Photo credit: Jennifer Stuber

Many of you have asked, “Why isn’t Spandy Andy at Marineland Canada?” The honest truth is; I would have loved to return to Marineland, but the owner had very poor business practice.

I’m not even sure he saw my performance in his park all season, but I know he didn’t care about the staff or animals. He had one priority: make money. I signed a contract stating I wouldn’t talk about Marineland, but my old supervisor, Phil Demers recently quit and spoke publicly, inspiring me to do the same.

Not only were the staff dispensable in the eyes of owner John Holer, but the animals were too. Watch a video of the condition of several animals I worked with (below). The green water you see in the video is from the summer I performed at Marineland. I had to swim in it!

My coworkers wanted change, but it was all about cutting costs. They couldn’t keep experienced staff because no one was willing to work in these conditions for too long. There was no healthy future for Marineland. Now that the ex-employees are speaking out, I am to. Please sign this petition created by Zoocheck Canada and Phil Demers: http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/save-marineland-s-animals. We can force Marineland to put more into the facility and protecting the animals.

RIP Tide, the sealion kissing me in the photo above.