Elephant chained up next to a garbage dump for years has the best reaction when he finally gets to walk (and swim!) free
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00:00He'd also been used as a logging elephant in the past, so it really took its toll on
00:08his body.
00:09He's covered in scars from the traumas.
00:12You can see by his back that he's had a tough working life.
00:17It was really shocking emotionally for me.
00:19We knew we needed to take action right away because otherwise he was going to be sent
00:23back into the logging industry.
00:24The goal is to raise funds to help him out.
00:30We're here with Canun and the goal is?
00:34The goal is to get him off his chain guys as quickly as possible.
00:36Canun needs a good life and we've got a sanctuary willing to take him.
00:39It takes us around 45 days more or less to complete the funds.
00:43Here comes Canun.
00:45After we raised the money we knew that we started taking him home.
00:54We all met at Canun's camp.
00:56This is a kind of a stressed time because we need to load Canun to the truck and he
01:01never used to do that.
01:02We were warned, look this could take anything from 30 minutes to 5 hours to get Canun onto
01:08the truck.
01:09It's pouring rain and he just walked onto that truck.
01:17His owner even said I think he knows he's going somewhere better.
01:21I think it was about 8 hours that we were driving behind this elephant in a truck.
01:32And he's just waving his bamboo.
01:34It was absolutely amazing.
01:42We went to the sanctuary and he got a welcome buffet.
01:45This is waiting for Canun here.
01:48Unchaining him literally was a mind-blowing experience.
01:55Unchaining him literally and figuratively.
01:58Just the feeling for him knowing that he was never going to suffer like that ever again
02:03was mind-blowing.
02:06Here with Canun.
02:07He's taking a mud bath all by himself.
02:10He's purring and talking and throwing mud.
02:13He's so happy.
02:16He adapted overnight.
02:17Literally overnight.
02:18He was a different elephant the next day.
02:24On the second day when I was leaving, he was that dusky grey from throwing mud and dirt
02:29on himself.
02:32He was learning how to barge.
02:37Canun's rescue has totally inspired us to keep going and keep trying to rescue more
02:42elephants.
02:43Thanks to everyone involved and supporting this rescue, Canun was able to live out the
02:48remainder of his life in freedom and shame free.