20 November 2011
 Bikini wax and pedicure: Louanne Grasmeder sees to the saltwater crocodile (Picture: Rex) |
Business at the spa in Darwin, Australia, has clearly nose-dived judging by this exercise in bad taste.
Perhaps it’s the hair attached to the waxing strip that gives the game away or the fact that the poor creature is wearing a protective bikini bottom.
Either way, it’s not clear how staff managed to persuade the saltwater crocodile to co-operate.
But the bigger question has to be who on earth thought this was a good idea?
The spa’s business manager Louanne Grasmeder said: ‘Breeding season is just around the corner. We want her to look her best for the breeding season.
‘In the wet season, the male crocodiles are fighting it out over breeding sites and female crocodiles will be extremely territorial.’
Then spa staff member Jamillah Allen apparently quipped: ‘The lengths we go for great training.’
Of course. How stupid of us. What a juvenile crocodile really needs is a pedicure, waxing and skin exfoliation. The poor croc was probably wondering what it had done to deserve being treated like this by two dumb animals.
However, one northern territorian was not taken in by their ‘story’.
‘They all look like they’re about to do something...smile and ask what the heck am I doing here?’ he commented on a local paper’s website.
A clue to why the staff resorted to such desperate measures may lie in the fact that the spa has recently changed hands.
It’s enough to reduce animal lovers to tears.
