
This stinks.
Okay.
