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CNN Live At Daybreak
Giraffe Missing from Girault Farm in Texas
Aired January 08, 2002 - 05:58 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And finally, it's 10 feet tall, easy to spot but very hard to find and it's missing without a trace in South Texas.
Reporter Marcy Martinez of our affiliate KGBT explains.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MARCY MARTINEZ, KGBT-TV REPORTER (voice-over): It's been six days since she's been missing.
HOWARD GIRAULT, FARM OWNER: Fence is all good and the gates was all locked, but she's been gone since last Wednesday.
MARTINEZ: She is a $30,000 giraffe, one of three at the Girault Farm in Bayview where all types of exotic animals roam. The disappearance of the adult female giraffe remains a mystery since all the gates were shut when owner Howard Girault left the farm and still locked the next day.
GIRAULT: We've been four or five miles square around here looking for her with several pickups and people on horses and all looking, and we haven't found a trace of her.
MARTINEZ: Although the giraffes are over 10 feet tall, they don't have the ability to jump or walk over these fences which leaves the possibility she was stolen.
GIRAULT: Somebody picked her up and put her in a trailer and took off with her, which that could reasonably be done. You could tranquilize her and she'll lay down in a trailer. She's very gentle.
MARTINEZ: Gentle and worth a lot of money which makes her a high-price commodity. And with this in mind, Girault doesn't seem optimistic about her return.
GIRAULT: Don't have any hope of getting her back. I think they've already got her maybe across the river to Mexico or back up in the hill country.
In Bayview, Marcy Martinez.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: Very strange story.
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