00:00Hi, I'm Joseph Fawcett, this is Rebecca Fawcett, my wife.
00:03The camels have actually been in quite a few films over the years.
00:06From Aladdin to Death on the Nile,
00:10The Aeronauts, Nativity, that was their first one.
00:14They've also done motion capture in John Carter for Assassin's Creed.
00:18Only camel in the world, I think, to have done motion capture.
00:21She had a sort of ninja outfit made for her.
00:24They've met a few celebs along the way, haven't they?
00:26Oh, they certainly have.
00:27Who have they had riding them?
00:29Jeremy Clarkson.
00:30Oh, he wasn't very good.
00:31And Richard Hammond's also ridden them, hasn't he? He's raced them.
00:33And then we've had David Cameron's children on.
00:36We have, they have.
00:37And Michael Goad.
00:38Michael Goad.
00:39And, you know...
00:40God, there's so many.
00:41They've met a lot of actors along the way because of the films they've been in, haven't they?
00:45Yes.
00:46Fawcett's the oldest circus family in the country, my family.
00:49We go back to the 18th century.
00:51I was a wild animal trainer.
00:52I've trained lions and tigers and elephants,
00:56brown bird, black bird, polar, everything pretty well.
00:59And I love animals.
01:01I stole the idea from someone else to do camel racing.
01:05And I always remember my brother laughed at me.
01:07He said, you'll never make a living at that.
01:09But there you are, we're still here.
01:1225 years later.
01:13Exactly.
01:14And counting.
01:15And counting.
01:16It feels like 50 years later.
01:19No, but we did the Three Kings and the Camels around Christmas time, which is great.
01:23I mean, you know, the Three Kings riding through the middle of the town.
01:26And we do camel trekking here at home.
01:28You know, where people come to us and they get an opportunity to ride a camel.
01:32They've probably never seen a camel before, which is really exciting.
01:35And we do weddings with camels.
01:37We do parties, camel rides, everything you can think of.
01:43I ended up, by accident, training to be a wild animal presenter, an apprentice.
01:51And Joe turned up one day.
01:54I was training with Dickie Chipperfield, Joe's mentor.
01:58And this man in the green puffer jumped over the tunneling.
02:02And I looked at him and he looked at me.
02:03And then he went into the ring.
02:05And Dickie called me and said, can you bring me a bucket of meat, please?
02:08Because we use chunks of raw meat on bamboo sticks to train the lions with.
02:13And so that's how I met Joe, over a bucket of raw meat.
02:16Handing him raw meat to put on his bamboo sticks.
02:19I love the camels, but they are so greedy.
02:22So this summer, every year actually, I have the same problem.
02:26It's the camels trying to steal the pigs' food.
02:28The pigs live in a copse in the middle of the camel's field.
02:31And there's fencing around the copse, obviously to stop the pigs getting out.
02:35Equally to stop the camels getting in.
02:37And I caught them.
02:40So I put some food in, but probably not quite far enough away.
02:44Camels have incredibly long necks.
02:46They can reach so far in.
02:47And the pigs were eating their food.
02:49And I caught a camel with his mouth wide open like that.
02:53Gripped the back of a pig.
02:55Squeezed.
02:56Pig squealed, as you can imagine.
02:58All its friends ran round.
02:59Started snorting at the camel.
03:01Camel looked at them.
03:02Squeezed a bit more.
03:03Pig squealed a bit more.
03:05All pigs ran off.
03:06Camel, yes, here's my food.
03:09Bad, bad creatures.
03:11Anyway, there we go.
03:12That's camels for you.
03:13Dare not.
03:14They're wonderful creatures.
03:15All animals are wonderful.
03:17Animals are the most wonderful creatures.
03:20People underestimate animals.
03:21Like that little dog.
03:22I mean, they've got a brain.
03:23They think.
03:24And the only way to treat any animals is to treat them well.
03:29And if you treat them the same as you'd expect to be treated yourself,
03:32you won't have any problems.
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